Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale, Unique
It’s always corny to say you have a favorite car but I do. Guilty as charged, I’ve always been in love with the Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale. Put it this way, if I had $800,000 or $1.5 million in spare change, I would buy one.
This is it. The car is unique in many ways. Alfa was the leader of the pack before WWII. It made a come back in the 1950′s by inventing small sports car. Yes, a whole decade before BMW. It was common to see 5 speed manual transmission and even more so, double over head cams, hemispheric combustion chambers and aluminum blocks. And to think we are hailing these as wonders on modern cars!
In the mid-60′s, Alfa wanted to return to sports racing. Sure it had won GT Racing championships with it’s beautiful TZ2, all Aluminum, tube frame and 1.3 liter engine but it wanted more.
Comes the 33 Tipo project. I am more interested in unique cars than racers. The 33 Stradale is the race version on a slightly longer wheelbase and a slightly, ever so slightly detuned 2 liter producing 230HP at 8800 RPM. Think about it, this is the 60′s when we are stuck with gas guzzling-accelerate-fast-in-a-straight-line-can’t-corner muscle cars and plump sedans.
The body is typical Italian flare. Luscious lines, feminine and feline, a work of art by Scaglione…
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Posted: January 25th, 2007 under Collectible cars - Italian Old Cars.