The ugliest racing car in history?

[Lord Pig-Pen]

I think it looks cool... but then I am not really in a position to comment, being a Chavalier driver and a fan of Japans biggest ugliest most horrid... the Nissan 300C.

[Buck Bundy]

The Alfa I could live with.

But I would have to do something slightly better with badge arrangement.

How about this one? Just before they got too slab sided?



Buck

[Boorish Grobian]

Gorgeous!
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[Christopher]

Yep. That will do.

[Nordic]

How anyone could compare the Alfa 33 with the DP Dallara is beyond me.

It looks (and sounds) lovely.

[oldtimer]

The Alfa I could live with.

But I would have to do something slightly better with badge arrangement.

How about this one? Just before they got too slab sided?

Now that is what a racing car should look like 

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[garyfrogeye]

I'm a big fan of Frank Costin, but even the best get it wrong sometimes.

[chop456]

[Big G]

That just looks like a smurf on wheels 

[enzo]

I wasn't comparing it too the dallara i was just saying that in the incarnation i pictured that it was a bit ugly to short on the nose and slab sided, i know it sounds lovely but compared to most alfa's it's not pretty is it?

How anyone could compare the Alfa 33 with the DP Dallara is beyond me.

It looks (and sounds) lovely.

[Nordic]

I think most of the prototypes from the mid 70's followed the same design, gone were the curves of the late 60's and very early 70's that spawned the 917. 512 and Matras and early 33T's.

The later 33T, Mirage GR7, Lola 380 and the 2 litre cars of the era all shared the flat slab like sides.

It was not until the late 70s when the 936, and Renault Alpines arrived that curves were back in fashion.

[Boorish Grobian]

I always thought the late seventies Alpine Renaults were about as lovely as it gets, with the Porsche 936's in their Martini colors not far behind.  Just simply very evocative machines.  As Nordic well said, in thirty years no one will give a rats ass about "historic" Daytona Prototypes.  Better off tearing them apart and throwing on the scrap heap.
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[Nordic]

Amen to that, the 936 and Alpine were the cars around when I first went to a sportscar race. Both classic designs of the era that looked lovely, but Deisel bashers take note, sounded very muted after the screaming DFV's and BMW 6's. A bit like the R10 and 908.

They also crushed to opposition in the same way.

[enzo]

I'm just like any other red blooded male then

I like curves !!