While the Alfa Romeo Giulietta is primarily known as the game-changing mass-production model that catapulted Milan into the modern era, the diminutive performer was produced in a handful of smaller batches by competing carrozzerias .

Not the least of these began as a Bertone-bodied concept car on display at the 1957 Turin Motor Show.

The new Sprint Speciale was penned by the legendary Franco Scaglione, who channeled cues from the Disco Volante sports-racing spiders, and his own BAT concept cars, to arrive at an aerodynamically superior design for this coach-built Giulietta.

By 1959, a revised version of the Sprint Speciale entered production, and it was developed through an additional Giulietta-based variant before being adopted to the successive Giulia model.

It is worth noting that many enthusiasts prefer the Giulietta-based Sprint Speciale to the later Giulia variant, as the earlier cars featured more elegant interiors with painted dashboards.

Though Giulietta Sprint Speciales ...