Developed for the FIA European Touring Car Challenge in 1963, the Giulia TI Super Berlina is considered by many to be Alfa Romeo’s first homologation special. Based on the Tipo 105 Series Giulia TI, the Super was built for just two model years. Improvements over the standard model included select aluminum panels, cast-magnesium wheels, Zagato-style front bucket seats and a higher-compression, twin-cam, 1,570-cc inline 4-cylinder engine equipped with Weber 45 DCOE 14 carburetors, capable of producing 112 horsepower.
This TI Super was built on June 3, 1964, and sold new to Albergo Michele in Bari, Italy. The Alfa Romeo was first registered on plates BA143298 on June 8, according to copies of ACI records on file, and remained in Bari until 1982. In 2014, the Alfa was acquired by Autoclassiche S.r.l. of Rome, which quickly sold it to Paul Schouwenburg of Haarlem, Netherlands. A well-known specialist in the restoration of Italian automobiles, Schouwenburg restored the car through his firm, Strada e Corsa, which included the installation of many Alfaholics internal engine components, as documented in a restoration summary on file.
Curtis Leaverton purchased this TI Super in 2018. With just 501 examples built and many seeing immediate use in competition, the chance to acquire a well-documented, largely stock and thoroughly restored example such as this should not be missed.
(Introductory description courtesy of Gooding Christie’s.)
