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It looks like the ultimate sports car, and the pounds1.4 million it achieved at Bonhams' fine Goodwood Festival of Speed sale this month suggests that those in the know and in the money felt the same way about it.
It was a 1932 Alfa Romeo 8C-2300 Spider with its coachwork by Carrozzeria Zagato. This was perhaps the finest of the pre-war Italian road-cum-racing cars, and this one combined the shorter, rarer and most desirable Monza length Alfa chassis - a wheelbase of 2.65m, compared with Corto's 2.75m and Lungo's 3.1m - with a 2.3- litre straight-eight supercharged engine.See the full content of this document
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Would You Dare Drive a Car That Cost You Pounds1.4m?
Add the gloriously rakish lines of Zagato's classical Spider two- seat coachwork and you had the epitome of Italian style, flair and automotive achievement in the early Th...
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