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Re: It's Alfa Wednesday
« Reply #30 on: January 10, 2022, 01:38:11 PM »
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Re: It's Alfa Wednesday
« Reply #31 on: January 10, 2022, 08:37:07 PM »
Was looking to buy an Alfa 916 Spider 12 months ago, they were selling $4000-$5000 for the 2ltr model $15000 for the 6 cylinder. Couldn't make up my mind so decided to put it off. Just looked again a month ago and now selling for $8-$9500 2ltr and the 6 cylinder around $25000. It'll have to wait until the madness subsides.

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Re: It's Alfa Wednesday
« Reply #32 on: January 13, 2022, 03:20:02 PM »




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Re: It's Alfa Wednesday
« Reply #33 on: January 13, 2022, 06:46:24 PM »
My brother has a boat tail duetto something and I have a Lotus Europa.  Some years ago he realized "Who knew?  Such neat cars can be so rare and worth so little!"
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Re: It's Alfa Wednesday
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Re: It's Alfa Wednesday
« Reply #35 on: January 14, 2022, 02:13:19 PM »
long time obsession for me. let's expand the color selection a bit.

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Re: It's Alfa Wednesday
« Reply #36 on: January 14, 2022, 07:18:50 PM »
That is one gorgeous automobile!  :bow:
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Re: It's Alfa Wednesday
« Reply #37 on: January 14, 2022, 08:12:00 PM »
My only Alfa experience is helping a friend change the engine on his 1750 GTV back in the 1980's. I, like most that love Italian things look at Alfas and think how lovely they look but I can't shake 2 images out of my head from the 70's and eighties. That of uncontrollable rust and smoking exhausts, plus suspect reliability. It was rare to see an Alfa without one of these and most seemed to suffer from all three. The reliability seemed to be just the "Italian factor" and the smoking was the lack of valve guide seals from memory and the rust I heard was typical 70's car reasons combined with the use by Alfa of cheap Russian steel. Pity as I've always liked the look of them even the new ones. 
The car forum I'm on a member took a new Alfa out for a long test drive and posted an image of it with the hood up on the side of the road waiting for help to arrive. Seems some things never change.

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Re: It's Alfa Wednesday
« Reply #39 on: January 15, 2022, 09:56:09 AM »
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Re: It's Alfa Wednesday
« Reply #40 on: January 17, 2022, 04:58:56 PM »


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Not a '66 Duetto but close enough

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Re: It's Alfa Wednesday
« Reply #41 on: January 17, 2022, 05:19:09 PM »
Tasty shots…wow on that green one!!
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Re: It's Alfa Wednesday
« Reply #42 on: January 17, 2022, 05:21:57 PM »
I know, I know...the green is a great choice!

Maybe one of WG's Photoshop whiz-kids can reimagine it in red...with gold wheels   :thumb:
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Re: It's Alfa Wednesday
« Reply #43 on: January 17, 2022, 08:44:54 PM »
I would happily own / drive any of these classics....(*SIGH*)...but sadly, ALL are out of my financial league...




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Re: It's Alfa Wednesday
« Reply #44 on: January 17, 2022, 10:17:35 PM »
Behind that Spyder is Andretti's Indy Lola.

I saw him race that car at Indy '85.  He was favored but got smoked by Danny Sullivan, "spin & win".  Mario, 2nd place.  My first time at Indy.
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Re: It's Alfa Wednesday
« Reply #45 on: January 18, 2022, 02:32:24 AM »
I hear Indy is quite the visual and auditory experience.
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Re: It's Alfa Wednesday
« Reply #46 on: January 18, 2022, 01:41:50 PM »
I hear Indy is quite the visual and auditory experience.

Dan Cook sports writer for the San Antonio Express News said there are three annual sporting venue events that have to be experienced for emotional anticipation of the start: The Indy 500, The Kentucky Derby, and the OU-Texas Game.  (I've been to two of them.  I thought my heart might jump out of my chest. Would like to go the Derby someday.)

from the 'net

Dan Cook, the San Antonio sportswriter and broadcaster who coined the phrase "The opera ain't over till the fat lady sings", has written his last column after 51 years in the business.

[L]ooking back, it was my great privilege and pleasure to sit in the press boxes for 30 Super Bowls, 22 Kentucky Derby races, 11 Indy 500 runs, three Daytona 500s, several Major League Baseball All-Star Games, perhaps 200 Texas League games, countless college and pro football games, 25 Cotton Bowls, a half-dozen other bowls and at ringside for at least 35 world championship boxing matches.
There was more. So much more.

Perhaps even better than having a press-box seat was shaking hands and visiting one-on-one with many of the greatest legends of our time, from Jack Dempsey, Babe Ruth, Rocky Marciano and Joe Louis to Ted Williams, Jim Brown, A.J. Foyt, Johnny Rutherford, and Johnny Unitas, with many dozens more in between.
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Re: It's Alfa Wednesday
« Reply #47 on: January 19, 2022, 11:10:48 AM »
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Re: It's Alfa Wednesday
« Reply #48 on: January 19, 2022, 08:10:27 PM »


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Re: It's Alfa Wednesday
« Reply #49 on: January 19, 2022, 09:19:15 PM »
Interesting color combo!  The closest I'm going to get to that car is the T-shirt I have with that model! 

Someone should buy a Stelvio Alfa SUV...the best of both worlds!
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Re: It's Alfa Wednesday
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Re: It's Alfa Wednesday
« Reply #51 on: January 20, 2022, 06:33:05 PM »
Previously sold on BaT for $28000.
I expect it will blow past that number, and flirt with $50,000.



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Re: It's Alfa Wednesday
« Reply #53 on: January 22, 2022, 04:54:14 PM »
https://phoenix.craigslist.org/evl/cto/d/tempe-alfa-romeo-collection/7435076112.html

"BARN FRESH!!!" - - - - Right here on ALFA-FRIDAY!!

That would be $2,500 "EACH"...then add $25,000+ to restore to perfection...and you are all set to GO! :laugh: :grin: :wink: :thumb: :bow: :cool: :boozing:

Better off (IMHO), buying one of these running and complete... :wink:







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Re: It's Alfa Wednesday
« Reply #55 on: January 27, 2022, 01:40:29 PM »
A buddy of mine in NORCAL just bought one of these Stelvio SUV's...



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Re: It's Alfa Wednesday
« Reply #56 on: January 27, 2022, 02:29:32 PM »
 Not Wednesday, but as a former but far from recovered  Alfa fanatic I have been watching this post , bu refraining to post so far.
My addiction started a long time ago in Italy , while watching Domenico Modugno sing Volare and taking flight in a Giulietta Spider in AGIP TV commercials
 Here is a pic of my last Alfa resto as seen at a recent car show, sold off years ago after making a career change.
 1971 GTV with a Weber carbed  Twin Spark engine, originally rescued as a rolling shell project and completely rebuilt including extensive metal work
The other Twin Spark engine standing alone lived in my  Kamm Tail Spider before getting the original swapped back before selling








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Re: It's Alfa Wednesday
« Reply #57 on: January 27, 2022, 02:31:49 PM »
$74,001 at the hammer...plus, 5% premium. It is a very nice Alfa.



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Re: It's Alfa Wednesday
« Reply #58 on: January 27, 2022, 02:34:38 PM »
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Re: It's Alfa Wednesday
« Reply #59 on: January 27, 2022, 04:24:11 PM »
Not Wednesday, but as a former but far from recovered  Alfa fanatic I have been watching this post , bu refraining to post so far.
My addiction started a long time ago in Italy , while watching Domenico Modugno sing Volare and taking flight in a Giulietta Spider in AGIP TV commercials
 Here is a pic of my last Alfa resto as seen at a recent car show, sold off years ago after making a career change.
 1971 GTV with a Weber carbed  Twin Spark engine, originally rescued as a rolling shell project and completely rebuilt including extensive metal work
The other Twin Spark engine standing alone lived in my  Kamm Tail Spider before getting the original swapped back before selling








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