Short of the Grid: A Rare Alfa Romeo Autodelta Giulietta Turbodelta

by Kris Clewell -

Alfa Romeo's Autodelta needed 500 road-legal Giulietta Turbodeltas to homologate the car for GT racing in the early '80s. They built 361 and pulled the plug. The Turbodelta never raced. Every car they made went home with a private owner, and Massimo spent years working the network to find his. It's number 117.

He had Alfa toys as a kid, in a country where police drove Alfas and the people they were chasing did too. He got older and ran into Autodelta, Alfa's racing skunkworks and the small-batch homologation shop responsible for most of the brand's weirdest road cars. The Turbodelta was one of the last ones.

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