Alfa Romeo 8C 2900
One of the fastest sports cars of the 1930s, with a racing engine and a body by Touring.
The engine came from Alfa Romeo's racing cars, and the 8C 2900 won the Mille Miglia three years running. Touring gave it some of the most beautiful bodies of the decade.
Materials: Steel chassis, aluminium body; supercharged eight-cylinder engine
Manufacture: Made in Milan in some thirty examples.
The long bonnet and the rounded front wings that sweep down to the rear.
The narrow, pointed grille.