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The Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 Flying Star by Touring Milano.
The Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 Flying Star was specifically created by Touring of Milan for the 1931 Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este. Also fitted to a Fiat and Isotta Fraschini chassis, the ‘Flying Star’ design featured beautiful flowing lines, highlighted by the split running boards. Unique to the Alfa Romeo was the competition inspired, one-piece windshield that resembled the two small windscreens used by the competition 6C 1750s. Finished in a spectacular off-white throughout, the Alfa Romeo ‘Flying Star’ was entered in the Concorso d’Eleganza by model and loyal Touring customer Josette Pozzo. No judge could resist their combined beauty and the striking 6C 1750 was named best of show and received the ‘Coppa d’Oro’ award.
The Flying Star is a type of body created by Touring Superleggera introduced at the 1931 Milan Auto Show on a Isotta Fraschini 8B chassis which gained a great success. It was also adapted to other chassis maintaining the same basic settings. The trademark elements of this kind of bodywork were basically a thick chrome strip on the side that starts from the radiator, runs along the entire car forming a ‘V’ at the doors and descends on the tail.
