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1968 Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone)
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968 - Photography by René Staud
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968 - Photo: Rainer Schlegelmilch
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968 - Photo: Rainer Schlegelmilch
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968 - Photo: Rainer Schlegelmilch
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968 - Photo: Rainer Schlegelmilch
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968 - Photo: Rainer Schlegelmilch
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968 - Photo: Rainer Schlegelmilch
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968 - Photo: Rainer Schlegelmilch
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968 - Photo: Rainer Schlegelmilch
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968 - Photo: Rainer Schlegelmilch
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968 - Photo: Rainer Schlegelmilch
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968 - Photo: Benedict Redgrove
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968 - Photo: Benedict Redgrove
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968 - Photo: Benedict Redgrove
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968 - Photo: Chris Jones
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968 - Photo: Chris Jones
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968 - Engine
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968 - Headlamp
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968 - Interior
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968 - Interior
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone) - Auto Expo 69
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968 - Scale Model
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968 - Scale Model - Nuccio Bertone
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968 - Design Sketches
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968 - Technical Drawing
Alfa Romeo Carabo (Bertone), 1968 - Design Process
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#69 - The 100 most beautiful cars (The Daily Telegraph)
Alfa Romeo P33 Carabo 1968 - Автомобиль разработан Carrozzeria Bertone s.p.a.
The Alfa Romeo Carabo was a milestone in Supercar design. Originally penned by Marcello Gandini, from Bertone, the car was called "Carabo," meaning beetle. The concept car was shown in October 1968, at Porte de Versailles in Paris, to a stunned crowd. It was built on the Chassis of the mid-engined V8 Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 and was an experimental design. The Lamborghini Miura, also previously designed by Gandini, had suffered from front-end lift at high speeds, so the Carabo was an exercise in focusing on an aerodynamic solution. The car also featured upward hinging doors, which later inspired the Lamborghini Countach.
Lotusespritturbo.com
At the November 1968 Turin Salon, a 33 Stradale concept by Bertone signalled a genuinely new direction for supercar design. With its daring wedge shape featuring a frameless windscreen, scissor doors and slatted rear bodywork, the Carabo was named after the bright green beetle that inspired Bertone’s choice of colour. Reflective VHR-Glaverbel safety glass was chosen on account of its strength and lightness. This was one of the great concept cars, a bold but functionally valid vision of the future.
www.qv500.com
Bertone’s concept car never saw production, but its radical wedge shape and dramatic scissor doors were a major influence on supercars to come, most obviously the ’74 Countach and the big Lamborghinis that have succeeded it – right up to today’s Murcielago.
The forgotten supercars (Ben Oliver) - www.carmagazine.co.uk
The 1968 Alfa Romeo Carabo concept car was based on the race-derived mechanicals of the exclusive 33 Stradale from the previous year, but that wasn’t its only claim to fame: it also inspired two of last century’s most iconic cars.
The Carabo project was a collaborative effort between the Italian manufacturer and the Bertone styling house: a partnership which had previously borne fruits that included the 2000 Sportiva and BAT concept cars of the mid-1950s. The basis of the Carabo was a chassis numbered 75033.109 which was, more specifically, that of a 33 Stradale road car. Despite sharing mechanicals with the Tipo 33 race car and since being recognised as one of the most beautiful cars in history, Alfa had trouble finding owners for the Stradale due to its steep asking price of around $17,000. As a result, five of the Stradale chassis were passed to Italian carrozzerie: two to Pininfarina (used for the 33.2 and Cuneo concepts), one to Italdesign (which became the Iguana concept), and two to Bertone – the other being used as a basis for the 1976 Navajo concept.
The H-shaped tubular chassis supported an all-aluminium 1995cc engine which was designed by Carlo Chiti and, incidentally, was the first Alfa Romeo V8. The fuel-injected, longitudinally mounted motor used chain-driven camshafts and red-lined at 10,000rpm, despite being detuned to 230bhp from the Tipo race car’s 250-270bhp. This granted the Carabo a top speed of 160mph and the ability to dispatch the 0-62mph sprint in 5.5 seconds, with the power being sent to the rear wheels through a six-speed, syncromeshed, transaxle gearbox designed by Valerio Colotti.
Because of its underpinnings, designer Marcelo Gandini had the opportunity to create a car that would revolutionise the automotive industry for many years afterwards. The engine being mounted amidships allowed for a pointed front end, while the ground-hugging poise inherited from the Tipo race car meant the car was under a metre tall at its highest point. Combined with the squared-off rear end, these characteristics inspired countless wedge-shaped designs of the 70s and 80s, and also gave the car its name and colour: Carabo is derived from ‘Carabidae’, a family of ground-beetles with a distinctive green and gold colour.
The principle of the wedge-shaped profile was used to eliminate the high-speed aerodynamic lift troubles of the Lamborghini Miura, which Gandini had penned two years earlier. However, his innovative cerebration didn’t stop there: as well as having headlights hidden beneath active flaps, the Carabo was the first concept car with front-hinged wing doors, later used by Gandini when designing the Lamborghini Countach and since assuming the ‘Lamborghini doors’ meme. As well as inspiring the revolutionary raging bull, the Carabo clearly also lent styling cues to the Lancia Stratos Zero concept car, which in turn inspired the iconic Stratos HF.
Unsurprisingly, the Carabo remained a one-off, but its revolutionary styling dramatically steered the automotive design industry onto a radically different path – one which produced some of the landmark cars of the 20th Century. Even those who can’t look favourably on its apparent aversion to curved surfaces should take a second to appreciate its legacy; after all, would an Aventador have quite the same drama without its ‘Carabo doors’?
Joe Breeze - www.classicdriver.com
Пороговый 1968 год создал своего Жука — уже не фольксвагеновский Beetle, а Carabo («жужелицу») от Гандини. Сплошные плоские грани и острые углы. Посадка — полулежачая, двери — «гильотины», фары — спрятаны, приборы — по углам салона. Carabo на шасси Alfa Romeo 33 Нуччо Бертоне считал одним из лучших автомобилей, рожденных в его ателье.
«Выставка мечты» (Сергей ЗНАЕМСКИЙ) - Газета АВТОРЕВЮ, 2009 год / №1 (418)
Alfa Romeo Carabo. С нее, собственно говоря, все и началось. Мир, в особенности автомобильный, сошелся клином. Клиновидные носы оставались хитом многих сезонов подряд. И даже сейчас автомобили Гандини выглядят свежо.
Автомобиль, название которого переводится с итальянского как «жужелица», был экспериментом в аэродинамике. Причиной тому стал неудачный опыт Гандини с Lamborghini Miura – у той на большой скорости были серьезные проблемы с подъемной силой, разгружавшей переднюю ось.
Кроме того, именно на Carabo впервые появились вертикальные – «ламбо» – двери, которые стали визитной карточкой Гандини и разработанных им в дальнейшем машин Lamborghini Countach и Diablo.
Концепт был создан всего за два с половиной месяца: в отличие от большинства коллег, Гандини рисовал автомобили сразу в натуральную величину.
www.lastochka.by; Влад Клепач - motor.ru
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