A 1953 Alfa Romeo 1900C Dash Supergioiello with each coachbuilt bodywork and a rallying historical past shall be auctioned off by U.Ok.-based on-line public sale website Automotive & Traditional September 17.

The compact 1900 was Alfa’s first postwar manufacturing mannequin, launching in sedan type in 1950. It marked a pivot away from the exclusivity of prewar Alfas towards extra reasonably priced fashions that would assist get Italians again on the street because the nation rebuilt from World Warfare II.

1953 Alfa Romeo 1900C Dash Supergioiello (picture by way of Automotive & Traditional)

The 1900C Dash coupe adopted the sedan in 1951, and Italian coachbuilders Pininfarina, Zagato, Touring, and Ghia reached designed their very own bodywork for the two-door. The Supergioiello (“gioiello” means “jewel” in Italian) was Ghia’s design.

Ghia produced bodywork for 18-20 vehicles, however solely six have been accomplished in keeping with the public sale itemizing. The automobile up for public sale was allegedly the final one accomplished, rolling out of the manufacturing unit in 1953 and being delivered to an proprietor in Spain in 1954, and one among solely three identified to outlive right now.

1953 Alfa Romeo 1900C Dash Supergioiello (picture by way of Automotive & Traditional)

Gumersindo Garcia Fernandez used the Alfa as a rally automobile, getting into it within the 1955 Monte Carlo Rally and different occasions. A subsequent proprietor, Salvador Ros, additionally rallied the Alfa between 1958 and 1961, after which the automobile was retired from competitors and saved out of the general public eye.

The Alfa reappeared in 1990 within the palms of a collector, earlier than passing to a different collector. In some unspecified time in the future it was restored to its manufacturing unit look, and has coated simply 48 miles since, the public sale home claims. The automobile is anticipated to promote for round 640,000 British kilos, or about $797,000 at present alternate charges. That appreciable sum buys a rally automobile very completely different from the winged sedans and hatchbacks that prowl right now’s rally levels.