Alfa Romeo marine engine, post 1950 Options

[VDP]

I ve read that they intended to put an 158/159 engine in a racing boat was this constructed and did they race it ?

Patrick ?


Robert

[Tim Murray]

Have a look here:

http://forums.atlasf1.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=62780

and here:

Originally posted by m.tanney in the ‘CABI-Cattaneo engineering firm Italy post-WW2‘ thread
  As Stu brought this thread back to the front page, I thought I'd take advantage of the opportunity and post this photo of a beautiful CABI-Cattaneo/Alfa-Romeo collaboration: Achille Castoldi's works supported, 158-engined Arno II. Recognize the driver? He's Castoldi's friend, Alfa GP driver and occasional powerboat racer Achille Varzi.

[Patrick Italiano]

Well, obviously I've been beaten by a full day on this call.

So I can't add much to the story told in the other thread mentionned above. I have pictures of those boats, including one where Alfa mechanics are fitting the engine into the boat (don't remember which one, would say a Laura). Note that marine competition have also been successfully prepared years later, by Autodelta, with 4-cylinder engines and 33 V8s.

Prewar, a 12C36 GP engine was also fitted into the "Mariella", Passarin's boat, as quoted by m.tanney in the other thread.

An even odder boat racer, fitted with an Alfa engine, is to be seen in the basement of the Science museum in Milan. Guess the engine...