That's an interesting story; In '65 Alfa produced the last of the 101 series Giulia Spiders and was about to announce the Duetto for '66. 35 years previously Alfa was famous, as it still is, for its 6c 1750 Zagato roadsters.
As we all know, 1750 Alfas were second to none in their quality, drivability and sporting character. To commemorate that, at the suggestion of the great Italian automobile magazine, Quatroruote, which means "four wheels" in Italian, Alfa and Zagato got together and produced a *very* limited run of "Quatroruote" (4R) Zagato Spiders. Obviously, since all of the original parties did this, it is not a "replica" in the sense of those shoddy representations of something which was, made out of something which isn't by those who shouldn't, but literally a 1966 Alfa which looks like a 1931 Alfa. Hell, Morgan's been doing it all along. They just didn't go through the intervening changes.
The odd thing about the 4R in my mind is, it is a tribute to the "1750", but it is a 1600 and predates the later 1750s by several years. For the record, the 4R Zagatos were literally the last of the 101 series Alfas built, even though 105 series cars had been in production since 1962.
Five TZ-1s at Monterey, August 1985
same scene
TZ-1 in detail
TZ-2
Next stop: 1300 GT Junior, 1750 GTV, GTV, Montreal, Spider
and some group pictures (end sequence)
Copyright and Copy, December, 1995:
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