Broken Dreams: Alfa Romeo Scarabeo. Jealousy

In the mid-60s, the use of rear engines in racing cars was becoming ubiquitous. Alfa Romeo’s technical team had studied the Tipo 33 with this very solution, a car that was successfully developed by Autodelta, the company’s sports division. Alfa Romeo subsequently felt the need to offer its racing driver customers a Berlinetta with this same configuration, and the engineer Giuseppe Busso and his team set to work, starting from the successful four-cylinder GTA, on a model with a transverse rear engine. The name chosen for the car was Scarabeo.