Alfa Romeo SZ 1992, Itália

 

Alfa Romeo SZ 1992, Itália
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When Alfa Romeo was acquired by then-rival marque Fiat in the 1980s, it knew the brand needed a model to capture the public’s imagination. The result was a car that shocked the world, and one that still divides opinion after more than 30 years: the Alfa Romeo SZ. A collaboration between Citroën SM stylist Robert Opron and Antonio Castellana at Centro Stile Fiat, the wild styling was put into production by Zagato using innovative design and construction methods.
This example, offered from single-family ownership since new, has been cherished by its long-term custodian. Supplied by the Alfa Romeo concessionnaire, Soprana Automotibles of Juillan, France, the car was ordered on 6 September 1989. Due to prolonged build times, the consignor had to wait two-and-a-half years until the Alfa Romeo was delivered on 7 March 1992. It remained a treasured part of his collection of Italian exotica until his passing in 2014, whereupon ownership of SZ was assumed by his children. Dutifully kept in a climate-controlled environment, the odometer reads only 7,723 kilometres at the time of cataloguing. The Alfa Romeo was fitted with a replacement distributor belt in 2021.
Given the SZ’s early appeal for speculators on the then-booming “special car” market, finding one-family-owned examples of Alfa Romeo’s icon of otherness is rare. For an SZ to be so cossetted, with mileage not yet into five-figures, makes this opportunity even more special.