RARE ALFA ROMEO C.I.J RACING TOY, RED COLOR, TYPE GRAND PRIX ACF DE FRANCE, WITH ITS REISSUED BOX

Splendid ALFA ROMEO toy representing the P2 of the Grands Prix, the famous cloverleaf that made the history of the brand.

This toy is one of the most important CIJ toys and the rarest, the most luxurious in this red color, it is in a very good state of conservation, mechanical engine in working order with its original key, its suspensions and its crank

History of the CIJ Company

Faced with the success of the Compagnie Industrielle du Juillet and the need to expand, Fernand Migault, a good salesman and manager, joined forces with his cousin Marcel Gourdet, an excellent technician, who ran a boiler workshop, route d'Ousson in Briare, and thus founded the Establishments Migault S.A. in 1927.

The Alfa Romeo P2 is a car produced by the Italian manufacturer Alfa Romeo between 1924 and 1930. This model remains as an icon of automobile production in the 1920s, just like the Bugatti T35.

the P2 is the first car fitted with an Alfa Romeo-designed 8-cylinder engine. This car is the first creation of the engineer Vittorio Jano, then recruited by Enzo Ferrari, then test driver at Alfa Romeo, which he literally tears away from Fiat to strengthen the Alfa design office after the bitter failure of the Alfa Romeo P1.

The car brilliantly won the first Manufacturers' (or Constructors') World Championship in 1925 -the first version of the current Formula 1 World Championship-, notably with Antonio Ascari, who died on the Circuit de Montlhéry near Paris on July 26. (in 1925 Ascari won in Belgium and Gastone Brilli-Peri in Italy, two races entered in this championship).

Despite the change in regulations in 1925, the Alfa Romeo P2 won, without any change in its design, between 1924 and 1930, fourteen races including the Targa Florio.

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