Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 Gran Sport Aprile

An individually significant coachbuilt car in the Lopresto collection.

The Gran Sport Aprile is an individual-car entry within the broader 6C 1750 story. The Lopresto collection’s own awards record identifies the car by this name and documents its concours recognition. Its significance is best understood through the history of its body and ownership, rather than by treating Aprile as a normal factory trim level.

Engineering and historical context

The supplied inventory places this entry in 1930, while the selected photographic source describes the car as a 1931 Gran Sport Zagato-Aprile. That discrepancy remains visible in the editorial notes. The production-start field is left blank pending a primary chassis record, rather than turning either label into a confirmed build date.

Production and rarity

This is a profile of one named coachbuilt car. A one-off description does not establish a one-car Alfa Romeo factory production series. The structured production total remains blank, and neither the larger 1750 family total nor the special fixed-head competition count is applied to it.

Coachwork and the illustrated car

The owner’s palmarès establishes the car’s presence in a distinguished collection and records awards including recognition at Villa d’Este. An awards list supports the car’s modern public history; it is not a substitute for an original chassis ledger or a dated body-construction record. Those documents remain the appropriate basis for resolving the chronology.

Reading an individual car’s history

Begin with the chassis identification and trace its connection to dated records. Keep engine identity, coachwork and race history as separate lines of evidence. A replacement component may be documented and appropriate without being original to delivery; a restored body may be historically faithful without preserving every original panel.

For this Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 Gran Sport Aprile entry, retain copies of the records that support the precise version being described. Period photographs can establish a configuration at a particular date, while invoices and restoration photographs can explain subsequent changes. A concours award or modern rally appearance belongs in the ownership history, alongside those records, rather than replacing them.

Collector questions

Does the model name identify a particular chassis?

The Aprile entry concerns one named car; its chronology still needs the primary chassis and body records.

What does the production figure count?

The exact variant field is left blank. The production discussion records the available evidence and the limits of its scope.

Related vehicle profiles

• Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 Sport
• Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 Super Sport Zagato
• Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 Gran Sport Zagato

Primary references

1. Lopresto collection: awards record

Photo and credit

Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 Gran Sport Zagato-Aprile at Rétromobile 2015. The photo source dates the car to 1931; the inventory lists 1930, pending chassis-record verification. Photo: Thesupermat / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized and JPEG-compressed for web display; no content retouching. Website layouts may crop the image.