Birth of a Giulietta Part 2

Part 2 of the Birth of a Giulietta takes the manufacturing process of the 1961 Alfa Romeos from to loading the cars onto the truck for shipment to distributors. We have labeled these as pages 15 through 26; note the actual pages are numbered differently as they were apparently part of a longer magazine.

Bear in mind that the Sprint coupes were made in the Bertone factory and the completed bodies then shipped to Alfa for the engine and drivetrain installation; the same applied to the Pininfarina Spider. The Berlina was the only Alfa completely constructed at Portello.

Today, most cars are assembled from rather than produced. Not so at the old Alfa works, where virtually everything was produced in-house (a Ford idea). The carbs, electrics, gauges, lights, and some interior items were made by outside suppliers such as Bosch, Marelli, Weber, but at least on the Berlinas, virtually all mechanical items and body panels were produced in the same factory.

Read Part 1