Where did the Jankovits Alfa go? (UPDATE: found !)

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UPDATE by Michael Ware: "Your web site has worked again, the car has been found." (edit.: in Modena, Italy where it is undergoing a full restoration.; details will follow).

by Michael Ware 'MotorMuseums' :"Brothers Gino and Oscar Jankovits were architects with a great love of sports cars. They lived in Fiume in Hungary. Because of family connections they had the ear of Vittorio Jano, the legendary Chief Development Engineer at Alfa Romeo. The Jankovits designed a sports car that so impressed Jano that he allowed them to build it at the factory. The plans depicted a most futuristic sports car with a central driving position (click) with passenger space on either side... There was a long sloping tail (click) enveloping the rear mounted engine. The car was designed to take a 6C 2300 engine and was completed in 1937. I have been told that it might have been a test bed for the Tipo 512 racing car which came out in 1940. There are also similarities with the prototype Berlinetta Dacorsa Tipo 163 closed coupe planned for 1941. After the war the car was purchased...... >>>

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