VERY RARE ALFA ROMEO P2 C.I.J ORANGE COLOR, TYPE GRAND PRIX ACF DE FRANCE 1928
This toy is one of the most important CIJ Toys, the rarest, the most luxurious in this most sought-after ORANGE color !
It is in an EXCEPTIONAL state of conservation, mechanical engine in working order, Michelin type tires 2nd Generation of the toy
The famous clover that made the history of the brand.
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 of the 1920s in the same way as the Bugatti T35.
The P2 is the first car equipped with an 8-cylinder engine of Alfa Romeo design. This car was the first creation of engineer Vittorio Jano, who was later recruited by Enzo Ferrari, then a test driver at Alfa Romeo, whom he literally tore away from Fiat to strengthen the Alfa design office after the bitter failure of the Alfa Romeo P1.
The car brilliantly won the first World Manufacturers' Championship (or constructors) in 1925 - the first version of the current Formula 1 World Championship -, notably with Antonio Ascari, who died on the Montlhéry Circuit 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.
History of the CIJ Company
Given the success of the Compagnie Industrielle du Jouet 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 boilermaking workshop on the Ousson road in Briare, and thus founded Établissements Migault S.A. in 1927.
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