History of Alfa Romeo 8C[1924 - 1932]

In 1924, Vittorio Jano created his aboriginal beeline eight butt agent for Alfa Romeo, the 1987 cc P2, with accepted crankcase and four argent animate two butt blocks, which won the aboriginal World Championship anytime in 1925. Albeit it was a straight-8, the Alfa Romeo 8C appellation was not used.
The Alfa Romeo 8C engine, aboriginal entered at the 1931 Mille Miglia alley chase through Italy, had a accepted crankcase, now with two admixture four butt blocks, which additionally congenital the heads. There was no abstracted head, and no arch gasket to fail, but this fabricated valve aliment added difficult. A axial accessory belfry collection the aerial camshafts, superchargers and ancillaries. As far as assembly cars are concerned, the Alfa Romeo 8C agent powered two models, the 8C2300 (1931-1935) and the alike added attenuate and big-ticket 8C2900 (1936-1941). The aboriginal archetypal was the 1931 8C 2300, a advertence to the car's 2.3 L (2336 cc) engine, initially advised as a antagonism car, but absolutely produced in 188 units additionally for alley use. While the antagonism adaptation of the 8C 2300 Spider, apprenticed by Tazio Nuvolari won the 1931 and 1932 Targa Florio chase in Sicily, the 1931 Italian Grand Prix achievement at Monza gave the "Monza" name to the accompanying seater GP car, a beneath adaptation of the Spider. The Alfa Romeo branch generally added the name of contest won to the name of a car.