Throughout history, many heads of state have taken an interest in the automobile. After all, despite their unique line of work, and apart from some strange, even unpleasant characters, they are other “common” people like everyone else.
Benito Mussolini nothing yet ordinary. The guy who brought Italian fascism to life in the 1920s and who related his fate to adolf Hitler and Gerguy’s Nazism in the 1930s belongs to the category of those ancient figures we’d rather forget.
However, it is our duty to remember. Even if nothing can make Il Duce friendly to us today, knowing that he had an Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 from 1930, and that he even drove in a career, well, that almost does Array.. Human.
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In any case, a car he bought new and delivered to him on January 13, 1930, will gain advantages from a full recovery to bring him back to life. And that will require some kind of resuscitation work. The style is in a state of complex deterioration, especially since at that time, there was little doubt in modifying it to make it lighter and that it can be more automotive in the race.
And you may think that nine decades later, the pieces fit a little weird …
Benito Mussolini did not own the car for a long time. He replaced several hands in the early 1930s and, however, was discovered in 1937 as the owner of a Renato Tigillo insurance. Tigillo eventually moved to Eritrea, an African country that had been under Italian rule since 1936. When the Alpha was no longer active, it was not preserved, as evidenced through the blows, peeling paint and rust that can be noticed in those images. His track was later lost, and even today we don’t know the call of the owner, who, of course, might not need his call to be related to Il Duce.
After decades of negligence, the car will now be treated with a wonderful car. The renovation paintings were entrusted to one of the most productive companies on the estate, the British company Thornley Kelham. Society, however, has a Herculean task ahead of it. The headlights, wings and beam wheels have disappeared and the inside is worn out.
Simon Thornley, co-founder of the automotive recovery company, admitted that the 6C 1750 is the biggest challenge he has faced, especially since photographs from the model’s body era, built through Stabilimenti Farina, are rare.
But he clearly values it, in his opinion. “Such a vital piece of the history of the automobile must be preserved,” he said in a statement. Few would dispute it.