RARE ALFA ROMEO P2 RACING TOY C.I.J IVORY COLOR, TYPE GRAND PRIX ACF DE FRANCE
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 from 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 automobile is the first creation of the engineer Vittorio Jano, subsequently recruited by Enzo Ferrari, then test driver at Alfa Romeo, whom he literally snatched from Fiat to strengthen the Alfa design office after the bitter failure of the Alfa Romeo P1.
The car brilliantly won the first World Championship for manufacturers (or constructors) in 1925 - 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 registered in this championship).
Despite the change in regulations that occurred in 1925, the Alfa Romeo P2 won, without any change in its design, between 1924 and 1930, fourteen races including the Targa Florio.
This toy is one of the most important CIJ Toys and the rarest, the most luxurious in this IVORY color, the favorite color of the great Italian fascist pilots. It is in a very good state of conservation, mechanical engine in working order with its original key, Michelin type tires 2nd Generation of the toy
History of the CIJ Company
Faced with the success encountered by the Compagnie Industrielle dutoy 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, route d'Ousson in Briare, and thus founded the Établissements Migault S.A. in 1927.
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