{"id":495928,"date":"2016-10-01T00:40:02","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T00:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=36517"},"modified":"2023-12-20T15:43:26","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T15:43:26","slug":"disco-volante-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/disco-volante-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Disco Volante Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<p><strong>The Quest for Aerodynamics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One day, after learning that I own four Alfa Romeos, a young man asked me, \u201cWhy Alfa Romeo? Why do you like Alfas so much?\u201d Difficult to answer the question at first thought. However, I tried to explain the memory the cars evoke in me\u2014to a person who knows little of motor sport\u2019s history and doesn\u2019t care much about classic cars. I told him of this passion for cars at that age before the hormones began to shape my adolescent brain. I told him of the lingering influences of the design and mechanical developments that Alfa Romeo had in our current lives and means of personal transportation. I tried to explain the importance of the design and mechanical concepts of certain classic cars, such as the Alfa 1900, which are still today with us, even though most of us don\u2019t realize that. As an example, I explained the significance of the legacy of the Alfa Romeo Disco Volante to modern automotive design. \u201cDisco what? What is this?\u201d I was asked several times.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n        .memberful-global-teaser-content p:last-child{\n            -webkit-mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n            mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n        }\n    <\/style>\n<div class='memberful-global-marketing-content'>\n<div class=\"a07online-global-marketing-content-wrapper\">\n<h2 class=\"a07online-global-marketing-title\">No Subscription? 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I told him of this passion for cars at that age before the hormones began [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":574117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11272,15106],"tags":[17140,17221],"class_list":["post-495928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-members-only","category-by-design","tag-members-only","tag-vrr-column-by-design"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Disco Volante Legacy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/disco-volante-legacy\/\" \/>\n<link rel=\"next\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/disco-volante-legacy\/2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Disco Volante Legacy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Quest for Aerodynamics One day, after learning that I own four Alfa Romeos, a young man asked me, \u201cWhy Alfa Romeo? 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