1980 Alfa Romeo Alfasud Sprint Veloce

Designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro at Italdesign, the Alfasud Sprint is one of the prettiest small coupés ever drawn — and one of the best-driving. The Veloce runs Alfa’s jewel of a 1.5-litre flat-four “boxer,” revving hard and singing through a five-speed box, driving the front wheels of a car that weighs barely 900kg. The result is a machine that flatters the driver on every corner, no straight-line heroics required.

These have become genuinely rare — most dissolved decades ago — so a numbers-matching example like this is a real find. It’s a connoisseur’s classic and a wonderful driving-experience car for anyone who values finesse over brute force. [ADD PROVENANCE: history, condition notes, how it came to Montana.]