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Sorry Mags I was a bit vague with my caption. That is an Alfa Romeo but the coachwork is by Zagato. In those days it was reasonably commonplace for up market cars to have their bodywork fitted by a specialist coachbuilder, it was partly a throwback to the pre monocoque days when cars had separate chassis. They often had to keep certain "signature" features of a manufacturer such as the front grill arrangement.

Many of the old styling houses are still going and you will see their names on the side of modern cars - Ford and Vignale for example but they no longer physically provide the body panels, that is all in-house now, they merely do all the design work.

My old Lancia also had aluminium coachwork by Zagato btw. If you look closely at the Alfa you can see it has the signature Zagato "double bubble" roof as mine had.

I'll stop rambling on now before I get carried away.