WHAT’S IN A NAME?
What a journey it must have been for Luigi Fallai, driving this 1944 Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 S Berlinetta ‘Turinga’ almost 1900 miles northwards through eight countries, as the dust of the Second World War was still settling. Fallai was an Italian based in Sweden, where he sold exotic Italian cars. Anxious to get his business going, he had just acquired a most luxurious calling card for his activities, in the form of this beautiful car. A stunning Berlinetta, delivered by Carrozzeria Touring. Or ‘Turinga’, as it was known during the war years.
The Italian dictator Benito Mussolini had decreed an order to ‘Italianise’ foreign-sounding words, so there would be no basketball under Mussolini but , no Inter Milan in soccer but ‘Ambrosiana’ (after Milan’s patron saint), and no Touring but ‘Turinga’. Strange, yet these days a Turinga is a rarity because of it. Alfa Romeo built only 18 cars during 1944, of which nine were Berlinettas
