230 vintage motorbikes & cars destroyed in museum fire

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230 vintage motorbikes & cars destroyed in museum fire

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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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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
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.

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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.

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Maybe @Michael Ferner might be able to make a better job of IDing the Alfa than I did. :wink: 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! :sad:

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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