Should Alfa Romeo's new 8C look like this Montreal render?

“Back in 1986 my father bought a shiny orange Alfa Romeo Montreal. I remember the night he came home with this quite irregular V8. He was reversing into the garage. The smoke was surrounding and the first things I saw were red taillights and chromed mufflers. As a young boy I can recall it as the beginning for my growing love towards the whole automotive world.”

It’s no wonder that Luca Serafini has chosen Montreal as the latest recipient of a rendered modernisation, then. A rendered modernisation that anyone with functioning eyes will surely be campaigning Alfa itself to put into production, perhaps wearing those resurrected 8C badges.

“Quite often I went downstairs to uncover the orange Alfa and see reflections, lines and shapes," continues Luca, "smelling its leather interior and acting as a pro driver at its concave steering wheel.

“Looking at it now I cannot feel the same when I was a kid. So it’s been almost ten years that I wanted to give a quick look at the future and feel again those moments.”

Luca describes this as a Montreal ‘in a Vision GT dress’, Alfa’s obtuse, eyebrowed V8 coupe if it was reborn with a slinkier, more supercar-like design for racing in a virtual world. We imagine it’d need to pack more than its Seventies namesake’s 200bhp and 7.6sec 0-60mph time to be competitive, but its designer isn’t too bothered.

“It’s not about style choices or functional engineering. I tried to create subjectively something that was able to take me back to being child. Something on four wheels that makes you say WOW.”

Reckon he’s done it? Oh, and for reference, here’s a littler Luca riding in the passenger seat of his dad’s Montreal all those years ago. Sweet story, no?

You can find Luca on Instagram via @serafinistile