Re: Rosso Bianco Museum (was:Fangio with a broken tie-rod

[jorn.bereng@domain.elided]

Hello everybody,

In Digest # 959, John H. wrote:

 Right on all counts except one; he didn't lose a few places, just one, to
a
 Ferrari. It was 1953, in a 6C 3000 CM, arguably the last great classic
 sports-racer Alfa built even if its brief competition record fell short of
 its promise. 3.5 liters, 248 hp, backbone spaceframe, DeDion rear end with
 inboard brakes, four-leading-shoe fronts (the last gasp of the drum
brake),
 in a perfectly balanced car with the same wheelbase and track as a Duetto,
 but appreciably lighter, shorter and narrower. One of the six built later
 served as the base for a series of show-car bodies by Pininfarina, the
last
 of which was in fact the styling base for the Duetto; it now resides in
the
 Rosso-Bianco museum, a good reason for the duettisti to visit
Ashaffenburg.

I agree that no true Alfisti should miss the Rosso Bianco museum if you are
in the Frankfurt area in Germany.
Aschaffenburg is about 50 kms east of Frankfurt.  I visited it this summer.
They've got about 200 sports and
racing cars, there's a strong Italian bias, but it isn't an all Italian
museum.  There are seven different Alfa 33
sports racers, a 33 Stradale, lots of Zagato bodied cars (i.e. SZ, TZ,
TZ-2) and the wild-looking 6 C 3000
(it was parked next to a Pegaso Z-102, which was even wilder), a 6C1750 and
a couple of other pre-war
sports Alfas including an early RL.

I could go on and on, but no true Alfisti should miss the Rosso Bianco
museum if you have the chance to go
there.

Jorn Bereng
Oslo, Norway

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