6C3000 CM

[gtv2000]

Thank you very much Tomas, this is exactly what I had asked for.

Now the crash as origin of the rebody with Zagato is evidenced.

But the other theory that he wasn't comfortable with the coupé body isn't wrong either, as it looks like the damage from the Helsinki crash was by no way a sufficient reason to discard the Colli body.

[Tomas Karlsson]

That's right. Bonnier didn't like the cramped and noisy coupé.

[Boudewijn]

Some more pics of #00123.

[Boudewijn]

Some more pics of #00125.

[dretceterini]

Excellent detailing photos for modelers.

[Tomas Karlsson]

I saw that somebody called the photographer and Bonnier's Mille Miglia co-driver "Bolle Boesen". There is no such name as "Bolle" in Sweden!
His name is Bo Boësen. You could call him "Bosse" wich is a sort of common variant. Just like "Ronald" in Britain becomes "Ronnie".
I have visited him a couple of times. A very charming man, who bought a Giulietta from Bonnier and raced at Avus in '55. Bo accompanied Bonnier when he orderd the Zagato cars.

[Tomas Karlsson]

Boësen tried the 6C3000 CM on Skarpnäck late in 1955. He said it was the best car that he ever had driven.
"It took you where you pointed it and you could control it very easily with the accelerator."
But the car wasn't good on long straights where it started to wander. Fangio confirmed that, when he was reunited with the car at Kristianstad. And Kvarnström wasn't at all confident with the car on the long straights at Råbelöv. He thought the car's wheelbase was too short. The short wheelbase and good steering made it an excellent for ice-racing though.

[dretceterini]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tomas Karlsson Boësen tried the 6C3000 CM on Skarpnäck late in 1955. He said it was the best car that he ever had driven. "It took you where you pointed it and you could controll it very easily with the accelerator." But the car wasn't good on long straights where it started to wander. Fangio confirmed that, when he was reunited with the car at Kristianstad. And Kvarnström wasn't at all confident with the car on the long straights at Råbelöv. He thought the car's wheelbase was too short. The short wheelbase and good steering made it an excellent for ice-racing though.

[Tomas Karlsson]

Quote:

Originally Posted by dretceterini Interesting, because the cars had the highest top speeds on the Mulsanne straight in 1953.

[Tomas Karlsson]

The figures I have seen are 245km/h for the Alfas on Mulsanne. But they were not fastest! The Cunninghams did 248. On the other hand, if Fangio were right, the Alfas could have gone faster (in theory).

[AlfaRonny]

According to this website : http://www.alfacybersite.com/BRSpide...#anchor1469899 there was even a Spider prototype build on the 6C 3000 CM chassis:



The following four bodies were all clothed on this 1952 6C 3000 CM chassis.

[AlfaRonny]

Here are the bodies

[AlfaRonny]

Isn't this spider built on the missing chassis ?

[CarterHendricks]

Quote:

Originally Posted by AlfaRonny According to this website : http://www.alfacybersite.com/BRSpide...#anchor1469899 there was even a Spider prototype build on the 6C 3000 CM chassis: The following four bodies were all clothed on this 1952 6C 3000 CM chassis.

[dretceterini]

Carter:

Biba, who owns/runs the Alfa cyber site is a good guy, and does excellent refurbishing/restoration work on cars like Alfettas and 105s. He is NOT a historian, but I think he is well intend. There are MANY so called "Alfa History Sites" that have poor information.

In today's world it seems that only the Dutch magazine Het, this site and the Atlas Nostalga site have reasonable discussions about Alfa's history. Most of the stuff in the "general public, classic car" magazines isn't very good.