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Car of the Day: April 3, 2015; Track Burners '64 Alfa Romeo Canguro Concept
Topic Started: Apr 3 2015, 12:26 AM (476 Views)
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Today's car of the day is Track Burners' 1964 Alfa Romeo Canguro Concept

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Although most TZ2s were bodied by Zagato in Milan, a pair of particularly interesting examples received coachwork by Bertone and Pininfarina. The first, Bertone's Canguro, was executed on behalf of Alfa Romeo who wanted to assess a road-going version's feasibility. Built around chassis 101 during the autumn of 1964, this prototype tubular steel spaceframe was mounted a drastic six inches lower than the original TZ. It wore unique Campagnolo thirteen inch forged magnesium wheels but whether or not the Canguro actually used what would have been an experimental TZ2 motor is currently unknown. Considering it was for all intents and purposes a road car, Alfa's 130bhp unit from the original TZ would probably have sufficed.

What is for certain though is that Bertone's Giorgetto Giugiaro produced one of the most extraordinarily curvaceous designs of the sixties for this car. Covered headlights, doors curving into the roofline and a wraparound rear windscreen were the most striking details - Bertone affording the Canguro little in the way of impact protection. The bodywork was fabricated entirely from aluminum although production versions would almost certainly have been manufactured with glassfibre shells, nice touches including the external fuel filler and Quadrifoglio-shaped cabin vents mounted either side of the roll hoop. Other details showed up later on the 1967 V8-engined Montreal, most obviously the prominent bank of horizontal engine cooling vents carved out from the front wings.


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For more information and pictures on the real car, please vist: Alfa Romeo Canguro

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What can I say, I love old Alfa's. Add to the fact that it's a concept by Bertone, and this car is even cooler to me. This Track Burners version is a rather crude plastic body copy of Penny's casting of the same car, but it's one I'm thrilled to own.

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Making its debut on Bertone's stand at the Paris Salon in October 1964, the Canguro caused massive interest before subsequently being handed over to the factory for evaluation that December. Alfa chose not to put the car into limited production though, probably because Autodelta (who would go on to build production TZ2's) were in no position to begin manufacture - only officially being established in December 1964. The Canguro was later damaged by a journalist, although nearly everything was saved.

After remaining in pieces for nearly 30 years, a Japanese collector finished a restoration which began in the early seventies. The Canguro made a triumphant return to show circuits at 2005 Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este.


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juantoo3
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What an interesting and cool car! Not a brand I've heard of before.
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craftymore
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Support your local demo derby.

I've been periodically searching for the '68 Lincoln Continental from Track Burners ever since I saw one in Dave/Kimmo's Encyclopedia. The models aren't the best but they do offer up plastic bodies and metal bases which at the time was not common.
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pjedsel
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:toy: I am familiar with the Track Burners brand but have never had any in my collection. They are a bit on that crude side but still a nice collectible in the overall world of diecast cars.
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Dean-o-mite
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Interesting, at the very least. I've never owned or held a Track Burners car, and my only knowledge of the brand is from the Diecast Encyclopedia (still such a great reference book!)
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New casting? Quick! Take it apart!
It is always nice to have at least one example of a diecast maker's ware, but I think sometimes it is a bit of a stretch to say they may be collectible. This appears to fall in the category of I'll look at it in someone else's collection and enjoy the novelty.
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Never heard before of that brand but for sure it's interesting :thumbup:
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