Registration GU 9699
(Robin Batchelor - email robin*at*robinbatchelor.com)
The image below is courtesy Cherrett Stiles Collection and is found in Angela Cherrett's excellent book 'Alfa Romeo Tipo 6c' published by Foulis in 1989 ( now out of print).
She captions the image as follows... "The four 1500 Super Sports , bought by F.W. Stiles in April 1929, leaving Italy en route for England...."
The car we are interested in is second from left, chassis #0312873, with Mrs Stiles at the wheel and sold to Mr. Edgar Fronteras on arrival in England.
Fronteras entered the car in the 1929 ARDS TT for Ramponi to drive.
Here we see him in car #36 behind Ivanovsky in another Alfa 1500SS car #32.
Image courtesy LAT austinharris.co.uk
VSCC member Mic Comber bought the car in 1963 and he wrote this letter to Motor Sport in 1986....
Mic Comber is hoping that some gaps in the history of the 1500 Super Sports Alta Romeo, which he has owned for the past 23 years, can be filled in by readers. The car was imported early in 1929, along with others, by Mr Stiles of Alfa Romeo (British Sales) Ltd, who wrote about this for MOTOR SPORT after the war. Edgar Fronteras, who was associated with Stiles, had the car. Reg No GU 9699, and it was driven in the Ulster TT by Rarnponi and in the JCC Brooklands "Double-Twelve" and the Irish GP in Phoenix Park by Fronteras, who was also the entrant on all three occasions. It was given a heavy-looking dh coupe body in 1934 and it is thought to have been owned by a lady for a couple of years, from 1936. By the time Mic Comber bought it yet another body, a doorless two-seater by Yimkins, probably put on in the 1950s, had replaced the original very light two-seater body. In 1957 a Mr A. J. D. Sims, of Streatham, had the Alfa Romeo, which today has a replica of its original body. If anyone knows more about the car, particularly its history from 1929 to 1934, when it may have done more racing, Mr Comber would like to know. Letters can be forwarded.
The VSCC Bulletin published this picture by Max Hill in 1965...
And another image from the VSCC Bulletin where GU9699 is in Italy on the Arco Rally of 1974
Peter Hull ansd Roy Slater share some interesting information in their splendid book 'Alfa Romeo. A History.'
Published by Traansport Bookman Publications in 1964. ( Revised 1982)
And
finally, we see this entry on the website for
the Louwman museum in Holland...
LINK
The car present in the museum is one of the rare super sports with compressor. The car was owned by a London-based driver, Edgar Fronteras,
6C 1500 SUPER SPORT WORKS TEAM CAR
