Lopresto's Alfa before Villa d'Este (Upd.: now more original than in the 'as found' photos)

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When we published about the Villa d’Este 2010 winning 1942 Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 SS Bertone Coupe we asked for photos prior to the very thorough restoration. Robert Moran was kind enough to send us what he got. He also explains: "the car in the photo  I imported in the mid '60's from the 2nd owner in Switzerland, owned (it) for about thirty years and sold to a Belgian who apparently sold it to Corrado Lopresto, noted Italian collector, who, in my view, over-restored it." Now we don't want to jump to conclusions but is interesting indeed to compare the photo of the unrestored car with the presented specimen at Villa d'Este. Take a closer look at the detail of the front. We see a different bumper arrangement (or are these just bumper mountings?) . We see very different horizontal louvres. The thin strips miss in the original but the holes for fixing speak for themselves. We also see spoke wheels as opposed to the exotic set mounted in the Villa d'Este version. And what happened to the orange direction light?  Still, we may be totally wrong but it looks like the original car was changed to make it look like a similar car (Alfabb.com) from the same era. We welcome Mr. Lopresto and any expert opinion about the mentioned design issues.

UPDATE: please read the  important recent comments; Mr. Tubut & Alfadocter, (please also comment on the bumpers and wheels, if you have knowledge about that)

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