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It was reading a three-month-old account of the 1953 Mille Miglia in a copy of Motor Trend.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 1953, all the new Alfa Romeo 6C 3000 CMs had led the 1000-mile thrash round Italy, and after Kling had retired, proving the old adage that \u201che who leads at Rome never wins the Mille Miglia\u201d to be true, Fangio had pushed his Alfa\u2026.the Disco Volante\u2026into the lead. 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