Re: [alfa] GTV V8

[Gene Brown <alfagene@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 From the Montreal Home Page at http://www.alfamontreal.info/


In 1975 Carlo Chiti's team at Autodelta fitted a 3-litre 340 bhp version 
of the Montreal engine <http://www.alfamontreal.info/Montreal/V8GTV.jpg> 
to two special light-alloy Alfetta GTV shells 
<http://www.alfamontreal.info/Montreal/GTV8shell.jpg>. Described at the 
time as an Alfetta GT3000, this hybrid car 
<http://www.alfamontreal.info/Montreal/GTV8factory.jpg> has been 
referred to as a GTV8 after the appearance of the GTV6. One of these 
cars was entered in the rally of Elecar, Piacenza, Italy, in December 
1975 but failed to finish due to failure of the gearbox (in spite of its 
having been strengthened). After further improvements were made for the 
1976 session, the car had a few racing successes before the project was 
abandoned to save costs and the two drivers Jean Claude Andruet and 
Ballestrieri left the team.

One of these cars was located near Milan and fully restored by Bob van 
der Sluis in Holland 
<http://www.alfamontreal.info/Montreal/GTV8Holland.jpg>. It has been 
described by Jos Hugense <http://leden.tref.nl/hubro/> in the Dutch Alfa 
Romeo Club publication "Het Klaverblaadje", No. 73, 1996. Ed McDonough's 
impressions on driving the car at the 1997 SCARB meeting at the Assen 
circuit are recorded in "Assen Alfas", Auto Italia, No. 19, March 1998. 
It is believed that the second car was sold to Japan in 1990.

In 1977, at the request of Alfa Romeo's German distributor in Aachen, 
about 20 GTVs were equipped by Autodelta with the Montreal's normal 200 
bhp engine. These GTV shells were the regular steel ones and only the 
bulge on the bonnet betrayed that they were fitted with the V8 engine. 
This powerful coupi was marketed in Germany as the Alfetta GTV 2.6i V8 
<http://www.alfamontreal.info/Montreal/V8alfetta2.jpg> for DEM 50,000. 
0-100 km/h acceleration for the hybrid vehicle remained as for the 
Montreal, but the maximum speed was claimed to exceed 230 km/h.



>Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 17:31:55 +0100
>From: Darryl Davis <D.N.Davis@domain.elided>
>Subject: [alfa] GTV V8
>
>The web pages for the new AR 8cC also point to
> Alfetta GTV V8
> http://www.carfolio.com/specifications/models/car/?car=110880
> Is this GTV6 with variation of Montreal engine?
> Did it make production?
> 
>- -- dd
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