In 1963, the Giulia Sprint GT was first shown to the press at Alfa’s recently opened plant in Arese, followed...
In just a few days, the Concours of Elegance 2021 will start and again, we’ll be able to see the...
There is something so unmistakably compelling about the sports cars produced in the 1960s. Beautifully formed, sculpturally exquisite, and modestly detailed, no country did it better than Italy and no car company was more adventurous with their cars than Alfa Romeo. Hundreds of books have been written on the engineering...
Mike Glore has an interesting collection of automobiles. While it is mostly British, with an emphasis on Lotus, he also...
The Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ driven by Giampiero Biscaldi and Giancarlo Sala at the 1964 24 Hours of Le Mans....
If you’re a fan of Alfa Romeo in general—and the Tipo 105s built between 1961 and 1977, in particular—this new, 6 volume photo series will be a must-have. Produced by Dingwort-Verlag in Germany, the publishers of the outstanding Alfa Romeo “Alleggerita” 3-volume set on the racing GTAs, this latest offering...
One of the interesting things about getting older—at least as a car enthusiast—is looking back on all the cars that...
Sometimes, automotive life imitates art I’ve just come back from my once a year foray into the modern automotive industry—the press day for the Los Angeles Auto Show. After spending the preceding 12 months totally immersed in antiquated cars and long-dead marques, it’s always interesting to see the latest and...
Not sure why, but I seem to be having a number of automotive epiphanies lately, as a result of driving...
Over the last 27 years, the Italian Car Day at the Brooklands Museum (May 4, 2013) has grown to become...
It seems strange to me that I’ve become an Alfa enthusiast, as I apparently have come to the party relatively late in my automotive life. As a kid, I was certainly crazy for Italian cars, Ferraris in particular, of course. They were fast and loud, low slung, sleek and sexy....
Pete Lyons Something is missing. Look around the race tracks, the city streets, the holiday hotspots … see what isn’t...
1971 Alfa Romeo GTV Trans-Am If you ask any pre-teenage boy what a transformer is, he’ll tell you it is...
Italian privateer racing driver Gino Munaron has passed away at the age of 81. Munaron was always considered to be a very professional driver who raced sports and touring cars between 1955 and 1965, usually driving his own cars but also doing occasional works duty with Ferrari, Maserati, and Osca....
Among the special awards presented at August’s 59th Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance was the Gran Turismo Award taken by the...
October 2008 Carlos Lepro’s Giulia—The First Winning GTA By Bernardo D. Martínez, MD For ten days, in October 1965, a...
The H-Modified class in American road racing was derived from the FIA small-displacement sports racing machines popularized in Italy and France. In the fifties, it was dominated by cars derived from the Italian National Racing classes, which were in force from 1937 to 1965. Development of the 750-cc class in...
On August 19, at Bonhams & Butterfields Quail Lodge sale, the last Alfa Romeo TZ2 ever built for Alfa’s Autodelta...
November 2003 Alfa Romeo TZ—The Cars, the Race Results By Philippe Olczyk It came as something of a surprise to find...
1964 ALFA ROMEO GIULIA Ti SUPER Not too long ago, I had the chance to take part in one of those great, little known events of which you find hundreds in the European racing calender, the 750 Meilen von Nürburgring, a 750-mile event for historic cars at the Nürburgring in...
Alfa Romeo TZ2 By 1963, Alfa Romeo was looking for a replacement for their Giulietta SZ, which had been very...
