£ 15,000

Alfa Romeo 2600 Sprint Coupe - SOLD

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Description:

This car is in auction on The Market website. The auction is LIVE now and finishes on 9th September. Price is a lower estimate.

All bidding takes place on The Market (see photos for web address), plus you will find further text, over 90 photos/video fully illustrating the car and its service history, and the ability to ask questions directly to the seller. The text below is just a brief summary of our full description.

This right-hand-drive Alfa Romeo 2600 Sprint Coupé was first registered in May 1965. Purchased by its former owner as his first competition car, it was well-known to him after having been raced previously for three seasons in HRDC and HSCC events both at home and abroad. This (already considerable) appeal was enhanced by its eligibility for plenty of other historic meetings including the Goodwood Revival, Tour Auto, Top Hat, HRSR, VSCC Pomeroy Trophy and the FIA Historic Championship.

Restored in the mid-1990s to FIA specification, the engine and gearbox were rebuilt subsequently by historic Alfa expert Chris Whelan. Known at the time to be a very reliable car, it had racked up 2nd and 3rd in class at Donington Park in a HRDC race.

Bought by the vendor in April 2019, it would be ideal for the HRDC's new 'Classic Alfa Challenge' series. Offered in good running order and with both FIA and HSCC papers, it also comes with a spares package that includes four wheels and tyres.

Driven by proper racing drivers including Patrick Watts and even Will Hoy, the legendary BTCC racing driver in what is believed to have been his last full race before his tragic death, ‘HHU 768D’ has also competed at Spa, Mas du Clos, Silverstone GP and practically every other track in the UK.

It is, in case we’ve been a bit too subtle, a pukka racing car – and it’ll almost certainly be a cheap one, at that.

Look, this is a proper racing car rather than the sort of pastiche that some folk build just to pose in outside their favourite café, and while the latter might sport mm-perfect shutlines and perfect panel alignment, genuine racing cars are always a little more casual about such matters.

As is the case here. And yet, you shouldn’t be downhearted because racers value chassis stiffness above almost everything else, so they won’t tolerate a rotten bodyshell on either handling or safety grounds, so you need to look past the (easily removable) wonky front bumper and appreciate just how solid this 2600 Sprint is.

This is largely because the body was restored by Phil Elliot back in the day, and then completed by marque specialist Andrew Thorogood. Finished in Alfa Blu Olondaise, the flanks are tight and straight too, and the panels and paint are good. It’s just not going to win any concours prizes anytime soon.

But then it was never designed or built to win the admiration of Panama hat-wearing, pipe-smoking retired army majors wielding clipboards and pens kept safely attached via a bit of string.

No, it was engineered and built to win races, so you’ll find lightweight Perspex windows with sliding hatches, front and rear towing points, an electrical cut-off switch, bullet-shaped door mirrors, a rear rain light, and leather boot and bonnet retaining straps.

Oh, and a cute little offset front numberplate and taped-up front lights. Obviously.

And who wouldn’t love a car that has its front indicators set on top of a chrome bumper and a side exit exhaust?

Nor does it end there because it wears a set of the most glorious alloy wheels you’ve ever seen. TecnoMagnesio wheels of the correct pattern and weighing 3kgs per wheel less than the steel equivalent, they cost around 400 Euros each. They’re also shod with Dunlop cross-ply racing rubber for pitch-perfect looks and the sort of slidey handling we love in our period racing cars.

There is a spare set of wheels and tyres too. Please see the photos for details.

Faults? Well, if you can overlook stonechips and the odd mark (and you should…) there’s nothing here to worry about at all bar a few cracks in the dark blue paintwork.

For much more description and photos see The Market website.

The vehicle can be viewed with us in Abingdon, South Oxfordshire.

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