Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Veloce Alleggerita - with ease to success

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Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Veloce Alleggerita - with ease to success

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Created on April 26, 2017

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Bruno von Rotz

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Daniel Reinhard

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Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Veloce Allegerita (1956) - Blue suits the Alfa very well

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Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Veloce Allegerita (1956) - with side sliding windows

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Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Veloce Allegerita (1956) - elegant and timeless design

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Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Veloce Allegerita (1956) - note the window frames on the driver's door - only the lightweight version had them like this

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Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Veloce Allegerita (1956) - the variant with aluminum doors/lids was around 70 kg lighter when dry

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Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Veloce Allegerita (1956) - you have to take a closer look to distinguish the Veloce version from its slower sisters

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Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Veloce Allegerita (1956) - sporty interior - nothing is superfluous - comfort is missing

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Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Veloce Allegerita (1956) - the aluminum four-cylinder with two Weber twin carburetors and special intake system

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Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint (1954) - the prototype had a tailgate that opened to the side (like the E-Type later)

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Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint (1955) - with characteristic Alfa face

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Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint (1954) - the twin-camshaft engine with Solex carburetor

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Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint 1300 (1954) - Presentation in a beautiful setting

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Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint (1954) - from the work of Bertone

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Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint (1955) - elegant coupé designed by Franco Scaglione at Bertone

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Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Veloce (1956) - the fast version in the see-through drawing

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Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint (1955) - USA version

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Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Veloce (1959) - with 90 hp, but without lightweight bodywork

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Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint (1957) - charmingly presented

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Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint (1955) - Actress Anna Proclemer and Giorgio Albertazzi both drove Alfa

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Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint (1964) - with the 1.6-liter engine

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Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Veloce (1961) - magnificent coupé

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Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Veloce (1957) - the lightweight, fast version

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Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Veloce (1956) - with sliding windows and aluminum doors

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Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Veloce (1958) - elegantly presented

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Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Veloce (1956) - lightweight construction made transparent

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Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Veloce (1956) - Performance diagram

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Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Veloce (1956) - during test drives at the 1956 Geneva Motor Show

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Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Veloce (1956) - during test drives in Geneva

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Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Veloce (1958) - more luxurious version without sliding windows

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Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Veloce (1958) - at the Mitholz-Kandersteg hill climb in 1961

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Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Veloce (1956) - Karl Foitek at the wheel of his Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Veloce at the Lenzerheide hill climb in 1957

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Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Veloce (1958) - Grand at the Mitholz-Kandersteg hill climb in 1960

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Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint (1959) - Karl Foitek at the Vaduz-Triesenberg hill climb in 1959

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Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Veloce (1960) - Ernst Schmid in the coupe customized by Karl Foitek

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Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint (1959) - with Swiss license plates at a rally

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Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint (1962) - in winter on snow

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Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Veloce (1957) - with factory test driver Maccabruni on the test drive - Geneva Motor Show 1957

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Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint (1962) - Illustration in a sales brochure

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Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint (1962) at the Geneva Motor Show - unchanged, but still popular

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Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint 1600 (1964) - elegantly presented

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Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint GT (1964) - View of the interior

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Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint (1963) - visually hardly changed compared to the earlier versions, but now with a 1600cc engine

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Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint (1954) - Maquette - Wooden skeleton

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Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint (1954) - in the Museo nazionale dell`automobile di Torino

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Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint (1954) - in the Museo nazionale dell`automobile di Torino

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Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint (1954) - in the Museo nazionale dell`automobile di Torino

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Summary

From 1954 to 1965, Alfa Romeo built around 33,000 of the Giulietta Sprint Coupé and its successor, the Giulia. Only around 500 to 600 of these were Veloce models with a lightweight body in combination with the 1.3-liter engine and 90 hp. Back then, they were good for countless class victories in motor racing and today this version guarantees high prices. This report tells the story of the special Giulietta Sprint version and shows it and other variants in current and historical images.

This article contains the following chapters

A small Alfa Romeo
Popular sports car
Stronger and faster
Extensively revised
A serious opponent for the Porsche
A valuable icon
Further information

Estimated reading time: 7min

Preview (beginning of the article)

"Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Veloce Alleggerita" - if you know how to pronounce Italian and intonate this sequence of letters, you can almost guess how good the car sounded with this designation. And it was! As a surprise, Alfa Romeo presented the new Giulietta Sprint at the Turin Motor Show in the spring of 1954, rounding off the range downwards, so to speak. The original plan was to present the four-door saloon, but it turned out that development had not progressed as quickly as planned. It was also announced that the preparation of the presses for the bodies of the touring car would take even longer.

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