“The factory price was 2,700,000 lire, to which you had to add another 400,000 lire to improve performance and fine tune [the] suspension.

“The SZ was a simple and easy car to run which made it very popular around races in Italy in ’61/’62. There was hardly any race at that time that did not feature a half-dozen of them, making the 1300cc GT class extremely competitive.” – Gianni Bulgari reminisces in 2023 about his Alfa Romeo Giulietta SZ