Blame it on age, blame it on a chronically creative memory, but about
half what I said about that earlier Alfa in the February '61 Sports Car
Graphic was incorrect. The article was written by Karl Ludvigsen (as
about half the magazine was!), not Griff Borgeson, and the car was one
of several prototype bodies Pininfarina built on a so-called "Disco
Volante" 3.5 liter chassis. That did have the DeDion setup that Ricart
introduced into the Alfa canon, but the frame was a massive tubular
structure much more like a '60s TVR than the Lotus Elan. I have
re-scanned the entire article and made a relatively low-res PDF of only
about 4.5 Mb, so anyone who wants to see that is welcome to it.
Joe's suggestion of using the Alfa Sei assembly, as I have told him, is
one that John Hertzman and I were bandying back and forth about ten
years ago, a fact which I had forgotten. As all those emails were three
or four Mac OS versions and two computers ago for me, none have survived
of course, but it seems to me that John knew or knew of someone who had
a Sei. Or maybe just was thinking about it, hard to tell. Fred, would be
my guess... what a drag it is getting old...!
Will Owen
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