[Omphalos]

Cars don’t come much rarer than this Alfa Romeo Michelotti Conrero. Tipped off by Abarth guru Tony Berni, we travelled to Brescia to find this original yellow one-off, supplied to us by Fiat main dealer Pierangelo Pasini, of Franzoni Auto. We drove to nearby Villa Badia Piccola for our photo location. Michelotti made the camera lie, as the proportions of this coupe are that of a big car. Pictures make it look Alfa 2600-sized but it is actually the size of the 1956 Giulietta Sprint Veloce (1,300cc) underneath. Nicknamed ‘Goccia’ (pronounced gotcha) it is Italian for ‘drop’, as in teardrop. It was in 1961 that the car acquired its Michelotti body and Conrero motor. Definitely not a Motor Show poseur, this car has period competition history. Driven by Munaron and De Leonibus, it ran at Monza in 1961 in the Coppa Ascari 6-hours where it vied for the lead against the works Alfa SZ of Sanesi before a transmission problem dropped the ‘drop’ to seventh. Monza races apart, other outings include a class win in the 1961 Aosta-Pila Hillclimb. ...

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