Guido Moroni overleden op 10 april.

[Ron Gta]

Hij was één van de testrijders uit de gouden Alfa jaren.
De laatst overgeblevene uit dat select clubje.
R.I.P.

[tommaso]

Heb de naam opgezocht en kwam dit stukje tektst tegen , de herinnering van Elvira Ruocco:

What I feel for Guido Moroni is great respect and a sincere friendship which developed during our Wednesday meetings at the Archive. I have learnt a lot on these occasions, including how to read shop drawings. He is so humble he doesn't like people to talk about him, so I truly hope he won't hold these few lines against me. He arrived in Alfa Romeo in September 1938 and attended the company school and the Technical College evening classes at the same time. Three years later he was sent to the Design Division of Direzione Servizi Studi Speciali, where he worked as a racing car designer until the end of 1945. He signed many of the drawings for the technical details of the 512 prototype. Then he became an engine tester and, after being moved to Servizio Sperimentale in 1950, an experimental car tester. He operated under Consalvo Sanesi's oversight and gradually worked his way up until he replaced him when he retired in 1967.

In 1980 he was promoted to executive in the R&D division and supervised the prototype road testing. He retired in 1985 but kept working for Alfa Romeo as an advisor until 1997. Guido is one of those people who never seem to get old, neither in appearance nor in spirit, as his former colleagues can confirm. Whenever they met him on the way to the canteen, they stopped by and greeted him with a: “Hi, Moroni, how is it going? Look at that... he's always the same”. To which he invariably replied: “As the Scriptures said in the past, carry on until it lasts…”.

[Ron Gta]

Ik heb hem vorig jaar in Arese bij de herdenking van 100 Busso nog de hand gedrukt.
Het was een oud mannetje met een helder geheugen dat de ganse dag door verhalen van vroeger oprakelde.
Toch weer een stukje geschiedenis dat verloren gaat

[Harrie]

Fascinerend wat je tegenkomt als je zomaar even een naam intikt op Google. Hier een foto van Guido Moroni naast een prototype voor de Giulietta Sprint, ontwikkeld door Alfa Romeo zelf in 1953, nog voordat Bertone zich ermee ging bemoeien. Hiervan had ik nog nooit een foto gezien.

[Alfavaganza]

Alfa bouwde deze wagen als stijlreferentie voor (o.a.) Bertone.
Hier nog een paar foto's.