{"id":315,"date":"2017-08-30T23:54:33","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T03:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.speedcraftspecial.com\/wpperfect\/?p=315"},"modified":"2022-07-04T12:57:20","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T16:57:20","slug":"alfa-romeo-motorcycles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speedcraftspecial.com\/wpperfect\/alfa-romeo-motorcycles\/","title":{"rendered":"Alfa Romeo Motorcycles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-316\" title=\"alfa_romeo_logo\" src=\"https:\/\/speedcraftspecial.com\/wpperfect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/alfa_romeo_logo.gif\" alt=\"Alfa Romeo\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" \/><\/strong><strong>Rudolf Hruska<\/strong> was born in <strong>Vienna<\/strong> and attended the Vienna University of Technology at the same time as <strong>Otto Linton<\/strong>. He ended up in Italy owning a Porche dealership with <strong>Carlos Abarth<\/strong> (who was also from Vienna) and working for <strong>Cisitalia<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>H<\/strong>ruska designed the one piece tubular backbone frame for the <strong>Siata 208cs<\/strong> that Otto raced. He moved on to <strong>Alfa Romeo<\/strong> and worked on the design of the <strong>Giulietta <\/strong>which Otto also raced. He was at <strong>Simca<\/strong> and was involved in the design of the <strong>Abarth<\/strong> that Otto raced in 1964.<\/p>\n<p><strong>H<\/strong>ruska ended up head of <strong>Alfa Romeo AlfaSud<\/strong> where he design a rear engine type 33, that used a boxer type Alfa motor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A<\/strong>lthough he was tied into Abarth (<strong>Carlos was a motorcycle and Side car champion<\/strong>) he never designed motorcycles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>S<\/strong>omeone solved that problem.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_318\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-318\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-318\" title=\"alfaboxer\" src=\"https:\/\/speedcraftspecial.com\/wpperfect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/alfaboxer.jpg\" alt=\"Motorcycle with Alfa Romeo Boxer Engine\" width=\"470\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/speedcraftspecial.com\/wpperfect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/alfaboxer.jpg 470w, https:\/\/speedcraftspecial.com\/wpperfect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/alfaboxer-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-318\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Motorcycle with Alfa Romeo Boxer Engine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If a flat 4 1300 is not enough you can always go for the nice 2500 V6!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_317\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-317\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-317\" title=\"alfabikesv6\" src=\"https:\/\/speedcraftspecial.com\/wpperfect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/alfabikesv6.jpg\" alt=\"Harley powered by a 2.5 liter Alfa Romeo V6\" width=\"470\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/speedcraftspecial.com\/wpperfect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/alfabikesv6.jpg 470w, https:\/\/speedcraftspecial.com\/wpperfect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/alfabikesv6-300x155.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-317\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harley powered by a 2.5 liter Alfa Romeo V6<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rudolf Hruska was born in Vienna and attended the Vienna University of Technology at the same time as Otto Linton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[2,4,42],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motorcycle","tag-abarth","tag-alfa-romeo","tag-cafe-racer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedcraftspecial.com\/wpperfect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedcraftspecial.com\/wpperfect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedcraftspecial.com\/wpperfect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedcraftspecial.com\/wpperfect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedcraftspecial.com\/wpperfect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/speedcraftspecial.com\/wpperfect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":825,"href":"https:\/\/speedcraftspecial.com\/wpperfect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions\/825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedcraftspecial.com\/wpperfect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedcraftspecial.com\/wpperfect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedcraftspecial.com\/wpperfect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedcraftspecial.com\/wpperfect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}