10-21-2022, 07:55 PM
Various details suggest that car was built to (hopefully) win races, not to be pretty. Though they were done by an entirely different design house, the influence of Bertone's BAT aerodynamic experiments in that car's shape seems pretty clear, or maybe you just don't see many fastback Alfa Romeos from that period.
Swimming against the tide as ever, I like it. It has a purposeful, no-nonsense quality about it as do most "Gentleman's racer" cars that were designed to be driven to the track, raced competitively, than driven back home afterwards. Also I have an inexplicable weakness for Alfa Romeos that began the first time I sat in an Alfetta GTV in 1980.
I'm not wild about the baby blue color, but bonus points awarded for it being any color other than red.
Bertone's BAT cars-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfa_Romeo_BAT
Swimming against the tide as ever, I like it. It has a purposeful, no-nonsense quality about it as do most "Gentleman's racer" cars that were designed to be driven to the track, raced competitively, than driven back home afterwards. Also I have an inexplicable weakness for Alfa Romeos that began the first time I sat in an Alfetta GTV in 1980.
I'm not wild about the baby blue color, but bonus points awarded for it being any color other than red.
Bertone's BAT cars-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfa_Romeo_BAT