Alfa Romeo Giulia GTC Cabriolet Open 1964 Green Metallic Matrix Scale Models 1:43

The Giulia GTC sits at a precise intersection of rarity and design integrity within the Alfa Romeo canon. Carrozzeria Touring of Milan built the open cabriolet body using their patented Superleggera tubular framework, producing a car that shared the GT coupe's twin-cam mechanicals while offering full open-air motoring. Matrix Scale Models has chosen this seldom-modelled variant for a resin replica at 1:43, finished in period-correct Green Metallic.

Tipo 101 Platform, Touring Coachwork

The Giulia GTC is an open cabriolet derivative of the Giulia GT coupe, built on the Tipo 101 platform. Its twin-cam inline-four powered the car in standard tune — the same unit that underpinned the entire Giulia GT family. What distinguishes the GTC is the fully folding soft top and the Superleggera body structure: a lightweight latticework of small-diameter steel tubes over which the aluminium and steel panels are formed. It is mechanically familiar but coachbuilt in the truest sense.

A Grand Tourer Built in Small Numbers

Production of the GTC ran from 1964 to 1966, with a limited number of examples completed — a figure that makes it substantially rarer than the Sprint GT coupe produced alongside it. Alfa Romeo positioned it as an upmarket open grand tourer, aimed at buyers seeking the Giulia GT driving experience without a fixed roof. The Green Metallic livery applied to this model reflects the colour palette available to GTC buyers of the mid-1960s, an era when Alfa Romeo's road car range offered metallic finishes as a mark of distinction. No motorsport history attaches to the GTC; its story is one of refined continental touring.

Matrix Scale Models: Resin at 1:43

Matrix Scale Models specialises in low-volume resin replicas of rare and significant road cars that mainstream diecast manufacturers rarely cover. The Giulia GTC in Green Metallic is a characteristic Matrix subject: a coachbuilt variant with a small production run, reproduced in resin at 1:43. Resin allows Matrix to capture the precise lines of the Touring cabriolet body — the shallow windscreen surround, the soft-top stack, the uninterrupted sill line — with a fidelity that pressings in zinc alloy rarely achieve at this scale.

In the Display Cabinet

For collectors focused on Italian coachbuilt road cars of the 1960s, the GTC fills a gap that no mainstream manufacturer has addressed consistently. Its Green Metallic finish gives it a distinctive presence on the shelf, standing out among Giulia GT replicas and making it a compelling centrepiece for any collection focused on rare Italian open tourers of the era.