For Sale: 1974 Alfa Romeo Alfasud in Katwijk, Netherlands

Alfa Romeo Alfasud 1.2 Ti, 1974. Two owners, 31,553 km, service books from new.

Why on earth am I so besotted with Alfa Romeo, along with countless others? It's a question I ask myself regularly, usually while standing at the roadside with smoke billowing from the engine bay or a dashboard lit up like a Christmas tree. The answer is as simple as it is inexplicable: because these are the only cars that make you feel truly alive. Not that you're driving from A to B, not that you're being efficient, but that you're actually doing something. Something with feeling, with passion, with a hint of Italian madness.

The Alfasud is perhaps the ultimate proof of that thesis. A car that was already rusting in the brochure, as the connoisseurs among us know. A car born from crisis, built in a brand new factory in Pomigliano d'Arco, deep in the south of Italy. It was the seventies, Alfa Romeo needed to reach the masses, and engineer Rudolf Hruska was given carte blanche to design something completely new. Front-wheel drive. A boxer engine. MacPherson front suspension. Disc brakes all round. For 1972, this was nothing short of revolutionary in this segment.

The story continues on our website, where the full file is kept as well. 93 photographs including the underside. The service history, scanned in full. Paint thickness measured panel by panel. A timeline from 15 September 1974 to today, with every owner and the mileage year by year in a single graph.

Every car here follows the same route: first pre-market, then the showroom, and finally the online auction on our own website. What changes is the way you buy, not the location - once a car has arrived, it stays with us in Katwijk. This one is in the showroom and you are welcome to come and see it, no appointment needed. You buy it here at a fixed price: no bidding, no waiting. Our showroom in Katwijk, 30 km from Amsterdam Schiphol, is open Mon-Fri 9-18 and Sat 10-17. Call ahead and it will be standing ready, with someone free for you.

Within the EU no customs duty arises on this purchase. Registration tax and registration costs in your own country are not included. We supply the export documents and assist with the registration. The price shown is the full price for collection in Katwijk. We arrange insured door-to-door transport worldwide, cost quoted per destination beforehand.

Prefer a different colour or specification than this example? Tell us what you are looking for - another Alfa Romeo we can often find through our network of marque specialists and collectors, outside the listings.

Our showroom measures 6,000 m�, with over 150 cars under one roof. HooG Selections, Katwijk, the Netherlands. Call or WhatsApp: +31 85 043 05 86.