1937 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B
Touring Superleggera · approx 43 built
Authorship
The car
Power180 bhp
Engine2.9L supercharged straight-eight
Production runapprox 43
The supercharged prewar aristocrat, a peak of 1930s engineering and coachbuilt beauty.
Finding one
Typical
£13,000,000
for a good example
Range
£8,000,000 to £19,000,000
Body style (Touring Lungo Spider most prized), competition or Mille Miglia history, and Pebble Beach class pedigree.
For sale now
rarely any (fewer than 45 ever built)
public listings
rarea few a decade · Last notable sale: 8C 2900B Lungo Spider by Touring, about £15.6M ($19.8M), RM Sotheby's Monterey 2016; a recovered stolen Lungo Spider headlined Gooding's Pebble Beach sale in 2024 at a similar level.
Market figures are indicative, drawn from public auction and listing data; they guide, they do not appraise.
Parts and support
Nothing is off the shelf; restoration depends entirely on a small circle of elite pre-war Alfa specialists.
SpecialistsDino Cognolato (coachwork)Jim Stokes WorkshopsEgon Zweimuller (chassis and mechanicals)Alfa Romeo ClassicheBlakeney Motorsport
In the network
Concoursio is a living public record. It references formal provenance (chassis, registries, sale history); it does not certify it. This is a seed record and its details are being verified.