More photos from Tim Bamford of his father Tom Bamford's car.
 

Author and racing historian Tim Considine identified the passenger as:  "Jim Sanders 
(I think that's the way it's spelled), an L.A. fireman who was a longtime friend of Tom's."

Tim Bamford
 

This looks like the original grill, minus the badge & script, rather than the replacement grill shown in the middle photo on the previous page.  When was it changed back?  (TM)

"Here is some info:

The chassis number is 2311229, which is a long chassis drophead coupe road
car, not a Monza, with original body possibly by Castagna.

Simon Moore (who wrote the Alfa 8c2300 book) concludes from his research
that ths was a car featured in Road & Track May 1951, with a story of it
being driven from Kansas City to the West Coast in January 1938 by Harry
Steele. 2 photos were used, one showing a UK reg no BYE 284, the other
California plate 57-94-14.

The identity of the pre-War owner is not known, but it seems the car passed
through the hands of Tommy Lee, ending up with Gil Schick in Southern
California. He (or maybe Max Balchowsky) took the engine out and replaced it
with with a Mercury V8. There is a picture of him racing at Palm Springs,
reproduced from 'Speed Age' October 1950. At the end of that season, he
replaced the body with a new special built by Adolf Deutsch, shown in the
book 'Speed and Sport'. Moore says that the car passed in this form to Tom
Bamford and Keenan Wynn.  It's possible Max installed the Cadillac engine,
as he did work for Keenan Wynn.

The original Alfa engine (after repair/restoration) was fitted to Alfa
8c2300 no. 2211092, another long chassis car, originally with a Touring
cabriolet body. This car now has a Zagato-style Le Mans body, and was sold
to Australia in 1996."

Best,
Stu