loading the "Disco Volante"

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=28856139480714066&set=gm.3557712351069010&idorvanity=132380976935515

Alfa Romeo factory, 1953

the shell documentary in color, of the 1953 Mille Miglia - in the film they recorded Fitch, Gordini, Fangio, and Roberto Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman

Franco Scaglione designs. His work with Bertone for Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Jaguar, Porsche, Lamborghini, and many others has a lasting influence

https://drivemag.com/red-calipers/the-incredibly-beautiful-cars-of-franco-scaglione/#&gid=1&pid=10

the 1967 Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 Stradale debuted At the 1967 Paris Motor Show, with Scaglione's curvaceous design on a Stradale chassis

https://petrolicious.com/blogs/articles/gallery-the-alfa-romeo-33-2-coupe-speciale-pininfarina-and-an-alternate-vision-of-the-1970s

an abandoned '74 Alfa Romeo GTV 2000 in New Zealand gets remade, and upgraded, to a coachbuilt level of awesome

https://www.youtube.com/@HomeBuiltByJeff

Alain de Cadenet's son, Aiden, made this cool little video about his dad, and his dad's favorite car

while watching this Petrolicious video, I see this page from a magnaflux shop that did some suspension parts testing, and it's only a couple miles from me, and I wondered if it's the engine rebuild place I know of... nope, it's now an El Polo Loco fast food restaurant

Here's the engine rebuild shop:

it's on the same side of the road, 2 blocks North. 

Mike Marett bought a 1971 Alfa Romeo Giulia Super with one plan. Ship it to Canada. Run the Targa Newfoundland.

https://petrolicious.com/blogs/films/accidental-alfas-mike-maretts-1971-giulia-super

an Alfa dealership in Belgium shut down when the owner died, and the widow and son, just locked it up. A dozen new cars still inside

 https://www.carscoops.com/2025/08/this-alfa-romeo-dealer-closed-years-ago-but-the-cars-are-still-sitting-inside/

I'm going to guess that the Honda CRX was inspired by this Alfa

 https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1184236443744693&set=pcb.1184236503744687

rusty Alfa yard art... at a restaurant? That's unusual

Angelina's Ristorante on Staten Island  https://www.yelp.com/biz/angelinas-ristorante-staten-island

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=24726645893587739&set=pcb.4154669791414214

The Alfa Romeo TZ3 Stradale Zagato is a Viper, with a cargo trunk, mixing the bones of a Viper ACR-X and its 8.4-liter, 640-horsepower V10 with classic Zagato design.

 

https://www.thedrive.com/news/alfas-take-on-the-dodge-viper-had-the-weirdest-tailgate-of-any-supercar

LeContainer is still putting up cool content

as always, it's only images, no text, about design and graphic illustration, but mostly on vehicle and architecture. It's what you'd expect to see in a university of design hallway

https://lecontainer.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2024-11-23T09:39:00%2B01:00&max-results=25

65 Alfa Romeo Guilia Sprint Speciale Coupe

 

1965 Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ2 competition FIA GT Berlinetta

I just learned that Studio Ghibli made the animation for a music video in 1995 "On Your Mark"

This isn't the music video, it's a description/review of it... so you understand a little of what the video is about

   

According to the book "Studio Ghibli, the Complete Works" the storyline for the video is that in the future, people have been forced underground by radioactive contamination and disease. Armed police officers storm a skyscraper with a flashing neon sign that which reads "Saint Nova's Church". When the pink aircraft the police use crashed through the building, notice the religious fanatics are armed with rifles, as if anticipating a battle. Two of the officers rescue a winged girl from deep within the building, but the authorities take custody of her as an experimental subject. Unable to put her out of their minds the two officers put together a plan to rescue the winged girl and return her to the sky. In the film, Miyazaki repeats key scenes but leads each one to different endings, adroitly expressing the many possibilities the future holds

Hagerty posts a lot of good stories, here's one about living with a classic Alfa in New York

https://www.hagerty.com/media/car-profiles/small-car-big-apple-the-joy-of-owning-and-driving-a-1965-alfa-romeo-giulia-in-new-york-city/

Gunnar Olsson, a driving force in Swedish motor racing during the 1940’s and 1950’s establishing the first permanent motor racing track in Sweden, home-built the “Go-On II” around Jaguar SS and Alfa Romeo 6C components

The car was built on a home-built frame and was fitted with Jaguar SS differential/axle, radiator and wheels. The gearbox was sourced from the Alfa Romeo 6C and this was probably installed with the Alfa Romeo 2.5 liter engine when Olsson replaced the Lancia unit.

The bodywork of the “Go-On II” was made by professional coachbuilder Svedbergs and it appears to have been styled after the Alfetta 158 voiturette.

https://silodrome.com/go-on-ii-alfa-romeo-special-ice-racer/

reminds me of a puppy with big feet

 https://lecontainer.blogspot.com/