1938 Alfa Romeo 6C 2300B Mille Miglia Spider Corsa

This 1938 Alfa Romeo 6C 2300B MM Spider Corsa is the first chassis of the series which was built under the supervision of Vittorio Jano for Count Giovanni Lurani of Scuderia Ambrosiana. The car was driven by Lurani's star driver, Franco Cortese in the Italian Sport Nazionale category. Cortese won the Italian championship in 1938 winning seven of the eight races in which he entered and was a class winner in the 1938 Mille Miglia. Sadly, out of the nine racing 6C 2300Bs from the late 1930s only one body has survived. During the war, the car was modified and fitted with a new convertible body by Pinin Farina and many years after the war, its racing pedigree emerged in the 1970s and its then owner John Coombs rebodied it back to its original racing configuration. Its current owner has driven this historic Alfa many times in the Mille Miglia Storica and has finished every time.