Sunday, May 20, 2012

THE MILLE MIGLIA CAR RACE


The Mille Miglia is a 1000 mile race from Brescia Italy to Rome and back to Brescia.  It is a race on public roads meaning you can drive it on your own if you would like.  From 1927 to 1957 it was a high speed sports car race.  In '57 a car left the road and killed several spectators and the driver.  Since then the race has been a ralley.  The 1000 miles is driven in 3 days in timed segments.  They may give you 3 hours to go 150 miles, and your score is determined by how close you come to exactly 3 hours.  All the cars must have been manufactured between 1927 and 1957.  It a collection cars ranging from Fiat 500's worth a few thousand dollars to Ferrari and Mercedes Benz sports cars worth millions of dollars.  If you like classic sports cars this is the greatest sports car show on the planet.  I am a little obsessive but I took over 1000 pictures of these cars, but edited down to 90 or so for the blog.  There were over 400 cars entered, with more than half of them over 70 years old.  The winner of this 1000 mile race, in three days, was 78 years old.  When you look at the cars below think about how comfortable they would be on ordinary two lane roads (no interstates) for 1000 miles.  Some of the last pictures are a little blurry because I was losing the light after the sun started going down.  When you lose the light you loose depth of field.  

'56 Ferrari


'52 Aston Martin

'57 Maserati 
'56 Fiat

'53 Osca

'56 Mercedes

'52 Siata

'52 Jaguar C type



'52 Aston Martin

'53 Triumph 

'54 Porsche

'54 Arnolt Bristol

57 Austin Healey

55 Alfa Romeo Giulietta

54 GILCO PANHARD

FIAT 508

53 FERRARI

51 NASH HEALEY

55 MERCEDES

54 FIAT V8

56 FERRARI

32 MG C TYPE

55 PORSCHE LIKE JAMES DEAN DIED IN
53 OSCA
BEAUTIFUL 56 MASERATI


53 MECEDES

56 AC

50 PATRIARCA

29 OM

29 BNC MONZA


28 ALFA

27 BUGGATI

27 OM

33 FIAT

SUPERCHARGED 30 BENTLEY ONE OF THE GREAT CARS

27 MERCEDES SSK MILLIONS OF DOLLARS RACING 1000 MILE

33 FIAT 508

29 CHRYSLER ONE OF A FEW AMERICAN CARS

33 FORD V8

31 FORD MODEL A

29 MERCEDES SSK

29 SSK

33 MG K3

33 ASTON MARTIN

33 ASTON MARTIN

THE WINNER OF THE RACE 33 ALFA ROMEO 1500  GS

34 LAGONDA RAPIDE

39 BMW MILIE MIGLIA COUPE

ODD LOOKING 40 FIAT 1100 COUPE

38 FIAT

38 LANCIA

36 RILEY

37 BMW 328

39 BMW 328

38 BMW

37 BMW 328 MILIE MIGLIA TOURING ROADSTER

36 MG PB

38 BMW KAMM COUPE

48 FIAT ZANUSSI

48 CISITALIA

48 FIAT RG1    A TIGHT FIT FOR 1000 MILES

48 CISITALIA

46 MASERATI MONOFORO

49 BRISTOL

48 ALFA 2500

47 CISITALIA

48 HEALEY WESTLAND

49 VERITAS

49 MASERATI

50 PATRIARCA
47 FIAT 500

51 BANDINI

51 SIATA

52 ERMINI

51 SIATA
52 PORSCHE


50 GILCO

51 ASTON MARTIN

50 ABRATH

51 FERRARI

50 JAGUAR XK

50 HEALEY

51 ALFA ROMEO MATTA (JEEP LOOK A LIKE)

53 FERRARI

50 HEALEY SILVERSTONE

52 FERRARI AMERICA

52 ALFA ROMEO 2500 SS


54 JAGUAR MARK VII


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