1950 Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 Super Sport Villa D’Este
Touring’s design for the 6C 2500 Super Sport Villa d’Este first appeared at the 1949 Concorso Internazionale d’Eleganza at Villa d’Este on Lake Como, where it took the Gran Premio Referendum (the people’s choice award).
The coachwork featured a tapered rear end, rounded rocker panel edges, a flatter beltline trailing from the wheel arches, small rear-quarter windows, and decorative hood lines curving from the foglamp areas toward the A-pillars.
Construction followed Touring’s Superleggera method, with aluminum body panels formed over a framework of small-diameter steel tubes.
Impressed by the reception, Alfa Romeo approved a limited production run under the Villa d’Este name, generally believed to total 36 coupes, with a small number of similarly styled open cars also completed.
All were built on the shortened 2,700 mm (106.3-inch) Super Sport chassis and completed before 6C 2500 production ended in 1952.
Power came from a triple-carbureted 2.5-liter inline-six producing approximately 110 horsepower, paired with a four-speed manual transmission. Curb weight was roughly 2,900 pounds (1,315 kg), depending on specification.
Because each car was hand-built, no two examples are identical, giving each its own individual character within the model’s shared design language.
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