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Tubolare Zagato - the glorious, beautiful Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ

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Created on December 28, 2013

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Bruno von Rotz

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ (1963) - shook up the GT competition at the time

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ (1963) - pretty as a picture and also successful

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ (1963) - the fast racing car even had triangular opening windows

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ (1963) - the headlights were also shuttered

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ (1963) - with the famous Alfa Romeo air intake

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ (1963) - thoroughbred racing car with tubular frame

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ (1963) - on the Balocco test circuit

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ (1963) - elegant sports car bodywork

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ (1963) - Peter Wyss almost didn't want to get out of the car

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ (1963) - fast on the road

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ (1963) - the unmuffled exhaust exudes pure racing acoustics

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ (1963) - well over 200 km/h thanks to ingenious aerodynamics

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ (1963) - one of 112 cars built

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ (1963) - only a few examples were fitted with a plastic body

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ (1963) - worth many times as much today as it was back then

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ (1963) - optimized for minimum air resistance

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ (1963) - one of the most beautiful GT sports cars of the sixties

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ (1963) - almost 170 hp available

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ (1963) - this was the rear end seen by most competitors at the time

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ (1963) - a tubular frame provides stability under the streamlined bodywork

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ (1963) - racing-oriented cockpit without frills

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ (1963) - at least there is a km/h display that can show up to 260

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ (1963) - five gears, the gear lever is ideally positioned

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ (1963) - the 1.6-liter engine with double overhead camshaft

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ (1963) - the 1.6-liter engine produces around 170 hp

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ (1963) - with additional cooling vents open

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ (1963) - the exhaust is an unmuffled flame pipe

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ (1963) - comb rear for optimum stall

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Alfa Romeo Giulietta SZ (1961) - predecessor of the Giulia TZ, the shape was also largely retained for the Giulia TZ

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Alfa Romeo Giulietta SZ (1962) - streamlined and minimalist, yet elegant

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Alfa Romeo Giulietta SZ (1962) - elegant Zagato creation in aluminum

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ (1962) - Premiere at the 1962 Turin Motor Show, the front was not yet in its final form

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ (1962) - Premiere at the 1962 Turin Motor Show, the rear end was not yet in its final form

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ (1962) - Front suspension

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ (1962) - Rear suspension

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ (1962) - Rear suspension

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ (1963) - at the 1963 Turin Motor Show

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ (1963) - at the 1963 Turin Motor Show

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ (1963) - at the Turin Motor Show

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ (1963) - the spare wheel in the rear

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ (1963) - tubular frame and lightweight construction by Zagato

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Alfa Romeo Giulia Tubolare Zagato - tubular frame

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ (1963) - Racing technology attractively packaged by Zagato

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ (1963) - front view

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ (1963) - the design of the rear end increased the top speed

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ (1964) - front view with additional ventilation options for the engine - here closed

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ (1963) - 102 units were built

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ (1963) - front view

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ (1963) - the streamlined bodywork was created by Zagato

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ (1964) - the streamlined crested rear end

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ (1964) - the rear end changed again after the premiere in Turin, here the final version at the Geneva Motor Show

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ (1964) - at the 1964 Sebring race, Bussinello-Bulgari-Sanes retired after coming into the line of fire of a Cobra

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ (1964) - Class victory at the 1964 Targa Florio, the picture shows the car finishing in 4th place

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ (1965) - a race-proven specimen

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ (1964) - This Giulia from Scuderia Sant Ambroeus achieved 26th place (12 Hours of Sebring 1964)

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ (1963) - at its debut at the 1963 Coppa FISA with Lorenzo Bandini, who won the class

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ (1964) - during test drives in Balocco in 1965

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ 2 (1965) - on the Balocco test track

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ (1964) - Rolland-Augias were overall winners of the Coupes des Alpes 1964

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ 1 (1963) - at a beauty contest in 1986

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ (1963) - in the Alfa Romeo Museum

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ 2 (1965) - in the Alfa Romeo factory museum

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ 2 (1966) - even flatter and more efficient than its predecessor

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ 2 (1965) - during test drives in Balocco in 1965

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ 2 (1965) - Andrey/"Geki" were class winners at Sebring in 1966

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Alfa Romeo Giulia 1600 Canguro (1964) - beautiful coupé by Bertone

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Alfa Romeo Canguro (1964) - the bold design influenced many later sports cars

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Alfa Romeo Canguro (1964) - with open hood

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Alfa Romeo Canguro (1964) - beautiful coupé

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Alfa Romeo Giulia Sport Coupé Speciale Pininfarina (1966) - photographed at the Geneva Motor Show

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Alfa Romeo Giulia Sport Coupé Speciale Pininfarina (1966) - photographed in Turin

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Alfa Romeo Giulia Sport Coupé Speciale Pininfarina (1966) - beautiful one-off model

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Alfa Romeo Giulia Sport Coupé Speciale Pininfarina (1966) - the flowing lines were created by Pininfarina

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ (1964) - on the occasion of the Zagato special show at the Pantheon Basel 2016/2017

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Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ (1964) - on the occasion of the Zagato special show at the Pantheon Basel 2016/2017

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Summary

Between 1963 and 1967, the collaboration between Alfa Romeo, Auto Delta and Zagato produced a good 120 examples of the Giulia TZ in two series (TZ1, TZ2). They were almost uncompromising racing cars and were responsible for many class and overall victories. They were characterized by their low weight and exceptionally streamlined bodywork. This report traces the history of the Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ, portrays an original vehicle in detail and shows many archive photos.

This article contains the following chapters

Presentation in Turin in 1962
A thoroughbred racing car
Expensive, but also competitive
Less suitable for everyday use
The even sharper evolutionary stage
The even more beautiful special bodies
Pure driving pleasure
Further information

Estimated reading time: 8min

Preview (beginning of the article)

Work on the Giulia Tulbolare Zagato began as early as 1959, when the Alfa Romeo Giulia had not even been fully developed. But Zagato worked closely with Alfa Romeo and therefore had access to the development data. For Alfa Romeo, on the other hand, Elio and Ugo Zagato were ideal partners, as their designs proved to be very successful in motor racing. They faithfully followed the motto that a sports car had to be reliable, lightweight and have low drag. The Giulia TZ from 1963 was the perfect realization of this maxim. The car was shown for the first time in prototype form at the Turin Motor Show in the late fall of 1962. The Automobil Revue wrote in its motor show report:

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