A 1953 Alfa Romeo 1900C Dash Supergioiello with each coachbuilt bodywork and a rallying historical past will probably be auctioned off by U.Ok.-based on-line public sale website Automobile & Basic September 17.

The compact 1900 was Alfa’s first postwar manufacturing mannequin, launching in sedan kind in 1950. It marked a pivot away from the exclusivity of prewar Alfas towards extra reasonably priced fashions that would assist get Italians again on the highway because the nation rebuilt from World Warfare II.

1953 Alfa Romeo 1900C Dash Supergioiello (photograph through Automobile & Basic)

The 1900C Dash coupe adopted the sedan in 1951, and Italian coachbuilders Pininfarina, Zagato, Touring, and Ghia reached designed their very own bodywork for the two-door. The Supergioiello (“gioiello” means “jewel” in Italian) was Ghia’s design.

Ghia produced bodywork for 18-20 automobiles, however solely six have been accomplished in keeping with the public sale itemizing. The automotive up for public sale was allegedly the final one accomplished, rolling out of the manufacturing facility in 1953 and being delivered to an proprietor in Spain in 1954, and certainly one of solely three identified to outlive immediately.

1953 Alfa Romeo 1900C Dash Supergioiello (photograph through Automobile & Basic)

Gumersindo Garcia Fernandez used the Alfa as a rally automotive, getting into it within the 1955 Monte Carlo Rally and different occasions. A subsequent proprietor, Salvador Ros, additionally rallied the Alfa between 1958 and 1961, after which the automotive was retired from competitors and saved out of the general public eye.

The Alfa reappeared in 1990 within the palms of a collector, earlier than passing to a different collector. In some unspecified time in the future it was restored to its manufacturing facility look, and has lined simply 48 miles since, the public sale home claims. The automotive is anticipated to promote for round 640,000 British kilos, or about $797,000 at present change charges. That appreciable sum buys a rally automotive very totally different from the winged sedans and hatchbacks that prowl immediately’s rally phases.