Mussolini's girlfriend's Alfa Romeo
1,066 views · Published 5 February 2015 · 1:21 · Indexed 30 October 2026
Channel: vyganews com · 2015 · Entertainment
An Alfa Romeo bought by Benito Mussolini for his girlfriend has been sold for £1.4million after being lovingly restored. The Italian dictator gave the 1939 car to his mistress Clara Petacci – only for the pair to be caught when the vehicle was stopped as they tried to flee from Italy at the end of the Second World War. The 6C Sport Berlinetta, which sat in a barn in America for 21 years from 1949, has been brought back to its former glory – and snapped up at auction. Mussolini met up with Petacci at Lake Como after she travelled in t meet him in the four speed, 110 horse power vehicle. The pair then planned to seek asylum in Switzerland. A motorcade they were in, which included a retreating German anti-aircraft unit, was stopped at a roadblock near the town of Dongo on April 27, 1945.
