1932 Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Monza Full Throttle Test Drive and Tune 

Pre-1935 grand prix cars were usually RHD because most circuits ran clockwise and the driver's weight made a difference. Later in the decade, single-seaters came to dominate.Faster, of course, but the days of driving your Alfa, Benz, or Bentley (even if only in your dreams) to the track, winning the race, and driving home for supper were gone.

Yes , that wobbly warbly heterodyning V8 , sounds so unbalanced compared to this

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I'm assuming that as well, but I'm not worried. Their replicas are superb, from what I've heard, and I'd happily drive one. 🍀❤️

I thought so too. Though I am caught off guard by those scrutineering stickers (those coloured round stickers slightly obscured by the steering wheels in some of the views). Those, by the looks of things were from Monaco GP Historique, an event that only admit original cars, or at the very least, recreations with substantial original parts and carried the identity of an earlier, no longer extant, car. Then I realized that the scrutineering stickers were for different race classes. The Monza should've been to the Grid A (for pre-war GP and Voiturette cars), and those stickers were from different grids. There's one Grid A sticker, two Grid B (if I remember correctly this is for the 1950s Formula 1 cars) stickers, and one C (1950s sportscars) and one D (1.5 L F1 cars from 19561-65). So I'm guessing the owner of the car actually owned original cars of different ages, but for some reason, put their scrutineering stickers on the replica Monza at some later date...

Ballpark figures (but other people will know better) genuine approaching USD $1m (possibly more) but pur sang pattern replicas (just as good) significantly less than half that.

Genuine are costing way over $1M, I would say in the magnitude of 10 times that…

Thanks, Steve, this is an exciting car to work with. Having worked on traditional cars all my life, this one is a bit different to dial in. It runs best with 40 to 45 degrees of total advance. Seems high for me, however, this is only a 6 to 1 compression ratio. Perhaps these cars were designed to have lots of total advance? I would think pulling timing out when under boost makes sense to me, however, it seems to want more timing under full load and high RPM. This fine machine really comes alive at 4000 RPM.

@@GregQuirin different combustion Chambers Like different amount of timing, closed chamber big block Chevys like over 40° probably 42 or 43 and the small block Mopar it's like between 34 and 36, the only real way to tell is put it on the dyno and move the timing around a bit

@@GregQuirin hello Greg. Who is the driver?? He owns a lot of historical cars : wonderful Lancia D24, this Alfa (142 hp).

Depends on the gearing. With the tallest gearing it would do around 140mph.

@@JCG-Alfamonza like a.modern sports car!

Reliability is important, when you're driving a car like this on a public road. Also, I'm almost positive this is a Pur Sang replica.