The car has it going on!
Never actually have seen one in person but the Jalpa and many other Bertone designs just really speak to me far more than anything coming out of Pininfarina... Guess that is why I passed on a brand new 1980 Fiat Spider 2000 for $400 more than my new X1/9... Back in the late '80s when the kit thing was really rolling I actually scaled and lofted a LP 500 body to fit the X1/9... I built the buck for the body... Looked really cool and it scales quite nicely... Project was seriously derailed and abandoned but in retrospect the Jalpa would have been a better design to do this with. The cool thing about the House of Bertone was the reuse of elements like the handles and such which give folks like us the ability to actually see the connection our cars have with "super cars", cousins , brothers. However you look at it the designs have continuity throughout the era... Very cool indeed!
Thanks also for posting as I am fabing some " euro-bumpers" very similar to the ones on that Jalpa to replace the 5mph '79ers I just took off my car...