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Alfa Romeo TZ. The Cars,\u2008the Race Results<\/h2>\n

By Philippe Olczyk<\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/a>It came as something of a surprise to find my\u00adself pictured behind the wheel, on page four of Ol\u00adczyk\u2019s TZ book, in a picture that has ne\u00adver been released of a totally nonexistent car!<\/p>\n

Well, the car exists but it is neither a 1965 TZ prototype, nor is it an Asardo as implied in the text, nor was the Asardo the inspiration for the Giulia TZ, nor was the car pictured a \u201cTZ\u201d. In place of a proper history of the Giulia TZ is an article by Karl Ludvigsen copied from a 1959 \u201cSports Cars Illustrated\u201d about an American kit car called the Asardo. This article wasn\u2019t even cop\u00adied carefully, as the reader of this very expensive book will find that columns do not match and therefore the content does not make sense. Pages copied from \u201cRoad & Track\u201d, \u201cClassic and Sports Car\u201d, and the TZ Owners Manual make up the only textual content, and my inquiries reveal no permission was given for this use. Alfa Romeo was acknowledged for its support of this book in the promotional material but have subsequently said that they gave no endorsement.<\/p>\n

Sadly, the story of the TZ is generally well known, in that it was a car that would fit the GT competition rules of the mid-1960s, would be a suitable race machine for privateers, could do well in international long-distance races, and used some existing Alfa components. However, none of this comes across in the book. Instead the author hangs the tale on a totally unsupported no\u00adtion that the TZ came from the As\u00adardo. In fact, the car depicted as the TZ prototype by Olczyk is actually a 1965-built project of Ludovico Chizzola, who was one of the two brothers who formed Autodelta with Carlo Chiti. What makes Olczyk\u2019s premise so absurd is the fact that the first TZs predate this \u201cprototype\u201d by almost two years.<\/p>\n

The details listed above are meant to serve as a warning. A really comprehensive book about the lovely Alfa Romeo TZ would have been a very welcome addition to anyone\u2019s bookshelf; however, the Olczyk tome appears to be little more than an expensive print-out of a fairly outrageous Web site listing of cars. Sadly, many current TZ owners have been shocked to find their cars labeled as non-genuine in this work, without any supporting evidence. All in all, this a book to be avoided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alfa Romeo TZ. The Cars,\u2008the Race Results By Philippe Olczyk It came as something of a surprise to find my\u00adself pictured behind the wheel, on page four of Ol\u00adczyk\u2019s TZ book, in a picture that has ne\u00adver been released of a totally nonexistent car! Well, the car exists but it is neither a 1965 TZ prototype, nor is it an Asardo as implied in the text, nor was the Asardo the inspiration for the Giulia TZ, nor was the car […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":700187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[543,263,11339],"tags":[544,2942,17152,17940,3297],"class_list":["post-460058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alfa-romeo","category-car-culture","category-product","tag-alfa-romeo","tag-car-books","tag-car-culture","tag-product-reviews","tag-products"],"yoast_head":"\n[Book Review] Alfa Romeo TZ<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ed McDonough reviews a book about Alfa Romeo TZ\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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