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no, that is not it, it is a special body made by Vignale on the 507, in an attempt to be invited to make more of those. BMW kindly refused it and continued to produce the 507 as we know it.Originally Posted by aha100
This is the prototype, made by Veritas man Ernst Loof.
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thanks anyway, and welcome to UCP. You can be assured that Matt has already got all the pics he wanted
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Thanks for the warm welcome, posted the wrong pic earlier, just wanted to find out if anybody knewthanks anyway, and welcome to UCP. You can be assured that Matt has already got all the pics he wanted
here is the right one, by far not as good as yours though, I' ll be working on it !
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i took my pics when I was there, that sometimes helps
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Thanks for the photos of the Canguro at Villa D'Este. The car was sold from Germany to Japan something like 10 years ago, but I had not seen anything on the car until it apperaed in the entry list for Villa D'Este...
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Welcome to UCP, nice user name
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I will add it to the database as well with a lot more pictures, but I'm still collecting details on the car and its provenance.
PS. It's good to see a f-chat member here
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In case anyone is interested, Canguro means Kangaroo in Italian.
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A sleek engine. Beautiful car, amazing engine!
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The Canguro is esentually a street version of an Alfa TZ, with a tube chassis and a 1600cc 4 cylinder motor. It was inteded to become a production street version of the TZ, but only one was ever built. It was scrapped, and Gary Schmid rescuded the remains from Alfa's junkyard around 1971. He started on the restoration, but it was never compleated. The car was sold to Japan something like 10 years ago, and the new owner restored it and showed it for the first time at the Villa d'Este Concours last month.
I would estimate the value of the car at around 1 million dollars.
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Interestingly the Italian Alfa Romeo mechanic who brought the car claimed it has 1300 litre engine. A regular 1600 engine should not be too hard to source.
On another note, here are some pictures of what Pininfarina created on a TZ chassis:
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In which year did they do that?
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1965 I'd say.
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WRC - That's motorsport!
"If you can see the tree you are about to hit, it is called 'understeering'. If you can only hear and feel it, it was 'oversteering'."
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Now I am not so sure anymore; the only reference I have to this car claims it has unitary chassis based on the regular Giulia. Looking at how low the car and especially the bonnet/hood is, I highly doubt it.
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