Alfa at Le Mans
Alfa won Le Mans 4 times in the 1930s. I have been talking to the people at FIAT about Alfa building a LeMans prototype car for a few years. Alfa is currently racing 156GTAs in the ETCC (European Touring Car Championship). They won the series last year, but are behind BMW this year. The ETCC is planning on consolidating with the BTCC (British Touring Car Championship) in 2004, and Alfa will run in this series. The cars are 2 liters, normally asperated, with squential gearboxes. They weigh about 2300 pounds, and put out around 320 horsepower.
If Alfa does build a prototype car for LeMans and the IMSA/American LeMans series, it probibly won't be until 2006 or 2007, when they plan to return to the US.
Alfa DID build a one-off prototype LeMans car in 1990, but it never ran. This is back when the top class was running 3.5 liter normally asperated motors..An expensive 1/43rd scale hand made resin model exists of this car!
If you are interested in models of obscure cars, there is a conglomerate of companies in France that make expensive 1/43rd (and other) scale hand made resin kits and built ups. The web site is
www.mafma.com You can click on any of the various company logos and see whta that particular company makes. There are more than 1000 different cars available!