Alfa Romeo GT 1300 Junior, 1969
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Alfa Romeo GT 1300 Junior, 1969

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Alfa Romeo Giulia GT 1300 Junior, année 1969. Numéro de châssis AK1240XXX. Couleur bleu foncé avec un intérieur cuir noir et tapis noir. Cette superbe Alfa Romeo Giulia GT est en excellent état! Le travail du corps et de la mécanique ont été largement restaurées et révisés et la voiture a été entretenu parfaitement. La voiture a été vendue neuve dans le Pays-Bas et l'automobile porte encore son numéro d'enregistrement 1969 d'origine. Cette Giulia GT vient de la troisième propriétaire néerlandaise. Le coupé Alfa Romeo Giulia est l'un des plus beaux coupés compacts jamais construits. Le coupé Giulia GT combine une excellente tenue de route, la technologie de la performance d'époque et une expérience de conduite sportive dans un beau paquet conçu Bertone. Cette GT 1300 dispose d'un plus puissant moteur 2000 cc. Ce power-upgrade a été donné à de nombreux modèles Alfa Romeo 1300 et 1600 cc des 1960ies et 1970ies. Une voiture italienne hautement souhaitable.

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The Alfa Romeo Giulia GT was designed by Bertone and can be considered as one of the most successful designs of a compact GT in the past decades. In addition to its exquisite design, the Giulia GT handles very well, is fitted with a sublime engine and is practical and user-friendly. The Giulia GT is every inch a two-person GT, a paragon for everything Alfa Romeo stands for: it is competitive, refined and has class. The Giulia GT is fitted with a complete aluminium four-cylinder in-line engine with a double overhead camshaft and a five-speed gearbox. The Giulia GT "Bertone" was built from 1963 until 1972 and from 1972 until 1977 with a redesigned front. The latter models were named "Lusso". The cars were sold with several cylinder capacities; 1300, 1600 and 1750 cc. From 1972 until 1977 a 2000 cc. variant marketed: the Giulia 2000 GTV.

Technical data

Four cylinder in-line engine DOHC
cylinder capacity: 1290 cc.
carburettors: 2 x twin choke Weber
capacity: 103 SAE bhp. at 6000 tpm.
top-speed: 175 km/h. - 109 mph.
gearbox: 5-speed, manual
weight: 980 kg.

Alfa Romeo history

The marque Alfa Romeo is one of the most important names in the history of the automobile."Alfa" (Sociètà Anonima Lombardo Fabbrica Automobili) was founded in the year 1910. The company was given the name Alfa Romeo after Mr. Nicolo Romeo bought the firm in the year 1915.

Alfa Romeo started building small automobiles for "everyday" passenger transportation. In the early 1920'ies Alfa Romeo also started engineering and building sports- and racing-cars.
The automobiles built by Alfa Romeo were all technically refined and far ahead of their competitors; New inventions and technical discoveries were engineered, tested and introduced in the production models right away. A good example is the introduction of the double overhead camshafts (DOHC), all Alfa Romeo engines from 1929 up to today are fitted with this superior overhead valve operating principle.

During the thirties and in the end of the forties of the ninetieth century Alfa Romeo was the dominant marque in racing competitions. Alfa Romeo racingcars were able to win all racing competitions which they competed in like Le Mans and the Mille Miglia. In the early thirties Enzo Ferrari was racing for "scruderia"Alfa Romeo and was promoted to be team manager in the late thirties. Alfa Romeo decided to put an end to the racing activities in 1938 and Enzo Ferrari decided to start his own racingcar business in 1940...

Before the second world war Alfa Romeo produced primarily rolling chassis as technical base for passenger automobiles. These rolling chassis were in most cases fitted with body designs created by the famous Italian bodywork artists like Touring and Zagato.
The rolling chassis type being manufactured by Alfa Romeo during these prewar years was the 6C. The 6C chassis/engine combination through the years: 1750/55 bhp. (from 1929), 1900/68 bhp. (from 1933), 2300/68-95 bhp. (from 1934) 2500/ 87-110 bhp. (from 1939).
Next to the Alfa Romeo 6C chassis/engine-combination Alfa Romeo introduced the 8C in the year 1931. The 8C chassis/ engine combination was primarily used for racing- and sportscars. The 8C engine featured eight cylinders-in-line, dry-sump engine lubrication and a blower (compressor) giving the engine a power output of 150 bhp.!
All Alfa Romeo models built before the second world war were fitted with the steering wheel on the right hand side of the car.

After the second world war Alfa Romeo started producing the 6C 2500 again which had been in production for over ten years already. Just in time the people in charge of Alfa Romeo realized that the industry had changed and that the market for large, expensive "tailor made" automobiles was increasing rapidly.
To survive they decided to reconsider their position and started preparing for standardized industrial automobile production as other manufacturers did before following the ideas of Henry Ford.

In the year 1949 the first result of the new Alfa Romeo era saw the light of day; the Alfa Romeo 1900!
The Alfa Romeo 1900 was the first Alfa Romeo built with a unitary bodywork construction (without separate chassis). The car was also the first fully industrial -mass- produced car to come out of the Alfa Romeo factory.
In the early fifties of the ninetieth century Alfa Romeo started to compete in racing-events again...racing their old prewar competition-cars and WINNING with Fangio behind the wheel! Soon thereafter Ferrari, Jaguar and Mercedes were back in winning position.

1954 was the year of introduction of the Alfa Romeo Giulietta series. The Alfa Romeo 1900 was still in production then but production was ceased in the year 1958. The Giulietta series included some very fine classics like the Bertone Sprint, Giulietta SS (Sprint Speciale) and the Pinin Farina Convertible.
The year 1962 saw the introduction of the Giulia series with a handsome, modern and sporty, four-door saloon, a Giulia Spider Veloce (successor of the Alfa Romeo Duetto), a Giulia GTV coupe model by Bertone and an impressive Zagato 1300 junior. The Giulietta SS was prolonged and renamed Giulia SS.

All Giulietta and Giulia models were characterized by their unitary bodywork construction, their powerfull aluminum alloy engines, double overhead camshafts and five speed gearboxes (with floor shift!), excellent roadholding capabilities and excellent body designs.
Alfa Romeo has the honour together with Mercedes Benz to have the greatest racing and sportscar history which continued over many decades. Regretfully it was that in the 1980'ies not very much was left that symbolized that great history. The cars coming out of the factory those days (Alfetta series) were more or less dull (many saloons), not very inspiring - except the Alfetta GTV, quality was poor and no one at Alfa Romeo was thinking of racing anymore for decades.

The Alfetta series was not the bestseller the Giulia has been for Alfa Romeo. Alfa Romeo did have a potential best seller; the Alfasud (a tremendous driver with boxer-engine!) Over one million were sold but overall quality was so bad, the car already rusted during production, that the Alfa Romeo name was crushed. In the mid-eighties Alfa Romeo was ready to shut the factory gates as it was reluctantly taken over by Fiat. It took Fiat/ Alfa Romeo almost fifteen years to rebuilt the old Alfa Romeo image by good marketing and by building better Alfa Romeo cars every generation. It started with the Alfa 33 (with boxer-engine), 75 and 164 (both with rear-wheel drive). Then the new generation 145, 146 and 155 followed (all front wheel drive) Specials were introduced at the same time which hit bulls eye; the GTV and the Spider!
The third generation put Alfa Romeo really back on the map of modern motoring enthusiasts; the Alfa Romeo 156, the 166 and the 147. All well designed by Alfa Romeo the then chief designer Walther de Silva.

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