ALFA 40/60 HP

The ALFA 40/60 HP was both a road car and a racing car made by the Italian manufacturer ALFA, later Alfa Romeo, between 1913 and 1922 and designed, like every ALFA of that time, by Giuseppe Merosi. It used a 6082 cc four cylinder engine with overhead valves that produced 70 PS and gave the road car a top speed of 125 km/h. The 40/60 HP Corsa racing version made 73 PS and reached 137 km/h, and it won its own category in the Parma Berceto hill climb. The First World War interrupted production and development, which resumed briefly afterwards; the postwar Corsa gave 82 PS and about 150 km/h, and Giuseppe Campari won the 1920 and 1921 Mugello races with it.