1967 ALFA ROMEO DUETTO BOATAIL SPIDER

SOLD

Here is a spectacular little Alfa Romeo Duetto with some great history attached to it. It was on the cover of Road & Track magazine for the August 1989 issue. Prior to that it was in Road & Track in May, June and July 1983 issues under the title “Sports Car Restoration” by Thos L. Bryant. In these articles they restore this car as there project car. It didn’t hurt that R&T senior editor at the time John Lamm had owned the car prior to selling it to R&T assistant art director Richard Baron. Trying to make sense out of the records we have it appears sometime between this time period and 1989 the car changed ownership again back to John & Cynthia Lamm who in turn sold it in September 1989 to a Warren Braverman of Corolco Pictures on Sunset Boulevard and then Cinergi Productions here in Santa Monica. He must not have been totally happy with the paint and in turn had the famous restoration house of Hill & Vaughn (Phil Hill) in Marina Del Rey, CA. redo the car spending what seems to be, according to the records we have, in the range of $20,000.00, a good amount of money in 1989. We then purchased the car from Warren Braverman in December 1996 and sold it to a friend who owned it up until us just buying it back from him. The car has been enjoyed thoroughly and still shows amazingly well. The body is very straight and appears to be as solid as they come. The interior is in very nice condition with a beautiful Nardi wood rim steering wheel and the car drives very well indeed. The only flaw it has and a typical Alfa fault is reverse gear has a tendency to pop out so you just need to hold the gear lever to prevent it. One of those things that was there in 1996 when we had it and still there today, but easy to live with. Power comes from that wonderful free revving 1600cc twin overhead cam engine with twin Weber 40 DCOE carburetors that developed 125 horsepower and goes through a 5-speed gearbox. These were about as good as you could get when it came to great little sport cars with styling that can only be described as stunning. Finished in Red with a Black interior and Black convertible top and boot.