{"id":47976,"date":"2018-08-07T16:08:10","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T14:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.museonicolis.com\/en\/alfa-romeo-1300-spider-junior\/"},"modified":"2024-07-03T16:38:52","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T14:38:52","slug":"alfa-romeo-1300-spider-junior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.museonicolis.com\/en\/alfa-romeo-1300-spider-junior\/","title":{"rendered":"Alfa Romeo, 1972, 1300 Spider Junior"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alfa Romeo \u201c1300 Spider Junior\u201d, Pininfarina, 1972<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Alfa Romeo Spider, also known as \u201cDuetto\u201d,<\/strong> is probably one of the longest-running Alfa Romeo models. This new car was launched at the most important Motor Show in March 1966:<\/strong> the Geneva<\/strong> Motor Show. To give a new name to the spider, with its clean, sleek and original design Alfa Romeo launched a rather successful contest and the winner (Guidobaldo Trionfi from Brescia) decided to call it “<\/strong>Duetto”<\/strong>; a name that will be later cancelled by Alfa Romeo because of an homonomy with a snack of the time, but never forgotten by the Alfisti.
\n<\/em>The management of the company from Arese<\/strong> thought that a spider model was essential for a commercial placement in the US market, so in May 1966<\/strong> together with the international exhibition of italian products in New York promoted by Finmeccanica to which Alfa Romeo belonged, Camillo Marchetti and Giorgio Colombo (from Pininfarina) decided to organize a true cruise on one of the most fascinating ocean liner in the world, the Raffaello, on which where loaded 3 Giulia 1600 Spider Duetto. The americans loved it.
\nThe model of the Museo is a Spider 1300 Junior <\/strong>with the Cut Tail, a solution adopted in 1970 together with a better trunk<\/strong> capacity, new fenders,<\/strong> new front and rear lamps<\/strong> and new seats<\/strong> with optional headrests. The production lasted for 28 years throughout which different series were made:<\/p>\n

series I – “Osso di seppia<\/strong>” (\u201cCuttlebone<\/em>\u201d) (1966 – 1969)
\nseries II – “Coda tronca<\/strong>” (\u201cCut tail<\/em>\u201d) (1969 – 1982)
\nseries III – “Aerodinamica<\/strong>” (\u201cAerodynamic<\/em>\u201d) (1983 – 1989)
\nseries IV – “Ultima<\/strong>” (\u201cLast<\/em>\u201d) (1989 – 1994)<\/p>\n\r\n\r\n \r\n