Milano lo lasciò in un cassetto. In Africa vinse tutto

Veicoli Dimenticati | Storie in italiano

Veicoli Dimenticati | Storie in italiano

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In 1983, in a warehouse in Brits, South Africa, a worker lifts the hood of an Italian coupé with one hand. The hood is made of fiberglass, handmade nearby, and features a hump in the center unlike any other Alfa Romeo sold in Europe.

This is the three-liter Alfa Romeo GTV6: the most powerful and fastest version of the Arese coupé, built ten thousand kilometers from Milan and never sold in Italy.

In this video, I'll tell you how an engine that Italy had put in a drawer for tax reasons ended up on another continent, why six Dell'Orto carburetors forced the hood to be rebuilt by hand, and how that three-liter returned to Europe only in 1987, after having already won everything far from home.

Two thousand nine hundred and thirty-four cubic centimeters, one hundred and twenty-eight kilowatts, two hundred and twenty-four kilometers per hour, just over two hundred units built solely to obtain homologation. A debut victory, a championship, a class win, and a performance index over the thousand kilometers at Kyalami. And today, that hump on the hood is the only signature that no copy can fake.

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