Only 333 pieces are to be manufactured.
-Unbelievable now, when Alfa Romeo first released the Type G1 race car in 1921, the market was of little interest and no one bought it in its native Italy.
-In terms of design, 49-year-old chief designer Giuseppe Melosi only modified the existing model line, but the chassis is based on in-house development from 1914, right above the front axle. It had a new 6.3-liter 6-cylinder engine in place. With 70 hp performance, the Alfa Romeo G1 was able to achieve top speeds of almost 140 km/h.
-All these performance data were ideal conditions for successful sales.
-However, since the production started in 1921 and the completion of two prototype cars in 1920, the number of sales did not increase, the production was discontinued in the same year, and 50 cars left in the factory were left in Italy. I was able to find a buyer in Australia without.
-It was the first and only event in history that none of the products produced were purchased in their own country and then exported to only one country.
-But exports to Australia later brought a lucky coincidence. Miraculously, one race car with chassis number 6018 remained in Queensland for decades.
-From 1964, a massive restoration of the forgotten race car began, eventually taking a full 10 years.
-Sold to a New Zealand Alfa Romeo importer in 2007, handed to a collector in California in 2012, and was priced at $445,000 in auction six years later.
-Chassis number 6018 is the only surviving Alfa Romeo G1 as far as we know.
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