SUPERB IVORY-COLOR ALFA ROMEO P2 C.I.J. WITH ITS LARGE ORGINAL CARDBOARD BOX, STYLE OF THE 1928 ACF FRANCE GRAND PRIX.
his toy is one of the most important CIJ toys, the rarest, the most luxurious, in this IVORY color, one of the most sought-after!
It is in an EXCEPTIONAL state of preservation, with a working mechanical engine and Michelin-type tires, the 2nd generation of the toy.
The famous cloverleaf 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 an icon of 1920s automobile production, along with the Bugatti T35.
The P2 is the first car equipped with an 8-cylinder engine designed by Alfa Romeo. This automobile was the first creation of engineer Vittorio Jano, later recruited by Enzo Ferrari, then a test driver at Alfa Romeo, whom he literally pried away from Fiat to strengthen the Alfa design office after the resounding failure of the Alfa Romeo P1.
The car brilliantly won the first World Manufacturers' Championship in 1925—the first version of the current Formula 1 World Championship—with Antonio Ascari, who died at the Montlhéry Circuit near Paris on July 26th (in 1925, Ascari won in Belgium and Gastone Brilli-Peri in Italy, two races included in this championship).
Despite the rule changes in 1925, the Alfa Romeo P2 won, without any changes to its design, fourteen races between 1924 and 1930, including the Targa Florio. History of the CIJ Company
Faced with the success of the Compagnie Industrielle du Jouet and the need to expand, Fernand Migault, a skilled salesman and manager, joined forces with his cousin Marcel Gourdet, an excellent technician who ran a boilermaking workshop on Route d'Ousson in Briare, and founded Établissements Migault S.A. in 1927.
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