1933 Alfa-Cadillac “Keenan Wynn Special”. Photo: Casey Annis
1933 Alfa-Cadillac “Keenan Wynn Special”
Looks like an Alfa…but looks can be deceiving. The “Keenan Wynn Special” stretches its legs on an empty stretch of road in Arizona’s Saguaro National Park. Photo: Casey Annis
It’s enough to make any self-respecting purist cringe. Take a seductive 1933 Alfa Romeo 8C 2300, pull out the supercharged 8-cylinder engine, throw away the special Castagna body, cut up and shorten the chassis, and finally install a Flathead Mercury V-8! Too painful a vision to contemplate? Not in the road racing heyday of the 1950s, when a 20-year-old racecar was merely the raw materials for a young racer’s vision of the ultimate Hot Rod Special.
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