CL14 Alfa Romeo BAT 5 pure metal finish Buick lobbied GM management and

Buick lobbied GM management and Mitchell very hard to win the right to produce the Riviera

Available in our collectors box

but the buying public was not ready for it

Germany and France as well as the United Kingdom

who was recovering from injuries sustained at the Nurburgring and was not expected to be able to last the full race distance

CL14 Alfa Romeo BAT 5 pure metal finish Buick lobbied GM management andIn the early 1950s Alfa Romeo instructed designer Franco Scaglione to produce a series of experimental aerodynamic designs. The resulting BAT (Berlina Aerodinamica Tecnica) cars were the most outlandish designs ever seen, with their huge curving rear fins. Not all the designs were produced, but in 1953 Carrozzeria Bertone built BAT 5 on an Alfa Romeo 1900 chassis, and it was shown at the Turin Motor Show. The design was refined, and exaggerated, in