Canguro

  • Brand: Alfa Romeo
  • Subtitle: A car designed like an aircraft
  • Intro: Giorgetto Giugiaro produced one of the most extraordinarily curvaceous designs of the sixties.
  • Technical specifications:

    BRAND: Alfa Romeo

    MODEL: Canguro

    YEAR: 1964

    BODY TYPE: Sports car

    POWER SUPPLY: Combustion

    CATEGORY: Concept car

    DESIGNER: Giorgetto Giugiaro

  • Designer: Giorgetto Giugiaro
  • Time period: 1955/1965
  • Production: Concept Car
  • Type: Sports Car
  • Power supply: Combustion

The Alfa Romeo Canguro is a concept car built by Bertone coachworks in 1964 as a one-off. The car was developed on the tubular-frame chassis of the "TZ," with a longitudinal inline-four-cylinder engine rated at 170 hp. It was rear-wheel drive, while the transmission was a five-speed manual. It was executed on behalf of Alfa Romeo who wanted to assess a road-going version's feasibility of the TZ.

Giorgetto Giugiaro produced one of the most extraordinarily curvaceous designs of the sixties for this car. Covered headlights, doors curving into the roofline and a wraparound rear windscreen were the most striking details. The bodywork was fabricated entirely from aluminum. Particularly innovative was the solution adopted for the glazed surfaces, which were glued to the bodywork frames. This system, borrowed from aviation technology, made it possible to reduce the height of the car to only 105 cm.

The prototype was unveiled at the Paris Motor Show in 1964, but a few months later it was destroyed during a test for the trade press on the Monza track. Judged too sporty and expensive for mass production, the project was abandoned and Bertone began work on its stylistic evolution, which would later give rise to the "Montreal" model prototypes.

After remaining in pieces for nearly 30 years, a Japanese collector finished a restoration which began in the early seventies. The Canguro made a triumphant return to show circuits at 2005 Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este.

186 GT

  • Brand: Innocenti
  • Subtitle: A prestige little GT with a Ferrari heart
  • Intro: The Innocenti 186 GT is a sports car built jointly by the Italian automakers Innocenti and Ferrari between 1963 and 1964. Only two prototypes were built, only one of which still exists today.
  • Technical specifications:

    BRAND: Innocenti

    MODEL: 186 GT

    YEAR: 1964

    BODY TYPE: Sports car

    POWER SUPPLY: Combustion

    CATEGORY: Concept car

    DESIGNER: Giorgetto Giugiaro

  • Designer: Giorgetto Giugiaro
  • Time period: 1955/1965
  • Production: Concept Car
  • Type: Sports Car
  • Power supply: Combustion

The design was entrusted to Bertone, who was also responsible for producing the bodywork. To design the car, the job was assigned to Giorgetto Giugiaro, who designed a 2+2 fastback coupe with a partially aluminum body.

5300 GT Strada

  • Brand: Bizzarrini
  • Subtitle: The trademark of the Bizzarrini automaker
  • Intro: A granturismo with fascinating lines and performance worthy of the most emblazoned competitors, this car arguably constitutes the pinnacle of Giotto Bizzarrini's creative and design skills, achieved after various experiences in building cars now considered legendary.
  • Technical specifications:

    BRAND: Bizzarrini

    MODEL: 5300 GT Strada

    YEAR: 1964

    BODY TYPE: Sports car

    POWER SUPPLY: Combustion

    CATEGORY: Production car

    DESIGNER: Giorgetto Giugiaro

  • Designer: Giorgetto Giugiaro
  • Time period: 1955/1965
  • Production: Production Car
  • Type: Sports Car
  • Power supply: Combustion

The styling of the 5300 GT Strada was directly inspired by that of the Iso Grifo, also the work of Giorgetto Giugiaro, and emphasized its proportions, with the long hood highlighting a very set back position of the V8 engine. The car was built until 1969 in 133 examples.

Giulia Sprint Speciale

  • Brand: Alfa Romeo
  • Subtitle: The sports car that could have been
  • Intro: In 1965, when the life cycle of the Giulia Sprint Speciale designed by Franco Scaglione was coming to an end, the Bertone coachbuilder built a prototype on the Giulia's chassis to try to give it an heir.
  • Technical specifications:

    BRAND: Alfa Romeo

    MODEL: Giulia Sprint Speciale

    YEAR: 1964

    BODY TYPE: Sports car

    POWER SUPPLY: Combustion

    CATEGORY: Concept car

    DESIGNER: Giorgetto Giugiaro

  • Designer: Giorgetto Giugiaro
  • Time period: 1955/1965
  • Production: Concept Car
  • Type: Sports Car
  • Power supply: Combustion

However, Alfa Romeo executives decide not to mass-produce the car born from the pencil of Giorgetto Giugiaro, and the only prototype built is preserved by the Alfa Romeo Historical Museum in Arese.

1000 Spider

  • Brand: Asa
  • Subtitle: The rare spider versione of the 1000 GT
  • Intro: Production of the ASA 1000 GT sports car began in 1964 but, due to expense, fewer than 100 were built over a three-year period. Of these, no more than 17 were factory Spiders.
  • Technical specifications:

    BRAND: Asa

    MODEL: 1000 Spider

    YEAR: 1964

    BODY TYPE: Sports car

    POWER SUPPLY: Combustion

    CATEGORY: Production car

    DESIGNER: Giorgetto Giugiaro

  • Designer: Giorgetto Giugiaro
  • Time period: 1955/1965
  • Production: Production Car
  • Type: Sports Car
  • Power supply: Combustion

The spider - featuring a tubular chassis made by Giotto Bizzarrini (inspired by that of the Ferrari 250 GT) and designed by the young Giorgetto Giugiaro - differs from the closed variant by having a lighter fiberglass body instead of metal.

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