Alfa 1900 Super Sprint ssc

The Alfa Romeo 1900 is a sports sedan designed by Orazio Satta for the Alfa Romeo company in 1950. It was the first car of Alfa Romeo built entirely on a production line . It was also the first production car of Alfa without separate chassis and first Alfa offered with left-hand . The car was introduced for the first time in 1950 at the Paris Salon .

Berlina / Sprint

The 1900 was offered in the models of four-door two-door or, with a new 1884 cc (bore 82.55 mm (3.3"), stroke 88 mm (3.5 inches)), 90 HP (67 kW), 4-cylinder twin cam engine . It was broad and simple, but fast and sporty. The slogan used in the sale of Alfa was "The family car that wins races", not-so-subtle allusion to the success of the car in the Targa Florio , Stella Alpina, and other competitions. In 1951, he introduced the 1900C short distance between shafts (c corto (Italian for short)) version. It had a wheelbase of 2500 mm (98,4 inch). In the same year was introduced the 1900TI with a more powerful engine of 100 HP (75 kW) engine, it had larger valves, a higher compression ratio and was equipped with a double carburetor. Two years later, the 1900 and 1900 super Super YOU (also 1900 Super Sprint) with 1.975 cc were introduced (diameter 84.5 mm increased (by 3.3 inches), stroke unchanged). The TI Super had two double carburetors and 115 BHP (86 kW). Transmission was a 4-speed manual on basic versions and 5-speed manual in the version of Super Sprint, the brakes are drum brakes. The 1900 had a front axle with independent suspension ( double wishbones , coil springs and telescopic hydraulic shock absorbers ) and live axle rear .

The production in the plant of Milan, by the company continued until 1959: a total of 21.304 were built, including 17.390 of the classrooms.

The chassis has been specifically designed to allow bodybuilders to REBODY it, the most notable of which was the Zagato designed, 1900 Super Sprint Coupe, with an improved engine and design of the custom body. The Alfa Romeo 1900M AR51 (or "Matta") is a four-wheel-drive vehicle off the road on the basis of the 1900-series.

Versions nasturtium: Sprints, spiders, coupés and convertibles

Iginio Alessio , then general manager of Alfa Romeo, was concerned for the viability of the independence Italian Coachwork industry avant's design of the chassis unibody threatened to put the carrazzeri out of business. Alessio was also a personal friend of Gaetano Ponzoni co-owner of Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera, so, 1951-1958 Alfa Romeo built five different variations of chassis unibody 1900 specifically for coachbiulders independent.

Alfa Romeo gave formal contracts to Touring to build the sports coupe 1900 Sprint and to Pinin Farina to build an elegant four-seater convertible and coupe. The availability of a chassis suitable led many other coachbiulders to build versions of the 1900.

Carrozzeria Zagato built a small series of coupes with the designation is not official, 1900 SSZ, designed to compete with with a lightweight aluminum body and aerodynamic brand roof of double bubble Zagato.

Unique and special, where numerous from the famous Bertone BAT series of aerodynamic studies, a science-fiction infamous as spider Astral designed by Carrozzeria Boneschi for Rafael Trujillo the dictator of the Dominican Republic. There was a Barchetta, or "boat car "made by Ghia-Aigle in Lugano Switzerland designed by Giovanni Michelotti at the request of a rich Italian who had two passions:. boats Riva ', and a woman, her lover, the car has no doors or windscreen wipers

Bellow is a ordered list Alfa Romeo 1900.

1954 Alfa Romeo 1900 Sport Spider

In 1954 Alfa Romeo made two spiders and two coupes using similar chassis to that of the C52 Disco Volante . In Bertone, Franco Scaglione wrote two bodies of aluminum unique, a coupe and a spider. The coupe was known as the 2000 Sportiva . Its weight is 2,000 pounds (910 kg) and has 138 horsepower (103 kW). The acceleration is on par with most of the exotic species of contemporary style and the top speed is about 137 mph (220 km / h).

Engines

IKA Bergantin

Industrias Kaiser Argentina produced between 1960 and 1962 a car named IKA Bergantin in Argentina, the body and suspension was from 1900 Berlina and engines were from the Willys line, the 4-L 151 cubic inch (2.5 L) and the 6-L 226 cu in (3.7 L).