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| You are probably more accurate than I... |
| jbhouse 04-17-2008 |
I was recalling a conversation with Annie, his widow, when I wrote my last post. You are probably correct in the location of the garage, as I wasn't sure. I would love to see some additional images of the Canguro, if you have any available. |
| Not the whole truth |
| floriodaliver 05-12-2007 |
First of all, you have to excuse my english. I didn´t use it for several years... The new front part of the Canguro was not built in Japan but in Germany. The car stayed in a small but very special garage near the city of Ulm. There it was rebuilt in the following way: Original pictures were digitalized and several 1:1 drawings from front/up/sideview were made. From these drawings, a "manecchino" was crafted on which the aluminium-sheets were fitted. After all, the new front-part was finished exactly in the way it looks today. The same garage that reproduced the Canguro made some other work for Mr.Schmidt like his GT Junior in GTA-look (even the roof was taken off) and his Audi Quattro Short Wheel Base Coupé, once damaged on the road... It´s possible that somewhere I have some pictures to proof the story above... |
| ...the story is even more interesting... |
| jbhouse 02-27-2007 |
Gary Schmidt was a friend back in the 70's: He was a counselor at Bitburg High School when I was a student and an avid Ferrari collector, owning about a dozen, as I recall. We lived near the Nurburgring and he and his wife, Annie would show the cars at the Oldtimer Races. I recall the transaction with the Canguro: he had a contact that mentioned this one-off Alfa supercar that had been wrecked on Monza's parabola curve by an Italian journalist only a month or so after its introduction and decision to go into production. Shortly after the wreck, Alfa decided not to go into production and scrapped the Canguro project. Gary went to Italy and found the little sports car, still bent and partially stripped, in the back of the factory and bought it, for the princely sum of $40. As many of the parts were interchangeable with other Alfas of that era, he went about scavenging parts and assembling with little success. The hood was being manufactured in Japan and he apparently was not satisfied with the fit and contour match, but while there the car developed some attention among auto buyers. He retired from the DoD school system in 1992 and sold the car in 1994 to the Japanese businessman in the photo, a gentleman that collected Arbarths in a small museum. The car was restored and shown again. Gary never saw the completed car. He moved to Oregon and passed away in 2003, according to Annie. Interesting story.... |
| Stunning car and amazing story |
| Spyder64 09-21-2005 |
Great design. Wonderful that it is back. Can't wait to find a complete story in one of the hard copy magazines. Hope Gary Schmid did well in the transaction.... |
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| henk4 08-09-2005 |
When the car was presented at Villa d'Este it was accompanied by an official Alfa Romeo mechanic, who claimed that the engine displaced only 1300 cc, in the interest of saving weight. Now his English was not top of the bill, but it would be interesting to know whether this really is the case, or that a 1300 engine was installed when the front part of the car was rebuilt. |
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