Initially introduced in prototype form at the 1957 Turin Motor Show, the Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Speciale entered production in 1959 as a boutique coach-built version of the popular Giulietta.

Bertone’s Franco Scaglione penned the aerodynamic coachwork, lifting various cues from his own Alfa Romeo BAT show cars, as well as the Disco Volante sports-racers.

This finely presented example of the Giulietta Sprint Speciale is the 216th of 374 examples built in 1961.

As clarified by a letter on file from Alfa Romeo’s Centro Documentazione, chassis number 177216 completed assembly in late October 1961, finished in Bluette paint, and it was sold one month later to a marque dealership in Lugano, Switzerland, called the Società per il Commercio dei Prodotti Alfa Romeo.

By the 2000s, the Alfa Romeo had come into the possession of a collector residing in Belgium, by which time the coachwork had been repainted in red.

The Giulietta was discovered there in 2010 by a Sprint Speciale enthusias...