Despite befriending, Mussolini and Hitler were also competing in the automotive field. And one of the pieces of Mussolini's ambition had just sold auctioned to 108.45 millions dollars!
This car is the Alfa Romeo 8C-35. This car can run up to 265.5 km / h and has just sold auctioned nearly 5.9375 million pounds, or around Rp 108 billion. It is the second most expensive European car.
The birth of the car itself starts at the Italian Grand Prix in 1935 was the result of competition in Nazi Germany and Mussolini.
In 1933, Adolf Hitler hijacked state funds to be channeled to the Mercedes Benz and Audi for making the car unbeatable.
Mussolini had heard of it, then he ordered that no Italian cars are also fast to fly the flag of Italy, Alfa Romeo made and Scunderia Ferrari that took him to the track. Thus was born a car driven by Tazio Nuvolari and Carlo Pintacuda.
After a stint, the car was purchased by a wealthy industrialist Dennis Poore happy driving it. But in 1955 this car was retired in the barn at his home in Taplow, Buckinghamshire where the car remained untouched until the death of the owner in 1987.
"This car is a piece of Italian automotive art. This really is a wonderful thing," said Doug Nye, an automotive historian for Bonhams as quoted by the Daily Mail.
Price this car was beat the previous record for Alfa Romeo that was printed in 2010 with the number 4,245,118 pounds.
