Cortile della Corsa

In January Bernard martin presented a proposal to the Alfa Romeo Owners Club Board of Directors that the Three Rivers Alfisti chapter of AROC would host the 2019 AROC Convention at the Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix's Cortile Italian Car Show where the TRA was founded in July 2017.

Our Club presented some rather unique ideas for the convention:

• It would start with a Board meeting on Tuesday instead of Wednesday, which is one day earlier that most recent conventions, so that AROC members could particpate in the PVGP parade into the city with a special AROC display at Point State Park where the headwaters of the Ohio river begins with the convergence of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers.
  

• It's theme would have a racing focus. Called the "Cortile della Corsa," translated as the  "Courtyard of Racing," it's  the first time the the entire theme of an AROC convention in North America is going to pay homage to the incredible racing pedigree that IS Alfa Romeo.
  

• It would include, for the first time, the vintage Alfa Romeo Racers who would be competing on the race track against their historical rivals on the track.

• It promises to be THE MOST centrally located of any AROC Convention that has ever been held.  Pittsburgh is within 500 miles of 2/3 of the population of the United States and Canada and that saem radius picks up nearly 1/2 of all of the Alfa Romeo Oweners Club chapters in the United States

The Board voted unanimously to hold the convention in Pittsburgh. Our next step is to start to revise the initial planning in more detail.  The complete presentation is below and can also be found on our YouTube Channel.