One of the cars was apparently a 1932 Alfa Romeo 8C 2300, some sources are saying it was the 1936 Mille Miglia winner but I am not so sure. The oldest motorcycle in the collection was from 1894 and apparently two-thirds of the collection were still roadworthy. A great shame, but that's what you get for housing things in a wooden building...
Some photos of the collection here:
https://www.autoblog.com/2021/01/19/aus ... de-2290024
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Very sad when things like this happen. By all accounts a spectacular setting the museum was / is in..... some 2100 metres up in the mountains, accessed by an equally impressive switchback road.PTRACER wrote: ↑3 years ago One of the cars was apparently a 1932 Alfa Romeo 8C 2300, some sources are saying it was the 1936 Mille Miglia winner but I am not so sure. The oldest motorcycle in the collection was from 1894 and apparently two-thirds of the collection were still roadworthy. A great shame, but that's what you get for housing things in a wooden building...
Some photos of the collection here:
https://www.autoblog.com/2021/01/19/aus ... de-2290024
Those pictures and others with a bit more about the place from here:
https://www.wapcar.my/bm/video-muzium-m ... akar-22749
Im not convinced the Alfa pictured is the 1936 Mille Miglia winner...... Still a very expensive bit of kit though. I do know the 1936 Mille was won by an 8C #75.
Edit: Found the results for the 1936 Mille. https://www.racingsportscars.com/result ... 04-05.html
There is a #38 Alfa entered that came 13th and 3rd in class. However that is certainly not the car in the picture at the museum. The results show the #38 car to be an Alfa Romeo 6C 2300 Pescara Spider Touring... a very different car to that pictured.
In fact I found a pic of that car. As you can see, very different.
Maybe @Michael Ferner might be able to make a better job of IDing the Alfa than I did. I think it is an earlier 8C (8C Monza?) to the car that won in '36.... by then the 8C had a more oval grille.)
This is the car destroyed in the museum.
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A great shame, that fire!
About the Alfa, I agree it doesn't look like an 8C-2900, more like one of the Brianza-bodied Scuderia Ferrari cars that won the MM in 1934. I'm not really an expert on sports cars, but I have a lot of stuff about period Alfas, actually too much to go on a wild goose chase - does it mention a chassis number anywhere, I couldn't find any? The licence plate doesn't look genuine, btw. Also, keep in mind that MANY of those cars were "restored" to represent something they never were in the first place!
About the Alfa, I agree it doesn't look like an 8C-2900, more like one of the Brianza-bodied Scuderia Ferrari cars that won the MM in 1934. I'm not really an expert on sports cars, but I have a lot of stuff about period Alfas, actually too much to go on a wild goose chase - does it mention a chassis number anywhere, I couldn't find any? The licence plate doesn't look genuine, btw. Also, keep in mind that MANY of those cars were "restored" to represent something they never were in the first place!
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