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

including this top flight limo which sold for $4700

His first prototype was displayed at the Ford Century of Progress Exhibition at the 1933 World’s Fair

Available in our collectors box

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