Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 Stradale

1968 Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 Stradale. Based on the Autodelta Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 racing car, designed by Franco Scaglione, and built by Carrozzeria Marazzi, made its debut at the 1967 Turin Motorshow. Only 18 Cars were made between November 1967 and March 1969 (rumor has it that another 5-6 chassis were sent to Pininfarina and Bertone for re-bodies). It features butterfly doors which curve upward into the roof of the vehicle. The car has an aluminum body on aluminum tubular chassis. Early models had twin headlights, replaced in the last ones by single lights. The position of the windscreen wiper, and even the number of them, is another thing that differentiates each example from the others. Also the late models have vents added behind both the front and rear wheels to allow hot air from the brakes to escape. The car has 13 inch Campagnolo wheels, the fronts eight and rears nine inches wide; there are Girling disc brakes on all four corners, the rear ones are inboard. Suspension is like in mid-1960s race car with upper and lower control arms in front and double trailing arms in the rear, along with substantial antiroll bars. The engine is a 2 liter dohc 90 degree dual-spark aluminum V8 capable of 230 hp. Like the race Car, the crankshaft is flat-plane. Carlo Chiti designed an oversquare (78 mm (3.1 in) bore x 52.2 mm (2.1 in) stroke) 10.5:1 compression ratio dry-sump lubricated that featured SPICA fuel injection, four ignition coils and 16 spark plugs and had a rev-limit of 10,000 rpm. The engine produced 230 hp (172 kW) at 8,800 rpm but this varied from Car to Car.Like on the racing car the transmission was a six-speed Colotti transaxle gearbox. Arguably the handsomest car ever built