R.I.P. the Judge. The motor was in a Holden Ute for a while (?), then the owner went all out by using the Giocattolo body. Twin turbo, 750hp from a Holden V8 was impressive in 2001.
Never understood how reverse direction was EVER allowed, whatever happens be it mechanical or driver problem there's just nowhere to go, a funnel basically. His last moments must have been so horrific.
@@fatasdat I couldn't remember, but there's a video. At Summernats it made 856hp, but they had to wind the boost back to qualify for the competition. 747hp on 14.5 lb of boost.
Great tribute to this Aussie creation!Love the bundy flask too. I remember "The Judge" drag racing, it was such a weapon. But a tragedy to the driver and his family/friends.
I'm one of those whose age lets me remember when these were first announced. I got advice on how to pronounce the name correctly from my Italian neighbor. I've had to wait until now to see one in anything but a picture. Worth the wait. Thanks very much.
I love discovering cars I have never heard of, and this was one of those. Thank you for the video, very interesting, and what a beautiful looking thing.
Its amazing seeing neat vintage cars for the 1st time that never came to the US. Australia has awesome and unique car culture. Keep upnthe good work- this video is great!
THANK YOU You tube algorithm.! I remember a picture of this in the dim and distant past in 'Motorsport' magazine it was a small picture and it was about the Tasmania rally'. Maybe even this on the video!Kept that mag for ages. Fantastic car.!!! Once more thank you from the UK!
Caloundra QLD could have been 1986, I was part of a workshop tour and remember there was a small bottle of Bundy Rum in the display tool box. The impression I got overall was "These guys could do anything they set their mind to". Thanks for the memories.
Paul had the original Toy Shop in North Sydney and a workshop up in Artarmon. I was with BMW and had access to lots of Getrag special tools and used to pop up and build a few ‘Special’ boxes for him on the side. These cars were marketed by Alan Jones among others.
I was in high school back in the mid-eighties and every month the school would receive a new edition of Wheels and Modern Motor magazines and when I saw this car in the pages (I'm pretty sure both magazines ran an article) it totally blew my mind, it seemed absurd to me to put a 5.0L V8 in a small car, but it looked jaw droppingly gorgeous. Because of the unusual name I'd sort of forgotten about the car for about 30+ years so when this video came up on my feed, the name just triggered something in my mind. gorgeous, Thanks for the video, and thanks for bringing back an old school time memory, it's nice to know I can remember that far back. 😀
Back in the early 90's my old boss had one. He use to do targa tas in it. He also won a prize at the summer nats. Got to go for a ride in it one day, sounded amazing and it sure did turn heads
Me being American I do appreciate that car. Imagine if Alfa had helped him it could have been a great success story. Selling in other countries as well. In America that car in 1986 would have had too much horsepower to be legal. A Ferrari at the time only had about 200 ponies. Very interesting I like to discover cars I've never heard of.
Great review and vid. I always wondered what happened to these cars and have kept a look out to see if they ever come up for sale. Still fantastic to this day! How short sighted, but entirely predictable by Alfa! Would love to see a roadie of the car.
I remember the jaw dropping moment I had when I read a magazine article about this car, full credit to its creator for his effort to bring it to reality, only problem is, there aren’t enough of them out there, thanks for the video
The lost car mentioned was running sprints around Sydney Motorsport Park, where WTAC is held (in the past it was home to the Australian Motorcycle Race Grand Prix as well.) The sprints were, for some reason, run in reverse to the normal anti-clockwise direction of the circuit and the bloke ran out of track at the of the straight...
Would certainly be an interesting road test. Maybe not the best choice to tarmac rally due to the rarity, it would be almost impossible to replace and a fortune to clone
I think "fortune" is a bit much... but most definitely goddamn expensive! I mean, the guy was pulling parts off of cars that they had no idea would go on to be rare, classic, automotive royalty! Who can afford that engine, and where would you even get the tranny from, lol!
A dream car from all the early magazines. I remember Tony Ricciardello somewhat building his own GTV based version and seeing that at Sandown dominate the field was impressive. That shape and chassis was a great platform. A factory built car is always just a touch more exciting though.
Correct pronunciation GI-CAT-OLLO, I used to work at Mercury Mufflers, we made the exhausts for them...I also have an original factory brochure for them also if someone wants to buy it...
I remember this car because my dad was a mechanic at the time. I also remember a young guy who was racing his yellow one of these at a race track in Australia many many years ago if I remember correctly and had a very high speed crash coming down the straight right into the wall killing him instantly. I remember seeing the video footage probably close to 30 years ago.
Alfa Sprint was such a great design, too bad Alfa never turned to be economically healthy to continue something like this. But this V8 sounds magnificent.
i obviously know what it means and your spelling is no more instructive or correct than mine and as a native english speaker i obviously would argue my spelling is the easiest way to help others approach the correct pronunciation, your comment wasnt needed and added nothing @@augustinf
@@AlbertManiscalco i would disagree; not everybody knows what it means on one hand; and your transcription is complete shit and so approximative that you didn’t add anything to the video’s pronounciation. You gave an even shittier version. You’re probably the type of guy who wouldn’t mind being called “Daniel Ree-tchar-do” and getting your name butchered.
I remember some nob jockey drag racing at eastern creek, after he made a pass, the dipshit decided to do a 180 and nail it, towards a concrete effin wall. Needless to say, he's 6 foot under.
CORRECTION: @ 00:28 the narrator says "it was a genuine production car," NO, no it was not. To be classified as a "production" usually 50, but in some cases a bare minimum of 15 road legal, available to the public, examples must be built. ONLY 12 were ever built for public sale, the other 3 were prototypes, and were never offered to the public. MEANING THIS IS NOT A PRODUCTION CAR. The Giacoletto falls under the category of a "BOUTIQUE CAR." Also, for a car to have raced in Group B racing that car must be homologated. In Group B to be homogalated no less than 200, road legal, available to the public examples needed to be built. Having only ever built 15, and only 12 certified road legal, the Giacoletto was never certified for Group B racing. The Giacoletto is a super cool piece of automotive history, but ultimately it is an example of a mans failed dream, and can not be considered "a genuine production car."
@@inCARnationAustralia GREAT car though, I love it 👍😊, she's gorgeous. Always had a soft spot for hatchbacks. Ever heard of the Ford SHOgun? Very similar story to this one (except Ford approved, where Alfa did not) with a very similar car to this one (well, more like a Lancia Delta Integrale). The story's even the same. A dealer saw a hot hatch, wanted to take a bigger engine from the front of a bigger car by the same manufacturer, and put it in the rear mid chassis area. Difference is 1) Designers never intended it for racing, it was always just supposed to be a special order sports car (wait, maybe that's even the same too?!?) and 2) Ford approved and gave them both the go ahead and resources to make it happen. Anyways, I bring it up because it's a mostly unheard of car, again like the Giacoletto, and is very, very similar in both story and design, so I though you might like it 😊 Jay Leno did a good piece on it, lemme find you the link, one sec... th-cam.com/video/3XR9SoQU16c/w-d-xo.htmlsi=EFNLKTLFwbjsg0wW Great piece on the Giacoletto boss 👍 enjoy the Jay Leno piece, and have an excellent day man! 😎
Kaplan car is the best. Sequential and probably by the sounds of it the 18 degree supercar motor out of his Walkinshaw. Makes all the original ones look tame.
Back in '91 there was one mint, low kms (6,000kms) for sale in the local classifieds..bloke was asking $59,950 and it sat unsold for about a year. Found out some years later he accepted an offer of $45k.
I had a cobalt blue one when todd willks was alive and just by chance we would somehow always seem to bump into each other in Brisbane city and end up doing laps of the city mine was a little louder than his so I always went a bit slower cause any cars parked on the roads would have their alarms set off as I drove by. I remember the day seeing on the news where Todd had his accident and I parked my car in the shed and just forgot about it for about a month and a half. I ended up selling it and didn't drive for about a year.
Great cars. I’d love one, but would also love a Pantera. ;) Such a shame with the timing of their launch. $90k in 1987 was a hell of a lot. The average salary was around $25k. A house in Melbourne was around $120k.
In 86 we paid $45,000 for our house in Seddon,(West Footscray). 4 br, 2 bathroom, huge sunroom, lounge and kitchen. Office. Brick garage and enough room for my 2 cars, 2 bikes and my 2 courier vans. That house is now worth over $1,000,000. I remember houses in Prahran going that cheap at the time it was laughable, given the proximity to the Melbourne CBD, not to mention the South Yarra/Chapel Street shopping strip.
Why would Paul Haulstead throw away the body panels and engine of a brand new Alfa Sprint? He could have recouped some costs by selling the parts But please yes if you can do a video review would love that!
I have a memory of Sydney Motor Sport Park.. before the drag strip.. they just had runs down hill on the straight.. This rocket went past my sons and I… faster than anything else we had seen.. then a tragedy accident at the end.. just ran out of brakes.. at that point I had to usher my boys home with stories of.. They build these cars strong, he’ll be ok.. don’t worry..😢
Yes very sad and sobering. And a lengthy inquest and legal stoush. In retrospect it seems farcically ill-conceived. If they ran up the hill, heaps of bumpy runoff.
Great video! Australia is an awesome country with odd wonders as the kangaroo and the Giocatollo. Enthusiasts thank you for bringing this super interesting and unknown information about the history of automobiles. Greetings from Brazil.
As much as this car may look cute, it has one huge flaw to my eyes: FWD. PS FYI correct pronunciation in Italian, quite surprisingly, is "giocàttolo", not "giocattòlo".
You beat it by six seconds, because the Giocattolo doesn't steer or stop well. Smaller and tighter the course gets, the further ahead everything else is.
It's probably worth commenting that Andrew drove like a demon that day in a twenty year old RWD Mazda. On that stage we were 16th outright in a field of 150 cars, beat every Porsche in the field, including the GT3s except for the GT2RS. The stage is not too slow - mainly right angle corners but a few 300 and 400m straights, so it suits powerful cars too. The Giocattolo's time was very good too. I had very little to do as navigator for 3 minutes except to hang on.
With all the retro builds going around and people doing their own version of the Cobra, why doesn't someone provide a kit for this. Build off-licence Toys. There must be a way to build more of these mean machines.
Lol! That spin it did at the junction on the Targa just about summed up how badly developed it was. Way too much power for a car that size and length with a mid-engine. There was a chap here in the UK called Andy Burton who in the late 80's rallied an Alfa-Ferrari built from a Sprint bodyshell but with a transverse Ferrari 308 engine (iirc) and box fitted to a spaceframe rear end done in a very similar fashion to the 037 Lancia. It did compete very successfully at national and club level for a while. th-cam.com/video/0OK0BUg4hR4/w-d-xo.html
One of the best things. I hate red ! Imagine this car in blue or green or any other than red ! What a fucken beast ! British Racing Green, or deep Blue or deep purple or... .😅 Cheers from New Zealand 🇳🇿
Kilowatts? Wtf? I thought it was gigawatts and that was only when referring to the DeLoren. I gotta google HP to Kilowatts now? Good lord. Cool car tho, I think. Idk wth is going on here.
Yeah sorry. We went metric here sometime after somebody lost their 13/64" spanner and had to make do with a 7/32". I often show both kW and hp (or ps). Will try to do both for the sake of UK and US people. Actually the US went metric too, in 1974, but everybody said screw that. No way is my 400 horsepower Camaro going down to 300 kilowatts.
I'm guessing one of the reasons Alfa Romeo didn't like this was that they themselves did the same thing back in 1983 and didn't get it done right. Sore losers...
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The Bullet roadsters are another home grown beast. Quad cam Toyo V8 stuffed in to an MX5, stretched 10 inches, all fun.
R.I.P. the Judge. The motor was in a Holden Ute for a while (?), then the owner went all out by using the Giocattolo body. Twin turbo, 750hp from a Holden V8 was impressive in 2001.
Never understood how reverse direction was EVER allowed, whatever happens be it mechanical or driver problem there's just nowhere to go, a funnel basically. His last moments must have been so horrific.
Correct it was in a ute first I have a magazine feature of it somewhere
Dumbest event ever RIP
I thought it was closer to 1000hp..
@@fatasdat I couldn't remember, but there's a video. At Summernats it made 856hp, but they had to wind the boost back to qualify for the competition. 747hp on 14.5 lb of boost.
Great tribute to this Aussie creation!Love the bundy flask too. I remember "The Judge" drag racing, it was such a weapon. But a tragedy to the driver and his family/friends.
I'm one of those whose age lets me remember when these were first announced. I got advice on how to pronounce the name correctly from my Italian neighbor. I've had to wait until now to see one in anything but a picture. Worth the wait. Thanks very much.
I love discovering cars I have never heard of, and this was one of those.
Thank you for the video, very interesting, and what a beautiful looking thing.
Its amazing seeing neat vintage cars for the 1st time that never came to the US. Australia has awesome and unique car culture. Keep upnthe good work- this video is great!
THANK YOU You tube algorithm.! I remember a picture of this in the dim and distant past in 'Motorsport' magazine it was a small picture and it was about the Tasmania rally'. Maybe even this on the video!Kept that mag for ages. Fantastic car.!!! Once more thank you from the UK!
4:12 “Oh f&@k off!” 😂😂😂
Nice. You have used a photo of my actual 85 sprint QV taken back at Wesley College at the 2016 Alfa Romeo Club Vic spettacolo in 2016.
A very tidy looking example!
Caloundra QLD could have been 1986, I was part of a workshop tour and remember there was a small bottle of Bundy Rum in the display tool box. The impression I got overall was "These guys could do anything they set their mind to". Thanks for the memories.
Right up there with the Lancia Stratos on my list.
Absolutely Gorgeous! Thanks for the upload. 👍🏻
Entering 2nd loop..
" oh f*#k off " 😆😅😂🤣
I remember seeing these from time to time, they were manufactured in Caloundra on the Sunshine Coast - quite amazing really
I´m starting to believe Mad Max movies were documentaries about Australian car culture xD
Crazy! I´d love to have a Group B inspired special model
Paul had the original Toy Shop in North Sydney and a workshop up in Artarmon. I was with BMW and had access to lots of Getrag special tools and used to pop up and build a few ‘Special’ boxes for him on the side. These cars were marketed by Alan Jones among others.
I was in high school back in the mid-eighties and every month the school would receive a new edition of Wheels and Modern Motor magazines and when I saw this car in the pages (I'm pretty sure both magazines ran an article) it totally blew my mind, it seemed absurd to me to put a 5.0L V8 in a small car, but it looked jaw droppingly gorgeous.
Because of the unusual name I'd sort of forgotten about the car for about 30+ years so when this video came up on my feed, the name just triggered something in my mind.
gorgeous,
Thanks for the video, and thanks for bringing back an old school time memory, it's nice to know I can remember that far back. 😀
Todd Wilkes had a bad ass twin turbo Giocattolo.
Yes, I've heard of the car, the Australian TV program " Beyond 2000 " did a piece on it. ( I'm from the USA )
Back in the early 90's my old boss had one. He use to do targa tas in it. He also won a prize at the summer nats.
Got to go for a ride in it one day, sounded amazing and it sure did turn heads
Me being American I do appreciate that car. Imagine if Alfa had helped him it could have been a great success story. Selling in other countries as well. In America that car in 1986 would have had too much horsepower to be legal. A Ferrari at the time only had about 200 ponies. Very interesting I like to discover cars I've never heard of.
I thought I knew all about cars. I'd never heard of this version of the Alfa Sprint. It's friggin' awesome!
Thanks for the video!
Yes yes yes and yes! I've always loved Alfasud Sprints and the 6C. Beautiful cars please test drive one!
Great review and vid. I always wondered what happened to these cars and have kept a look out to see if they ever come up for sale. Still fantastic to this day! How short sighted, but entirely predictable by Alfa! Would love to see a roadie of the car.
Defo road test one. I'm still awaiting, eagerly, tests of some Aussie cars. How about it lads?
I remember the jaw dropping moment I had when I read a magazine article about this car, full credit to its creator for his effort to bring it to reality, only problem is, there aren’t enough of them out there, thanks for the video
That V8 sounds fabulous. I have never heard about this bad ass car
Very , very cool !
What the hell is a Giocattolo? It is awesome!! Would love to see a test.
Low volume production sports car.
The lost car mentioned was running sprints around Sydney Motorsport Park, where WTAC is held (in the past it was home to the Australian Motorcycle Race Grand Prix as well.)
The sprints were, for some reason, run in reverse to the normal anti-clockwise direction of the circuit and the bloke ran out of track at the of the straight...
Would certainly be an interesting road test. Maybe not the best choice to tarmac rally due to the rarity, it would be almost impossible to replace and a fortune to clone
Absolutely. And very easy to bend especially in the wet. Adam is a brave lad.
I think "fortune" is a bit much... but most definitely goddamn expensive! I mean, the guy was pulling parts off of cars that they had no idea would go on to be rare, classic, automotive royalty! Who can afford that engine, and where would you even get the tranny from, lol!
I remember seeing one of them in Caloundra as a kid. We knew they were built there but had no idea of how many.
Yes! Test it please.
I remember these. I used to cycle past the factory most days.
"Pimp'd up Racer" is gonna be my new band name 😂
very nice proportions. looks like a tun'o'fun
What a cool souding little car, Aussie know how at its best, by all means test one
Of course you should road test one, assuming there’s a trusting owner out there. PS: the short format video worked well.
What a tuff car that looks like a hand full to drive wowwww
A dream car from all the early magazines. I remember Tony Ricciardello somewhat building his own GTV based version and seeing that at Sandown dominate the field was impressive. That shape and chassis was a great platform. A factory built car is always just a touch more exciting though.
He's back racing it again
Correct pronunciation
GI-CAT-OLLO, I used to work at Mercury Mufflers, we made the exhausts for them...I also have an original factory brochure for them also if someone wants to buy it...
Bel giocattolone!
Non ne ero a conoscenza
Grazie per il video
I remember this car because my dad was a mechanic at the time. I also remember a young guy who was racing his yellow one of these at a race track in Australia many many years ago if I remember correctly and had a very high speed crash coming down the straight right into the wall killing him instantly. I remember seeing the video footage probably close to 30 years ago.
Wow!!! Thank you youtube for putting this on my feed!!! What an excelent car and that V8 sound!!!!❤
Pretty awesome!
That car is super cool
Alfa Sprint was such a great design, too bad Alfa never turned to be economically healthy to continue something like this. But this V8 sounds magnificent.
giocattolo is pronounced joe-kaht-toe-low for anyone who is curious
I remember the racing version. It was mean.
“Jyo-cA-to-lo. It means toy; with the tonic accent on the A
i obviously know what it means and your spelling is no more instructive or correct than mine and as a native english speaker i obviously would argue my spelling is the easiest way to help others approach the correct pronunciation, your comment wasnt needed and added nothing @@augustinf
@@AlbertManiscalco i would disagree; not everybody knows what it means on one hand; and your transcription is complete shit and so approximative that you didn’t add anything to the video’s pronounciation. You gave an even shittier version. You’re probably the type of guy who wouldn’t mind being called “Daniel Ree-tchar-do” and getting your name butchered.
I remember some nob jockey drag racing at eastern creek, after he made a pass, the dipshit decided to do a 180 and nail it, towards a concrete effin wall. Needless to say, he's 6 foot under.
I love these old italians used to have a GTv 2.5
CORRECTION: @ 00:28 the narrator says "it was a genuine production car," NO, no it was not. To be classified as a "production" usually 50, but in some cases a bare minimum of 15 road legal, available to the public, examples must be built. ONLY 12 were ever built for public sale, the other 3 were prototypes, and were never offered to the public. MEANING THIS IS NOT A PRODUCTION CAR. The Giacoletto falls under the category of a "BOUTIQUE CAR." Also, for a car to have raced in Group B racing that car must be homologated. In Group B to be homogalated no less than 200, road legal, available to the public examples needed to be built. Having only ever built 15, and only 12 certified road legal, the Giacoletto was never certified for Group B racing. The Giacoletto is a super cool piece of automotive history, but ultimately it is an example of a mans failed dream, and can not be considered "a genuine production car."
Fair enough
@@inCARnationAustralia GREAT car though, I love it 👍😊, she's gorgeous. Always had a soft spot for hatchbacks. Ever heard of the Ford SHOgun? Very similar story to this one (except Ford approved, where Alfa did not) with a very similar car to this one (well, more like a Lancia Delta Integrale). The story's even the same. A dealer saw a hot hatch, wanted to take a bigger engine from the front of a bigger car by the same manufacturer, and put it in the rear mid chassis area. Difference is 1) Designers never intended it for racing, it was always just supposed to be a special order sports car (wait, maybe that's even the same too?!?) and 2) Ford approved and gave them both the go ahead and resources to make it happen.
Anyways, I bring it up because it's a mostly unheard of car, again like the Giacoletto, and is very, very similar in both story and design, so I though you might like it 😊 Jay Leno did a good piece on it, lemme find you the link, one sec...
th-cam.com/video/3XR9SoQU16c/w-d-xo.htmlsi=EFNLKTLFwbjsg0wW
Great piece on the Giacoletto boss 👍 enjoy the Jay Leno piece, and have an excellent day man! 😎
Alfa should have adopted this and called it the Beast, instead of the crazy ugly? Zagato SZ
Double wow and neat!
Kaplan car is the best. Sequential and probably by the sounds of it the 18 degree supercar motor out of his Walkinshaw. Makes all the original ones look tame.
Back in '91 there was one mint, low kms (6,000kms) for sale in the local classifieds..bloke was asking $59,950 and it sat unsold for about a year. Found out some years later he accepted an offer of $45k.
I had a cobalt blue one when todd willks was alive and just by chance we would somehow always seem to bump into each other in Brisbane city and end up doing laps of the city mine was a little louder than his so I always went a bit slower cause any cars parked on the roads would have their alarms set off as I drove by. I remember the day seeing on the news where Todd had his accident and I parked my car in the shed and just forgot about it for about a month and a half. I ended up selling it and didn't drive for about a year.
Bellissima macchina!😘👌🏻
Great cars. I’d love one, but would also love a Pantera. ;)
Such a shame with the timing of their launch. $90k in 1987 was a hell of a lot. The average salary was around $25k.
A house in Melbourne was around $120k.
Good point Mark. That really puts the mega price into perspective.
In 86 we paid $45,000 for our house in Seddon,(West Footscray). 4 br, 2 bathroom, huge sunroom, lounge and kitchen. Office. Brick garage and enough room for my 2 cars, 2 bikes and my 2 courier vans. That house is now worth over $1,000,000. I remember houses in Prahran going that cheap at the time it was laughable, given the proximity to the Melbourne CBD, not to mention the South Yarra/Chapel Street shopping strip.
I'm an Aussie and never seen one of them. What a beautiful car tho.
1:46 A wee bit more impressive than the English 'Plastic Pig' commonly known as a Reliant Robin.
Why would Paul Haulstead throw away the body panels and engine of a brand new Alfa Sprint? He could have recouped some costs by selling the parts
But please yes if you can do a video review would love that!
I have a memory of Sydney Motor Sport Park.. before the drag strip.. they just had runs down hill on the straight..
This rocket went past my sons and I… faster than anything else we had seen.. then a tragedy accident at the end.. just ran out of brakes.. at that point I had to usher my boys home with stories of..
They build these cars strong, he’ll be ok.. don’t worry..😢
Yes very sad and sobering. And a lengthy inquest and legal stoush. In retrospect it seems farcically ill-conceived. If they ran up the hill, heaps of bumpy runoff.
Great video!
Australia is an awesome country with odd wonders as the kangaroo and the Giocatollo. Enthusiasts thank you for bringing this super interesting and unknown information about the history of automobiles.
Greetings from Brazil.
If I remember correctly, Halstead used to race a Lamborghini Countach before he made these.
Great car!
Nice!
It would be nice to see a road test.
Looks like the last version of the rally cars before the ban.
They were pricey but if memory serves, they had a kevlar body.
Btw they're running around $100,000 usd, as of 2024, well just a little under.
Did Ferrari try to sue over the rea quarter panel fins? Like they did to Koenig?
My dream car
Only 200kw but 6 million ft/lb torque.
Didn't Brocky get involved with a white one?
Paul Halstead creation.
The Chook Lotto!
As much as this car may look cute, it has one huge flaw to my eyes: FWD.
PS FYI correct pronunciation in Italian, quite surprisingly, is "giocàttolo", not "giocattòlo".
Paul Halstead thought the same as you. That's why he made them mid-engined and RWD
Oups... didn't get that... my bad!!!!@@inCARnationAustralia
You beat it by six seconds, because the Giocattolo doesn't steer or stop well. Smaller and tighter the course gets, the further ahead everything else is.
It's probably worth commenting that Andrew drove like a demon that day in a twenty year old RWD Mazda. On that stage we were 16th outright in a field of 150 cars, beat every Porsche in the field, including the GT3s except for the GT2RS. The stage is not too slow - mainly right angle corners but a few 300 and 400m straights, so it suits powerful cars too. The Giocattolo's time was very good too. I had very little to do as navigator for 3 minutes except to hang on.
With all the retro builds going around and people doing their own version of the Cobra, why doesn't someone provide a kit for this. Build off-licence Toys. There must be a way to build more of these mean machines.
always thought the Alfa Sprint was a beautiful car and deserved a RWD Alfa engine.
Wow! 😈
JAR CAR TOLL OH..... that's how it sounds
Most Alfisti around the world know the Giacattolo. Great idea, and what an idiots at AR in Italy being such a$$#oles to try and stop the project.
giocàttolo not giòcattolo. saw this on an italian car journal back in the 90's
Aren’t you based in Australia? I think most car enthusiast in the states are familiar with them.
Yes, indeed. Only 15 cars ever made and I believe all stayed in Australia so if the US are familiar with them, that would be a feather in our cap.
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Lol! That spin it did at the junction on the Targa just about summed up how badly developed it was. Way too much power for a car that size and length with a mid-engine. There was a chap here in the UK called Andy Burton who in the late 80's rallied an Alfa-Ferrari built from a Sprint bodyshell but with a transverse Ferrari 308 engine (iirc) and box fitted to a spaceframe rear end done in a very similar fashion to the 037 Lancia. It did compete very successfully at national and club level for a while. th-cam.com/video/0OK0BUg4hR4/w-d-xo.html
a lovely car, BIG thumbs up for Aussie engineering and balls to tell Alpha to screw you!
That car would have sold well in the US had it been better times
Jee-ya-co-toll-lo
Todd Wilkes
In your rice burner
One of the best things. I hate red ! Imagine this car in blue or green or any other than red ! What a fucken beast ! British Racing Green, or deep Blue or deep purple or... .😅 Cheers from New Zealand 🇳🇿
Kilowatts? Wtf? I thought it was gigawatts and that was only when referring to the DeLoren. I gotta google HP to Kilowatts now? Good lord. Cool car tho, I think. Idk wth is going on here.
Yeah sorry. We went metric here sometime after somebody lost their 13/64" spanner and had to make do with a 7/32". I often show both kW and hp (or ps). Will try to do both for the sake of UK and US people. Actually the US went metric too, in 1974, but everybody said screw that. No way is my 400 horsepower Camaro going down to 300 kilowatts.
Thay mazda to day is worth nothing but that V8 alfa will stand the test of time....
giocattolo
literally "toy" in italian ^^
It's an Italian beauty with a hideous Australian motor and styling
I knew we would get polarised responses. Fair enough. Clearly not to everyone's taste.
@@inCARnationAustralia hat off to you and your dignified response. Wa a bit OTT from me .apologies
@@inCARnationAustralia Styled bit like LAMBO and FERRARI of the time...
Holden V8 one of the best sounding engines.
@@gerardcrabb4556more like a Sbaro or a Koenig.
It's pronounced joe-catolo.
I'm guessing one of the reasons Alfa Romeo didn't like this was that they themselves did the same thing back in 1983 and didn't get it done right. Sore losers...
These things were death machines, a real pos
Only 1 is not still running is what I just listened to. So how did all these people die and the cars survive. 😂
I'm an Aussie & these cars were garbage, born out by the fact nobody wanted them. You want an Alfa, you buy an Alfa & not some "toy".
What a little monster !!! WOW !!!