This journey starts in the intense investigation that preceded all the work that was carried out. The first move was asking the official Alfa Romeo archive for the correct exterior colour and original place of delivery. It turns out that this car had been in its origin as Bianco Gardenia. It also turns out that this particular car, even though having left the factory in 1961, is in fact a 1960 car, that for some reason, that one can only speculate about, as well as with some other documented cars, started in 1960 and the production jumps numbers, being this example finished only in 1961 (as per Fusi’s book).
This explains why this car has some details that can only be found on the pre-1961 cars.
Afterwords we turned to the Portuguese official registration bureau to trace the ownership history. At this point the first owner was identified, as well as the second and the third, the later keeping the car from 1968 until 2012. By the oficial documents attained since the car arrival in Portugal, and we could understand the colours changes trough out its life, as well as determine that it was still fitted with its original ultra rare engine number AR00120*00688. Those high output 100hp 1300cc engine type where fitted only to the Sprint Speciale and Sprint Zagato.
When most collectors with be happy at this point we haven't had enough yet. Soon we got information that the Archivio Bertone was going up for auction in Turin, that included the original Franco Scaglione’s designs and trim samples, we did not hesitate, plane tickets were booked and the mission of purchasing a piece of history was achieved. This gave us the tools to check exterior colour(with correct spec), fabrics, colour combinations (wheel colour, interior fabric, carpets, vinyl…) measures, and some interesting letters that were exchanged between Bertone and Alfa Romeo and back.
At this point we realized that this would for sure became one of the Alfa Romeo Giulietta SS’s with the most thorough investigation ever conducted.
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