Build your own TZ1

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Coys’ Blenheim Palace sale, this weekend, fills to bursting point with Italian stallions. Be there on time for what may be the most interesting of the car lots, though. The very first to sell isn’t a car but some boxes full of Alfa-bits. Or as Coys puts it more gently: ‘A comprehensive set of original components, the property of a gentleman’. The thing about it is that it’s not some tatty scrap from a sad Giulia or an overgrown Bertone; this actually is a Tubolare Zagato (or TZ1) without its tubular space frame chassis and most of its sharply cut Zagato body. What you get for the 50- 60,000 GBP estimate is the spare set of a racing car, as stocked by the gentleman vendor. Most of the independent suspension and disc brakes are there, as is a correct engine, a gearbox, propshaft and rear diff, a steering box, a set of seats and a nose section. We cannot check the authenticity of them here, but trust this is a splendid base to start with a TZ1 of your own. Oh – and don’t feel like doing all the hard work yourself? Then this TZ1 tribute may be something for you. Or do you prefer this Alfa Disco Volante tribute? Or a Coda Tronca ‘Continuation’..? 

(Words Jeroen Booij, picture courtesy Coys of Kensington)

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