1971 Alfa Romeo GTAm

There is a slight inclination here to refer you to Tony Adriaensen’s remarkable tome Alleggerita and let myself off a complex historical hook. Explaining the evolution of Alfa Romeo’s competition models is challenging at best and maddening most of the time. After about 25 years working on it, I’ve almost got it, but I never trust my memory without referring to the proper experts. Many people have tried to tell the story of Alfa Romeo and they all struggle when it comes to the subtleties of certain models and their variants. Belgian Adriaensen is the person who has done the best job of recording the twisted tale of how Giulia coupes and sedans became enormously powerful, wide-bodied wailing super-racers at the end of the 1960s and beginning of the ’70s. But as Alleggerita, the biography of the Alfa GTA, is virtually unobtainable, it falls to us to try to show you where the car you see here, the GTAm, came from.

Giulias from Giuliettas