Well, here’s something slightly unexpected: a minty Chevrolet Beretta GTZ in the exact all-white color scheme I was hoping for listed on a Swiss-market classifieds site. No, this was not on my bingo card for a potential find this week. The Beretta not only comes with the elusive manual transmission and the killer white-on-white scheme, but it’s also accompanied by a parts car! The seller, whoever he is, sure loves these Quad 4-powered Berettas, and we salute him for it. Find this 1991 GTZ listed here on Ricardo.ch for 7,000 in what is presumably Swiss francs.
Thanks to Barn Finds reader Tom Oberbueren Switzerland for flagging this amazing find! There’s certainly a following for GM products overseas, but it typically skews towards older American land yachts and wagons, not an early 90s sport compact. That being said, just like there’s a next generation of car collectors in the U.S., the same applies for other countries as well, and it may very well be the offspring of an American muscle car fan that imported this Beretta. The car appears to remind in entirely U.S. market condition, as it still wears its sealed-beam headlights – though it does have the mounting hardware for a Swiss license plate.
The seller notes that it runs well and shows just 26,000 KMs, which works out to just over 16,000 miles. The seller clearly found himself one of the best examples left in the U.S. before importing it, but he does point out that it apparently sat in the sun for some period of time as the headliner and dashboard are “…coming loose.” I can only interpret this to mean the headliner is starting to drop and perhaps the dash is cracked in places. Regardless, those are easy fixes because of the included parts car, and the low mileage on the Quad 4 engine is a rare find no matter the jurisdiction.
This Beretta GTZ has been retrofitted with the European-specification headlights, so one would presume it has been overseas for a longer period of time. I wonder how the seller found himself with two of these limited-production 90s coupes, as they are hard enough to find in the U.S. It also strikes me as unlikely that there are many potential suitors for this car overseas, so is there a chance it makes sense for someone to bring the white car back home? The 180 horsepower front-driver is a surprisingly fun car to drive, so owning one in the best color combo with low miles may be tempting enough for someone to put it in a cargo container and pay the shipping charges.
This Beretta looks really nice. A Quad 4 and a stick will be fun to drive too. The ground effects and rims really dress it up too.
There was one of these GTZ’s in our neighborhood that
I saw often,then one day it was gone.
I guess if you have to have a Beretta,this is the one to have.
They could have at least added a pic of the dash and headliner.
You could split the cost of a freight container with a Swiss cheese company, to get the car back to North America!!!
The white car retains its US-market flush-mount composite (separate bulb and lens/reflector housing) headlights. “Sealed-beam headlights” would have the bulb, lens and reflector as a single integrated unit resembling the ones retrofitted to the parts car, tho’ those may well be non-flush composite units as well.