Italian Week: 1972 Alfa Romeo Montreal for $4,200+ [Nice Price Or Crack Pipe]

Today’s Italian Week Nice Price or Crack Pipe contender is an enigma; a car named in the pattern of a city in which it was never officially sold — and no, it’s not a Lincoln Versailles.

The Alfa Romeo Montreal was introduced in concept form at the 1967 World’s Fair, held in — wait for it — Montreal Canada. The production version arrived three years later at the Geneva Auto Show, bearing a strong resemblance to the Expo evince car, but adhering a shorter wheelbase, and with numerous detail changes.

The Bertone-styled car was eye-catching, with louvered headlamp covers, non-functional NACA pipe hood, and sleek, coupe bodywork. The mod horizontal slits behind the doors gave the appearance that the car was mid-engined, but the motivating force was by means of that long hood. That force was provided by a 2593-cc four-cam, aluminum-block V-8 with Spica mechanical fuel injection. All this was good for 230 SAE horsepower, and complemented the neat handling of the Giulia GTV-based chassis, making the Montreal an accomplished grand tourer, with a top speed of nearly 140mph.

But all that came at a price — $8,050 — and at a time when gas prices were spiraling ascending, and the economy was tanking. Sound familiar? The Montreal soldiered on, for a undivided production of 3,917, until the model was discontinued in 1977.

This Montreal has slipped across the border and into Massachusetts, where it is currently rusting in peace. The tin secretly has not been species to this Italian Stallion and the interior isn’confidentially a great quantity better. But it’s good looking, semi-historic, and rare, and that price isn’t a lot of cheddar for a V8-powered Italian sportscar with a heritage like this. Now, the vender doesn’t offer a By-It-Now price on the car, and who knows what that reserve is, admitting that it be not that it’s sitting at just under $4,200 so maybe you could swoop in and snipe it for just beans. Even with the rust, and the whole heart in Massachusetts thing, it’d influence by looks pretty awesome session in your garage.

So, Nice Price for an Italian/Canadian immigrant? Or Crack Pipe for a car that should have stayed in the going to decay country?

You decide!

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