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    Jan 03, 2020 2 minutes
    By Dave Selby

    ARTCURIAL, FRANCE Is Mariska the Alfa Romeo of the seas?

    If the 1908 Fife-designed and built 15-Metre Mariska were a car, what would she be? A Bentley Speed Six or Type 57SC Bugatti perhaps, or possibly an 8C Alfa Romeo?

    Comparison is invited is coming up for sale in a February classic car auction at the famed Retromobile show in Paris, where last year, a 1938 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B () sold for €16.75 million. Like the exquisite race-bred Alfa touring saloon, was built not just for speed but for comfort, so that the owner may live on board in reasonable style, as laid down by the new 15-Metre formula established to challenge rules that had created marginal racing freaks.

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