1990 Alfa Romeo SZ Coupé - 3.0 V6 Zagato

Number of cylinders: 6

Service history: Present

Alfa Romeo SZ 3.0 V6 Zagato, 1990. Four owners, 21,559 km, service books from new.

We've got him! Alfa Romeo was absorbed into the Fiat group in 1986, and at that point it had some serious image problems. To polish up that image, the link with Alfa Romeo's rich sports-car heritage was revived, and at the end of the 1980s an uncompromising sports car was developed together with Zagato.

At the 1989 Geneva Motor Show, Zagato unveiled the first prototype of the SZ under the name ES-30, experimental sportscar with a 3.0 litre engine. The car's design, however, did not come entirely from Zagato. Alfa Romeo's Centro Stile, with Walter de'Silva and Alberto Bertelli, and Fiat's Centro Stile, with Robert Opron, were also called upon to design the new sports car. The broad strokes of the SZ ultimately came from Robert Opron and Antonio Castellana. The car looked controversial and differed completely from every other Alfa Romeo model of the era, which earned the SZ the nickname 'il mostro' (the monster).

The story continues on our website, where the full file is kept as well. 107 photographs. The service history, scanned in full. Paint thickness measured panel by panel. The original factory brochure to page through. A timeline from 25 May 1990 to today, with every owner and the mileage year by year in a single graph.

Every car here follows the same route: first pre-market, then the showroom, and finally the live auction on our own site. What changes is the way you buy, not the location — once a car has arrived, it stays with us in Katwijk. This one is in the showroom and you are welcome to come and see it, no appointment needed. You buy it here at a fixed price: no bidding, no waiting. Our showroom in Katwijk, 30 km from Amsterdam Schiphol, is open Mon–Fri 9–18 and Sat 10–17. Call ahead and it will be standing ready, with someone free for you.

Within the EU no customs duty arises on this purchase. Registration tax and registration costs in your own country are not included. We supply the export documents and assist with the registration. The price shown is the full price for collection in Katwijk. We arrange insured door-to-door transport worldwide, cost quoted per destination beforehand.

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