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about the same time, but with four rather than five speeds forward (an easy conversion to 5-speeds was popular among enthusiasts). While not understood at the time, these changes to a "beefier" driveline set the stage for a 1600 cc version, which would be called the Giulia (Giulietta is the diminutive of Giulia).
The Giulia Sprint, -worth waiting for. This is a 1972 2-litre GT Veloce. 132bhp propels the car to quiet amazing 200 km/h.
The Alfa Romeo Montreal has a 2,6-litre V8 delivering 200bhp. The new 1600 engine appeared in 1962, first in a boxy little sedan called the Giulia TI. The Giulia offered the power of a Giulietta Veloce with none of its fussiness, while Bosch electrics gave a great improvement in reliability. To fill out Alfa's marketing technique of offering a sedan, coupe and spider in a model line, the popular Giulietta spider and sprint bodies were carried over with the new engine. It was clear, however, that unique Giulia bodies were just around the corner for both spider and coupe. But even in the 1960s, enthusiasts knew that a new model from Alfa takes a very long time, indeed. In 1963, the Giulietta Sprint Speciale was upgraded to the Giulia engine, and the 1600 engine finally received dual DCOE Weber carburetors, continuing the "Veloce" line of the Giulietta. The same engine was also installed in a tube-framed, Zagatobodied car Alfa had been working on since 1959: the TZ. One month after the engine appeared in the Sprint Speciale it was
Bertone re-shaped the Giulietta bodywork into this Sprint Speciale in 1963 for Alfa Romeo, in order for the factory to have a competitive works-car that could beat the unauthorized Zagato aluminium-bodied cars. It never succeded, -it was simply to heavy. So Zagato’s Giulia SZ/TZ and TZ2 took over as official Alfa Romeo Cars. introduced in a racing version of the Giulia sedan, the TI Super. In May, 1964, the engine was installed in the spider body to