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eBay Watch: Alfa Romeo 8C

The greatest Alfa Romeo.

By Gunnar Heinrich | IMG via eBay

CAN we place a figure on an object of such breathtaking beauty?

Is it possible to quantify rolling art so stunningly perfect?

Or consider that with the heart of a Ferrari, this car is so instantly classic as to render all other exotics trite?

Yes, such considerations can be quantified and, indeed, they have been.

From the Show-Me state, St. Louis Motorsports has posted this garage principessa (55 miles on the odometer), a supreme Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione on eBay motors with four days left on the auction.

It’s yours if you’ll show them their buy-it-now price of $264,900.

- sigh –

So far, two bids…

[Linked: eBay]

ex. 5) Alfa Romeo Spider

By Gunnar Heinrich

CHE BELLA MACCHINA!

Battista Pininfarina must’ve fallen into a bed of four leafed clovers to have found the inspiration to direct his artistic team to draw the original ’66 Alfa Romeo “Duetto” for the 36th Geneva Auto Show.

Among the longest lived production models ever built, the little Alfa Romeo Spider – locked into US car history by The Graduate – sold in four variants worldwide over the course of three decades. Such was the sweet ‘n chic longevity of the design that two of the last four years proved to be the Spider’s best selling years; 7,106 and 9,073 units in 1990 and 1991, respectively.

Not a fast car by any stretch (the most powerful Spider featured a 130 horsepower straight-four) the small but sexy Alfa featured style and driving charm over mechanical substance to woo a select group of car buyers out of their dollars and lire for 28 years.

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