Editing Alfa Romeo 6C/Chassis Registry/1500/0231325

= Alfa Romeo 6C 1500 MMS chassis 0231.325 =

'''Alfa Romeo 6C 1500 MMS chassis 0231.325''' is a 1928 Alfa Romeo 6C 1500 Mille Miglia Speciale with documented participation in the 1928 and 1929 Mille Miglia. The car is a supercharged example and one of a very small number of surviving MMS variants.

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== Factory specification ==

* Year: 1928
* Model: [[Alfa Romeo 6C 1500]]
* Variant: 6C 1500 MMS (Mille Miglia Speciale)
* Type: Spyder/Cabriolet
* Chassis number: 0231.325
* Engine number: 0211.407
* Coachbuilder: Unknown (sometimes attributed to Farina)
* Exterior colour: Red
* Supercharged configuration

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== Certification ==

* FIVA Identity Card No.: 021294

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== Period history ==

Chassis 0231.325 was sold new to Ugo de Giovanni and registered to him in Torino on 3 July 1928.

On 29 April 1928, de Giovanni drove an Alfa Romeo in a sports car race at Alessandria, finishing 17th overall and 4th in class.

=== 1928 Mille Miglia ===

* Driver: Ugo de Giovanni  
* Co-driver: G. Boris  
* Competitor number: 36  
* Result: 39th overall  

The car was described at the time as a “6C 1500 Sport”.

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=== 1929 Mille Miglia ===

The car was sold to Elio Scampini on 26 November 1928 and registered “3556 VA” (Varese) on 30 November 1928.

* Driver: Elio Scampini  
* Co-driver: Bogani  
* Competitor number: 71  
* Result: 17th overall, 3rd in class  

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=== Possible 1930 Mille Miglia ===

An identical MMS entered by Gualtiero Natali (competitor number 105) finished 144th overall in the 1930 Mille Miglia. It is not definitively established whether this was chassis 0231.325.

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=== Other period competition ===

After Natali, the car was sold to Conte Anselmo Anselmi of Arcevia (Ancona) and re-registered “2285 AN”.

Anselmi is believed to have competed with the car in the Tolentino–Colle di Paterno hill climb on 20 July 1930, finishing 1st in the 1500cc sports car class.

The car was recorded as resident in Italy in 1937.

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== Libyan history ==

The car was subsequently exported to Tripoli by an English officer, Arthur Webb.

In 1958 it was sold in Tripoli to Captain Henderson. Period photographs show the car running at speed on an airfield in Tripoli. The Libyan logbook is recorded as surviving.

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== United States history ==

Captain Henderson later took the Alfa to the United States, where it was sold to Richard Henderson of Madison, Indiana.

Circa 1969–1970 it was purchased by sports car dealer John Delamater, who immediately traded it to Luigi Chinetti in exchange for a new Ferrari 365 GTB/4 (Daytona).

The transaction is described in Brock Yates’ book ''Cannonball'', which recounts Chinetti’s decisive agreement to the trade.

In 1978 Chinetti sold the Alfa to dealer Dan Marguiles in the United Kingdom.

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== Later ownership ==

Subsequent owners included:

* Mr Bayliss (United Kingdom), who participated in several Mille Miglia Retrospectives
* Sold via broker Martin Chisholm (2004)
* Current Italian owner

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== Modern competition history ==

The car has competed in:

* Mille Miglia Retrospective – 2005
* Mille Miglia Retrospective – 2006
* Mille Miglia Retrospective – 2007 (car number 33)
* Mille Miglia Retrospective – 2008

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== Restoration ==

While in current Italian ownership, the car has been maintained by specialist Galassi and has undergone a comprehensive mechanical rebuild in recent years.

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== Historical significance ==

Chassis 0231.325 is:

* A documented period Mille Miglia participant (1928 and 1929)
* A supercharged Mille Miglia Speciale
* A chassis with continuous international history (Italy, Libya, USA, UK, Italy)
* One of very few surviving MMS examples

Of the original production run, only a small number of MMS variants are believed to survive, with even fewer retaining supercharged configuration.

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== Registry classification ==

* Mille Miglia Speciale
* Supercharged example
* Documented period Mille Miglia history
* International provenance
* Actively campaigned in historic events

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== Chassis registry reference ==

See: [[Alfa Romeo 6C 1500 MMS/Chassis Registry]]