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The Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale - the birthday boy in a historic test

Name: Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale 1969
Brand: Alfa Romeo

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Created on September 27, 1969

Text:

Manfred Jantke

Photos:

Daniel Reinhard

Bruno von Rotz

Alfa Romeo / FCA Group / Werk

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Daniel Reinhard

Bruno von Rotz

Alfa Romeo / FCA Group / Werk

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Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale (1967) - back when it was still new

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Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale (1968) - forward-opening butterfly doors as a characteristic design attribute

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Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale (1968) at the Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este 2011

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The Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale from 1968 rightly won the "Best of Show" prize at the Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este 2011

Bild von Partner Porsche AMAG Mai Foto-Galerie 2026

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Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale (1968) - Perfectly shaped elegance, Franco Scaglione had done a great job

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Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale (1968) at the Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este 2011 - race-proven eight-cylinder engine with dual ignition

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Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale (1967) - in the Museo Storico Alfa Romeo Arese

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Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale (1967) - the prototype in the exhibition of the Museo Storico Alfa Romeo

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Techno Classica 2011 - Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale steals the show from its modern descendant

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Techno Classica 2011 - Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale (prototype) at the Alfa Romeo stand - it is interesting that the windshield wiper is not (or no longer?) mounted at the top

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Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale (1967) - View of the interior of the sports car (Techno Classica 2013)

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Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale (1967) - the rear of the super sports car (Techno Classica 2013)

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Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale (1967) - over 260 km/ fast, a super sports car of its time (Techno Classica 2013)

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Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale (1967) - in the background the more civilian Giulietta sports version (Techno Classica 2013)

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Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale (1967) - next to its racing brother (Techno Classica 2013)

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Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale (1967) - seen through the eyes of its racing brother (Techno Classica 2013)

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Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale (1967) - rear view of the racing version and the road version (Techno Classica 2013)

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Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale (1967) - the lettering on the rear (Techno Classica 2013)

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Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 Daytona (1968) - with number H4 in the Concours d'Elégance at the Schloss Bensberg Classics 2015

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Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale (1968) - one of the most beautiful cars in the world - the prototype can be recognized by the double headlights and the top-mounted windscreen wiper

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Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale (1968) - attractive rear view of the prototype

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Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale (1968) - Access through upward-opening doors

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Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale (1968) - at an exhibition in the eighties

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Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale (1968) - at the 1968 Geneva Motor Show

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Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale (1967) - View into the spartan cockpit

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Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale (1970) - View of the V8 engine

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Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale (1968) - shown at a sports car exhibition

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Summary

On August 31, 1967, Alfa Romeo presented the Tipo 33 in Monza. Scaglione's design masterpiece is still one of the most beautiful sports cars of all eras. In its day, it was one of the fastest cars you could buy for the road. However, its suitability for everyday use was not beyond all doubt, as a test drive by Manfred Jantke for the magazine "Auto Motor und Sport" impressively demonstrated. To mark the 50th anniversary of the Alfa Romeo 33, this article reproduces the original wording of the test at the time and shows the beauty in many historical and current pictures.

This article contains the following chapters

The road-going version
Plenty of space in the eye-catching exotic
Road car hardly any different from the racing car
No door locks
Hot inside and out
Better on the racetrack
Loud and hearty
Agile and uncompromising
As useful as a GT40

Estimated reading time: 6min

Preview (beginning of the article)

It will come as a surprise to many that we also knocked on Alfa Romeo's door on our trip to Italy's dream sports cars. Few people know that you can buy a 70,000 mark sports car from Alfa that is equally at home on the racetrack and in beauty contests: the Tipo 33 Strada. At Alfa Romeo's headquarters, the old factory in the center of Milan, we didn't find the expensive piece at first. Everything here is geared towards production cars, as annual production has exceeded the 100,000 unit mark. This is why Alfa Romeo now has a separate racing factory in another part of Milan, the Autodelta company. It is responsible for the really fast things and this is where anyone looking for the Tipo 33 Strada has to go. The racing version 33 Daytona is also built there.

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