Tutto Italiano, 2024 Edition

By Frank Anigbo
Photos by Chris Currier, John Rowntree, and Frank

IF YOU LOVE ITALIAN CARS and are plugged in to car happenings around New England, chances are good that you’ve heard of Tutto Italiano, the BIG Italian car fest that happens sometime in early August at the Larz Anderson Automotive Museum. And if you own a vintage Italian car and happen to live within 50 miles of Brookline, Massachusetts, and you’ve never attended Tutto, then I must ask with all sincerity: What’s wrong with you?!

The years of Covid put a damper on everything, Tutto Italiano included. And I would say that the Italian car celebration that is Tutto feels a bit different post Covid than it did before. The crowds don’t seem as large and the cars don’t seem as numerous, in numbers and in variety. But you wouldn’t know that if you confined yourself to the Alfa Romeo corral at the lower field of Larz Anderson on August 4, 2024, despite a forecast of rain that thankfully did not materialize until well after the event!

Alfa people turned up like Covid never happened, with cars like a lovely Giulietta Sprint and two Giulietta Spiders, GTV6, Milano, Duettos, later Spiders, several 1750 and two liter GTVs, old and new iterations of the Giulia name, and current offerings since the return of Alfa Romeo cars in 2008. Alfas, flanked by Fiats, Maseratis, and a Lancia or two, made for the sort of atmosphere that is classic Tutto Italiano. The weather was beautiful for a change, the previous days and weeks having been too hot to get out of bed. The skies were blue and sparsely dotted with happy little clouds, and visitors chatted with owners, took photos of the cars, and had their photos taken with the cars.

As always, AONE set up a hospitality tent to greet, educate, and spread the word about the club and benefits of membership.

The 2024 edition of Tutto Italiano gave everyone in attendance something to be happy about. For one particular AONE member, it got a whole lot better when his car, a Giallo Ocra 1969 1750 GTV was awarded Best Alfa Romeo. Does it get any better than that? I think not.