The Giulia was unashamedly developed at the expense of the Alfa Romeo 2600, a fact I covered in my article on the 2600 which you will find here. It’s a common problem, and not just with car makers, there is a tendency to concentrate on the new and forget the older, more tried solution. However, looking at the impact that the Giulia made it’s easy to see why this happened.
Alfa Romeo had, at the start of the 1960s, a large car, the 2000, which it developed into the even bigger 2600, and the smaller and neater Giulietta which had been in production since the mid 1950s. This had a 1300cc engine and the idea was to keep that but introduce a larger powerplant as well and so, in 1962, the Giulia was born.
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One of the good things you can do with a classic car is to race it and historic car racing is an exciting spectacle to watch as well as great fun to take part in.
The 1950s and 60s saw a perfusion of fast, hairy-chested but at the same time fun, sports cars roll out of the many car manufacturers in the British Isles. All of them were individual and all of them were statements of intention as much as they were designed as transport and the Triumph TR4 was no exception. 
I was reading a copy of Autocar dated August 1968 recently and I came across an advert for Rambler cars which caused me to do some research. 
Today a Rolls Royce Phantom, should you be thinking of buying one, will set you back a cool £250,000 to £300,000 which is not exactly peanuts! But how did the Rolls Royce look in the 1960s? Was it relatively cheaper or more expensive?
Inspired in part by British design and appearing between 1965 and 1976, the Peugeot 204 in one of its many guises was a popular car and a common sight on British roads.
The Austin Healey (Frogeye) Sprite was almost my first car but I got the MG Midget instead. However, this remains one of the finest, the best and certainly the most distinctive of the early 1960s sports cars!