The extraordinary Bertone Carabo.
Touring’s curvy Disco Volante or ‘Flying Saucer’.
most amazing of these is the oldest – Castagna’s Aerodinamica of 1913, built on a 40/60hp chassis. As the display’s description says, this bizarre creation looks like something from a Jules Verne novel and one wonders how this early ex-
periment in automotive aerodynamics would have fared in the favourable conditions of Brooklands. Was it the world’s first concept car and/or MPV? The point of these cars is of course to generate new ideas and fresh thinking. The thin green wedge that is Bertone’s Carabo of 1968 looks impossibly low (there is a picture of Nuccio Bertone crouched in front of the car demonstrat- ing the car’s height). But look again and one can see how this concept influenced subsequent Bertone designs such as the Lancia Stratos, Fiat X1/9, Maserati Khamsin and even Citroen BX of the 1980s. Not all the concepts are far away from production models and the 1965 Giulia Sprint Speciale by Giorgetto Giugiaro during his period at Bertone must represent one of the great ‘what ifs’ of Alfa history. Touring’s voluptuous C52 Disco Volante is another wonderful creation, pure automotive art. Completing this section are Castagna’s 2000 Sportiva from the 1950s, the 60s are represented by two mid-engined cars – Pininfarina’s 33/2 Speciale and Ital Design’s
Other prototypes behind the Disco Volante.
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