Re: Alfa Canguro

["Thomas Moll" <moltek@domain.elided>]

Some pictures and supporting information that I found interesting. Great
looking car!

http://home.golden.net/~cwallace/alfa/canguro/


Thomas Moll
Seattle

----- Original Message -----
From: "koobs de hartog" <koobsdehartog@domain.elided>
To: <C2slayman@domain.elided>; <alfa-digest@domain.elided>
Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 1:22 PM
Subject: Alfa Canguro


> Hi Charlie and fellow Alfisti,
>
> Interesting for me was the question about the Canguro.
> As a matter of fact this was one of the very first cars I drove myself, I
> hadn't a drivers licence yet, in 1965 or 1966.
> This was at the Bertone factory that I visited during the holydays.
> You will understand that this was, at that time -aged 16-17-, the story of
my
> life.
> Ever since the car had my interest and at the end of the sixties an
American
> living in Bitburg Germany, Gary Schmidt, bought the remains of the crashed
car
> from Bertone for, when I remember well, something like $50,--
> There are two stories: Marcello Minerbi writes that the car was crashed by
an
> Italian car-journalist during a test at Monza when it hit the other
Bertone
> Prototype, the 'Testudo'. The Testudo was restored, the Canguro not.
> The other story goes, that the car was loaned to a film crew and that
Bertone
> never got the car back. When they went to look for the car they found the
> remains of the car in the Studio's.
> Gary Schmidt restored the car as far as possible but had to sell it some
years
> ago to Japan.
>
> Any way, a great car.
>
> Hope to hear from it more.
>
> Bye,
>
> Jack Koobs de Hartog
> (author Bizzarrini book)
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