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\"Giulia<\/a><\/figure>\n

Every now and then it’s great to have a look at a concept for pure novelty value. This, though, is not the most outrageous concept to come out of Italy in the sixties, but for us it’s one of the most interesting.<\/p>\n

The Scarabeo Prototipo came as the result of a goodly boomtime for Alfa – the Guilietta had been selling hugely, and the ache of mediocrity that popular success sometimes brings must have become something of an unbearable itch. The idea was to develop a series of racing prototypes to offset the uncomfortably staid image of the Guilietta. Alfa had, after all, officially pulled out of racing as far back as 1953.<\/p>\n

\"966<\/a><\/figure>\n

In late 1964 Alfa sent three H-shaped racing chassis to OSI of Turin, a styling subsidiary of Ghia, and the stylists there came up with a variety of body treatments. One of the key features of the cars was a driving position way back in the middle of the chassis: which, it was thought, would give the driver maximum control; as well as necessitated that long low, flat nose and the squat, breadvan like rear end.<\/p>\n

One of the cool innovations the Scarabeo featured was that fuel tanks were incorporated into the large diameter tube chassis to distribute weight evenly: an idea that survives to this day and features in contemporary superbikes and some racing cars. This sensible idea was carried through to the lovely Tipo 33.<\/p>\n

Innovative materials such as magnesium was used in the car’s build, too and the clutch and gearbox were integrated into the main body of the engine.<\/p>\n

Two of the three chassis survive and are on display in the Alfa Museum – and the silver one apparently lives in a private collection somewhere in the wilds of Canada.<\/p>\n

\"966<\/a><\/figure>\n

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Check out this rare, scoop nosed beauty…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1779],"tags":[2721,1286,215,951,1586],"class_list":["post-26802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars","tag-alfa-romeo","tag-cars","tag-concept","tag-italian","tag-show","manufacturers-alfa-romeo"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nAlfa Scarabeo Concept | Influx Magazine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Not the most outrageous concept to come out of Italy in the sixties, but for Influx, this is one of the most interesting.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/cars\/alfa-scarabeo-concept\/\" \/>\n<meta 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