THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

At a time when Zapata-‘tached blokes in permanently-creased Crimplene trousers were watching The Persuaders on the telly while fantasising about big-motored two-seater coupes, the Montreal made quite an impact. Nine months before the World’s Fair Bertone’s poster-boy stylist Marcello Gandini had been given a 1.6 Giulia GT and an invitation to perhaps reconfigure it using the design values of his show-stopping Miura and Countach to create a front-engined car that would also stop the show by representing ‘the highest aspiration of Man in terms of cars’.

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