Alfa romeo flying saucer. 110 years after its foundation alfa romeo returns to its roots bringing back one of the legends of its history and of motoring in general. With the three litre six cylinder 6c 3000 cm alfa romeo made a brief and successful appearance in various sportscar races. Quadrifoglio the quadrifoglio is the emblem that distinguishes our most competitive models.
This is the official f1 site of alfa romeo racing. Flying saucers were what frank zappa called a real scene in the early 1950s. It means flying saucer in english and besides the question of country of origin you can see why touring chose not to use the translation when they named their beautifully bodied alfa romeo 1900 after a ufo.
View the new 2020 alfa romeo lineup visit an alfa romeo dealer near you. Alfa disco volante alfa romeo disco volante alfas flying saucers disco volante history of the alfa disco volante the 2 and 3 liter disco volantes. The alfa romeo 1900 c52 disco volante commonly known simply as alfa romeo disco volante italian for flying saucer is a series of experimental sports racing cars produced between 1952 and 1953 by italian car manufacturer alfa romeo in collaboration with milanese coachbuilder carrozzeria touring.
Find out more about the team and our partners. After the flying saucers. Alfa romeo disco volante c52 june 12 2018 by pete in the summer of 1952 on july 19th and again on july 26th there were both radar and visual sightings of flying saucers in and around washington dc and throughout the summer there were similar incidents all over the world.
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The disco volante or in english the flying saucer was largely the baby of gioachino colombo and the body styling was by the carrozzeria touring superleggera. Find out more about the team and our partners. It seemed everyone was thinking about them and not just in science fiction stories and films.
When alfa romeo commissioned the designers at touring superleggera to create a prototype for a new line of sports cars they came up with the form pictured below and they called it the disco volante flying saucer.