{"id":6568,"date":"2020-03-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/50-years-of-alfa-romeo-montreal\/"},"modified":"2020-10-09T11:17:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T11:17:05","slug":"50-years-of-alfa-romeo-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/50-years-of-alfa-romeo-montreal\/","title":{"rendered":"50 Years of Alfa Romeo Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Actually, the vehicle whose 50th anniversary we want to celebrate here today would never have existed by plans of the brand alone. The trigger for its creation was a call from the organisers of the 1967 Expo world fair to the management of Alfa Romeo. With a view to the future direction of this exhibition, the basic theme ‘Man and His world’ was to be illuminated in all its facets. One section was dedicated to the motto ‘Man the Producer’ as an exhibition area for industrially manufactured goods. Without doubt, this also includes the automobile. We don’t know exactly why it was the idea in Canada to call Alfa Romeo on behalf of this theme to ask for a sensational concept car. The choice of the name ‘Montreal’ for this car on the other hand seems logial: the Expo 1967 took place in this Canadian metropolis. However, the concept car was still nameless on the way to the fair. During the Expo, the name developed as a call sign and was finally officially adopted for it.

Alfa Romeo joined forces with the design house Bertone, where at the time the young and talented car designer Marcello Gandini was rising to the top of his profession. He designed an exceptional coup\u00e9 with intertwined B and C pillars, louvre grilles in front of the headlights and side air intakes behind the doors, which suggests that he envisioned a mid-engine as the drive concept. This could have been viewed by passers-by through the large glass tailgate. With a length of only 4.22 meters, the Montreal study was very compact. Two roadworthy examples are being built for the World Expo, but for time and financial reasons they are based on the Giulia with a four-cylinder front-mounted engine. In Montreal, both cars were exhibited between mirrors in such a way that they have been optically multiplied infinitely. Up to 500,000 Expo visitors per day looked at this sports car, among others. Soon Alfa Romeo received many inquiries from North America and the rest of the world, who wanted a series version of the white painted prototypes.<\/p>\n\n\n

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