Bad start of MILLE MIGLIA: stolen trailer including Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 Touring Cabriolet

The mystery of the stolen trailer including Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 Touring Cabriolet...

Not a good preparation for the Mille Miglia rally this year. You might have already heard what happened from one of your (car) friends or have read it on social media. Last Saturday night the Brian James trailer including Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 Touring Cabriolet of a real passionate car enthusiast and family friend of ours (Ad Branderhorst) has been stolen.

The white trailer was parked near the Fiera (hotel Noce) in Brescia, in Italy. The Alfa Romeo was there to start on Wednesday and participate in the Mille Miglia. Unfortunately, it is not possible anymore to participate… But at this point, the most important thing is to find the Alfa.

Everyone, please look out for this white Brain James trailer (licence plate: 48-WD-JN) and Alfa Romeo (licence plate: AH-25-39) 6C 2500 Touring Cabriolet. Chassis number: 915.135. Engine number: 923.935. Touring body: 2653. Unique details: logo on the bonnet is of Turinga. Next to the grill are 3 louvres (normally 4). Stickers of Mille Miglia and Villa Trasqua are on the car. The attached photographs show both vehicles.

If you have any information, even the smallest details can help. Please leave a comment, send an e-mail to office@prewarcar.com or contact us via Facebook Messenger. Then we will inform the owner and the police.

Hopefully, together we are able to find the car and trailer and help a fellow car enthusiast to reunite him with his dream car. It is a small world and our (pre-war) car community is big!

Will be continued...

Published:

Monday May 14th, 2018

Dana Krejci

22 May 2018, 12:52

Sorry to hear this, I hope the car is found quickly and in one piece!!! We all will be on lookout. Did you ask the hotel to have the outside cameras checked as well as all the city cameras? The chip on these cars is a MUST !

Ginge

21 May 2018, 10:22

Leaving a car & trailer visible, loaded and ready to steal is rather stupid though.......

Hans van Eeuwijk

20 May 2018, 21:14

Sorry Ron, but is your advice that we have to mistrust the whole world as it happens only once now?
I am not going to change for this single case my way of transporting my own car.
But my advice is that we all think about fitting a track and trace chip in our valuable cars, which we can activate in case of a robbery. Something for the KNAC to organize?
This will be much cheaper and we can keep control on our own transport/classic car. Because after the transport is done by a professional who brings the car to a place somewhere in Europe, again it can be stolen every day without the control of the transporter.

LET US ALL THINK ABOUT IT!

Fred Puhn

20 May 2018, 19:03

All old Alfa owners will be on the lookout for parts or car for sale. The thief obviously cannot use the car for anything because we will spot it. The best way for the thief to get away is to leave the car somewhere visible and run like hell. I hope we find and punish this low life.

Ron van’t Schip (pres. Dutch Vintage Sports Car Club)

20 May 2018, 10:36

First of all my sad feelings towards the owner of this beautifull Alfa Romeo. I hope the car will be retrieved, but with every day this still lasts the change to get it back will reduce. Looking at the last picture seeing a Brian James behind a truck I don’t have the impression that transport was executed as professional as possible and perhaps essential for these valuable cars. There are very dedicated companies in Holland of which equipment is with track and trace and even extra support on the car itsself. If this would have been so with this incident it would have been very easy to refind the trailer and or the car. This advise is to late now but can avoid similar incidents in future. Yes it will result in a higher price for transport but with much more garantees on safety, which is in some areas of Europe essential!

Michael

20 May 2018, 20:16

Just when you think you’ve heard it all...along comes another story of complete stupidity.
How does one steal such a fabulous car and think they’re not going to get caught?
I hope that the thief or thieves are quickly found and that the auto is found intact.
Then I would suggest that a proper punishment would be to nail their hands and feet to the pavement
and allow the Alfa owner to back over them once or twice.

Bad start of MILLE MIGLIA: stolen trailer including Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 Touring Cabriolet

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