The Alfa Romeo SZ

Either you love or hate, "said Paul Millbank as he
He handed me the keys to its NORTH-WEST. But I've always loved, I
the idea. It seems that this bluff, anti-establishment and Zagato
the cache always done for me. Up close and you can
See Why some of the same. For a country that prided itself on
coachbuilding industry, where artisans defeated pieces of metal through the tree
the stumps for the years in the name of automotive sculpture, unusual
see the plastic Italian car with a large panel gaps and DIY Interior,
would embarrass-kits of brotherhood.
And as A toy set from something more prosaic than
they pretend to, in this case the Alfa 75 saloon. Today, it would be impossible
for large manufacturers such as Alfa Romeo, this type of car of the past
the prototype stage, and, let's face it, even 15 years ago, it had to be
the fight. Maybe it was nothing more than Ing Vittorio Ghidella, then
The Executive Director for Fiat Auto, trying to capitalize on the end of the 1980s
the demand for bespoke cars supercars 1989, or even no car, which was expensive
and exclusive that investors would punt on it. Exclusive
should refer to a limited number of, never entirely ensure delivery
rather than domestic demand, but could not avoid, production lines at Arese
could be the night stop, although the limited series of cars was manufactured.
The building of the new Alpha supercar should be externally.
Enter the Zagato, stormy craftsmen reputation but chaotic
trade. Was in the last few years in the premises of the Milanese
predominantly spent building the Spyder version of the Maserati Biturbo for
Alessandro De Tomaso, but it was given as sometimes megalomanskou
De Tomaso moved production to one of his factories. It looked like
Everything was in the suburbs of Terrazzano di Rho Andrea shut up.
Zagato and his cousin Maura was even contemplating the establishment of a fashion
The Design of the hand for the clothes. So when the Fiat Centro Stile Zagato came up with the
a proposal for productionise SZ design, Zagato came on board
enthusiastically. Using the Zagato certainly equipped in Ghidella his vision. IN THE
Association with the Zagato bodied Alf the old car would be nothing wrong with that at all
a collectors ' market.
Unlike those, this new SZ wasn't designed by Zagato
itself, but also Walter de Silva, and the team at the Fiat Centro Stile. Eclectic in
extreme were the different elements of the proposal, which includes not only
The incredible nature of the lower half of the plaque, which was completely contrary
with flying glass. Whereas a clean sheet of paper would Zagato
may have something similar, such was the extravagance of the
shape – but the strangest of all was the medium in which the body should be
built. The technical term was Modar, which translates as preferred-
reinforced thermosetting injection moulded cushion metacrylic resin
plastic you and me. Using the Modar allowed certain
Freedom of speech, but it was not without its problems in the
development. The production of mouldings body was carried out by
Carplast in Piacenza, the company operates a Giuseppe Bizzarrini
(son of Giotto) with Zagato the completion and installation in the
Milan. The production schedule was on the 1000 cars in
a year after the SZ debuted in 1989 Geneva Motor
The show, but problems with the Modar frames cause headaches for Zagato and extensive post-production finish was necessary, which in turn delay the expected output. Around the same time Ghidella left the Fiat and the project lost
the momentum. Only 13 cars were actually built in 1989.

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