Why Alfa Romeo Uses A Four Leaf Clover - Past Gas #253

Past Gas by Donut Media

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Automotive, Leisure, Comedy, History

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🗓️ 9 September 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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This week, the guys do a deep dive into one of the oldest Italian marques still in business. How did they become so dominant in racing? What made their team driver, Enzo Ferrari, so mad at them that he left to start his own business? And how did an American movie starring Dustin Hoffman springboard them back into the zeitgeist? This is the history of Alfa Romeo, Part One. Thanks to our sponsors: Thanks to Allstate for sponsoring today’s episode! Click here to check Allstate first and see how much you could save on car insurance. Download the PrizePicks app today and use code GAS and get $50 instantly when you play $5! Go to https://Indeed.com/PASTGAS right now and support our show by saying you heard about Indeed on this podcast. Visit Lexus.com/Motorsports to learn more about Lexus Racing and get all of the details on upcoming races. Go to https://chime.com/gas. Chime. Feels like progress. More about Show: Follow Nolan on IG and Twitter @nolanjsykes. Follow Joe on IG and Twitter @joegweber. Follow Donut @donutmedia, and subscribe to our Youtube and Facebook channels! Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or using this link: http://bit.ly/PastGas. If you like the show, telling a friend about it would be helpful! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: http://bit.ly/PastGas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey what's up everybody welcome back to past gas this week it's part one of two on the history of alpha Romeo this episode a lot of cool cars also a lot of hard pronunciations for me
0:10.3	Yeah, how about a 27 liter four cylinder engine? A V12 with five
0:15.4	superchargers that never got to race unfortunately. How about that? And what's up
0:19.4	with that weird logo? Let's all find out together.
0:22.7	Bart's here.
0:24.0	It's a podcast. I should have said something.
0:28.0	Winter 1945.
0:33.3	Alpha Romeo's newly appointed chief designer, Otsario Sata Pullega, steps through the rubble of the bombed
0:39.0	out Alpha Romeo Factory in Portello, Milan, where it had stood since the company's inception in
0:44.1	1906. Shattered racing trophies are strewn about, covered in dust, an apt
0:49.8	metaphor for the iconic's past and present.
0:53.0	Alpha's benefactor, the Italian government,
0:56.0	was on the losing side of World War II,
0:58.0	which had ended just a few months earlier.
1:00.0	Auto production had been shut down for years, and the fate of the company now hangs in the balance.
1:06.4	Sada spots a dusty tarp as he walks through the ruins.
1:09.6	Adens a dusty tarp.
1:11.4	And pulls it to the floor revealing a surviving race car
1:14.7	prototype from before the war. He has an idea. He returns to what once had been
1:20.7	his office and digs out some kind of wrinkled rudimentary blueprints and
1:25.2	smiles.
1:27.2	Today on past gas, it's part one of a two-part series on Alpha Romeo.
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