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 one of a very small number of surviving supercharged MMS examples.

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

Period competition history

1928 Mille Miglia

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

The car was registered to de Giovanni in Torino on 3 July 1928.

1929 Mille Miglia

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

The car had been sold to Scampini in November 1928 and registered in Varese.

Possible 1930 Mille Miglia participation

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

Other recorded period competition includes:

Alessandria sports car race (1928)
Tolentino–Colle di Paterno hill climb (1930, possibly 1st in 1500cc class)

Pre-war ownership history

Ugo de Giovanni (Torino) – 1928
Elio Scampini (Varese) – 1928
Gualtiero Natali
Conte Anselmo Anselmi (Arcevia, Ancona)

The car was recorded in Italy as late as 1937.

Libyan and American history

The car was exported to Tripoli (Libya) by an English officer, Arthur Webb.

In 1958 it was sold in Tripoli to Captain Henderson. Period photographs and Libyan documentation are recorded.

The car later moved to the United States, including ownership in Indiana.

In circa 1969–1970 it passed through dealer John Delamater and was traded to Luigi Chinetti in exchange for a Ferrari 365 GTB/4 (Daytona). The transaction is described in Brock Yates’ book Cannonball.

In 1978 Chinetti sold the car to Dan Marguiles (UK).

Subsequent owners included:

Mr Bayliss (UK; Mille Miglia Retrospectives)
Sold via Martin Chisholm (2004)
Current Italian owner (act*