Italian privateer racing driver Gino Munaron has passed away at the age of 81. Munaron was always considered to be...
Over the last 27 years, the Italian Car Day at the Brooklands Museum (May 4, 2013) has grown to become not only the UK’s top event for owners and admirers of all things Italian, but also the largest gathering of Italian cars in the country. Anyone arriving in any Italian...
One of the interesting things about getting older—at least as a car enthusiast—is looking back on all the cars that...
1971 Alfa Romeo GTV Trans-Am If you ask any pre-teenage boy what a transformer is, he’ll tell you it is...
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....
In just a few days, the Concours of Elegance 2021 will start and again, we’ll be able to see the...
On August 19, at Bonhams & Butterfields Quail Lodge sale, the last Alfa Romeo TZ2 ever built for Alfa’s Autodelta...
The Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ driven by Giampiero Biscaldi and Giancarlo Sala at the 1964 24 Hours of Le Mans. The Scuderia St. Ambroeus entry finished in second place in the 1.6-litre GT class behind another TZ. Arthur Schening is a freelance graphic designer and illustrator living in Arlington, VA. “I...
1964 ALFA ROMEO GIULIA Ti SUPER Not too long ago, I had the chance to take part in one of...
The H-Modified class in American road racing was derived from the FIA small-displacement sports racing machines popularized in Italy and...
October 2008 Carlos Lepro’s Giulia—The First Winning GTA By Bernardo D. Martínez, MD For ten days, in October 1965, a grueling, 4,236-km touring car race—the Gran Premio Internacional de Turismo—was held around Argentina. During that race, a young teenager named Bernardo Martínez watched the race and was spellbound by the...
If you’re a fan of Alfa Romeo in general—and the Tipo 105s built between 1961 and 1977, in particular—this new,...
Not sure why, but I seem to be having a number of automotive epiphanies lately, as a result of driving...
Alfa Romeo TZ2 By 1963, Alfa Romeo was looking for a replacement for their Giulietta SZ, which had been very successful in European racing and rallying. It had heralded Alfa’s first use of Girling front disc brakes and had seen inroads made in aerodynamic technology with efficient use of the...
Among the special awards presented at August’s 59th Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance was the Gran Turismo Award taken by the...
Sometimes, automotive life imitates art I’ve just come back from my once a year foray into the modern automotive industry—the...
November 2003 Alfa Romeo TZ—The Cars, the Race Results By Philippe Olczyk It came as something of a surprise to find myself pictured behind the wheel, on page four of Olczyk’s TZ book, in a picture that has never been released of a totally nonexistent car! Become a Member & Get...
There is something so unmistakably compelling about the sports cars produced in the 1960s. Beautifully formed, sculpturally exquisite, and modestly...
Mike Glore has an interesting collection of automobiles. While it is mostly British, with an emphasis on Lotus, he also...
In 1963, the Giulia Sprint GT was first shown to the press at Alfa’s recently opened plant in Arese, followed later that month when the public got a look at the Frankfurt Motor Show. The body was designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro for Bertone and the look was a progression and...
Pete Lyons Something is missing. Look around the race tracks, the city streets, the holiday hotspots … see what isn’t...