Alfa Romeo by Figoni

 In1923, Joseph Figoni opened his coachbuilding enterprise in Paris. That same year, Alfa-Romeo established a showroom in a side street just off the Champs-Élysées. In 1925, Luigi Chinetti was working as a mechanic for the Alfa-Romeo racing team at Montlhéry. When the team went back to Italy, he stayed in France, not wanting to return to the home country where fascism was on the rise. Not long after, he was working for the French Alfa-Romeo company doing what he did best: wheeling, dealing and racing the extraordinary cars the company built. Chinetti and Joseph Figoni became fast friends. Within months, the friendship came to include the legendary drivers Raymond Sommer and Tazio Nuvolari.