{"id":8815,"date":"2016-02-04T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/museonicolis.com\/?p=8815"},"modified":"2025-01-15T11:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T10:11:10","slug":"alfa-romeo-1750-gtc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.museonicolis.com\/en\/alfa-romeo-1750-gtc\/","title":{"rendered":"Alfa Romeo, 1931, 6C 1750 GTC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alfa Romeo \u201c6C 1750 GTC\u201d, Carrozzeria Castagna, 1931<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The 6C 1750<\/strong> was the car\u00a0that drove Alfa Romeo to the Olympus of sports car companies. This lucky project, signed by Vittorio Jano,<\/strong> allowed Alfa Romeo to win the 1928, 1929 and 1930 editions of the Mille Miglia. <\/strong>The 6C 1750 Gran Turismo Compressore<\/strong> is the last evolution of this sports yet elegant car; this model was requested by a refined elite of enthusiasts that were able to understand the touring potential of the supercharged engine.
\nThe\u00a0wheelbase<\/strong>\u00a0is\u00a06 cm longer<\/strong> than the previous series, the transmission<\/strong> and the front axle<\/strong> derived from\u00a0the 8C 2300. Pinin Farina, Touring and Castagna, among the others, created for the GTC some of the most beautiful Italian car bodies of the period. It\u2019s interesting to notice the\u00a0finish\u00a0of the folding top<\/strong> and the trunk design.\u00a0<\/strong>It\u2019s a masterpiece, a 4-wheeled sculpture.
\nOne of the elements\u00a0that makes this car unique is the pearlescent paint\u00a0<\/strong>made by mixing nacreous dust\u00a0from crumbled seashells with the paint.<\/p>\n

Luciano Nicolis<\/strong>\u00a0used to say:
\n\u201cThis is an Alfa Romeo 1750 with supercharger, a car that amazed the entire world because it was faster than the Alfa Romeo 3000, the car that kept winning at the time. Then they set the limit to 2000cc and it could not be used anymore. So Alfa Romeo made the supercharged\u00a01750<\/strong>,\u00a0\u00a0that turned out to be faster than the 3000. Our car came\u00a01st in its category\u00a0<\/strong>at the International Concours D’Elegance \u2013\u00a0Louis Vuitton Classic<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 in Parc du Bagatelle. The Alfa Romeo 1750 was considered a very elegant yet fast car. We’re talking about the 30s, 1931 to be precise: the design is still marvelous.\u00a0This 1750 was repainted in the pearlescent original color,<\/strong>\u00a0made by mixing paint with fish scales and seashells’ dust<\/strong>. The headlamps were manually<\/strong>\u00a0adjustable<\/strong>, so much so that they used to say\u00a0\u2013 \u2026raise …lower the headlamps – and you adjusted them with a lever. The engine is a masterpiece too, 6 cylinders with front supercharger<\/strong>\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n

2001 the car won the prestigious \u201cPrix d\u2019Elegance\u201d<\/strong> at international concours \u201cLouis Vuitton Classic \u2013 Parc de Bagatelle<\/strong><\/a>\u201d.
\n2002 Article “La Manovella”.
\n2004\u00a0Shooting Fasoli Gioielli<\/strong><\/a>.
\n2011\u00a0Shooting Ruoteclassiche<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\r\n\r\n \r\n