Alfa's

Post Thu Sep 08, 2011 3:00 pm

Now I want this.

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C236377

and this

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C238498

Post Thu Sep 08, 2011 4:26 pm

Ouch to the 2nd one.. Evil cow.

Post Thu Sep 08, 2011 6:16 pm

Jhonno wrote:Ouch to the 2nd one.. Evil cow.

Some wive's just do not understand....

Post Thu Sep 08, 2011 6:16 pm

Jhonno wrote:Ouch to the 2nd one.. Evil cow.

Some wive's just do not understand....

Post Thu Sep 08, 2011 7:40 pm

Always liked the GTV since watching this as a kid

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Post Thu Sep 08, 2011 7:43 pm

daimlerman wrote:
Jhonno wrote:Ouch to the 2nd one.. Evil cow.
Some wive's just do not understand....

They can feck off if they think they will be telling me what cars and number of I can and can't own. I make this clear. Mind you.. I am single..

Post Thu Sep 08, 2011 8:12 pm

Mate, we all get pussy whipped eventually

Post Thu Sep 08, 2011 8:17 pm

I just hide all bills!

Post Thu Sep 08, 2011 8:21 pm

E30BeemerLad wrote:Always liked the GTV since watching this as a kid

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+1 Lee !

The first one does nothing for me though - a bit like the 2002 - just don't see the appeal

Post Thu Sep 08, 2011 8:43 pm

capri_rob wrote:
E30BeemerLad wrote:Always liked the GTV since watching this as a kid

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+1 Lee !

The first one does nothing for me though - a bit like the 2002 - just don't see the appeal

Wash your mouth out. I'd prefer it to the 2002.

Post Thu Sep 08, 2011 9:03 pm

Blitz wrote:
capri_rob wrote:
E30BeemerLad wrote:Always liked the GTV since watching this as a kid

[youtube][/youtube]
+1 Lee !

The first one does nothing for me though - a bit like the 2002 - just don't see the appeal
Wash your mouth out. I'd prefer it to the 2002.

Nah - sorry mate most small 70's saloons do nothing for me - I'd have an RS2000 over one of those Alfa's or a 2002 without batting an eye.

Post Thu Sep 08, 2011 10:14 pm

E30BeemerLad wrote:Mate, we all get pussy whipped eventually

Post Thu Sep 08, 2011 11:07 pm

I like the Bertone car in the 1st advert, although I have never driven one.

I have owned 2 GTV6's like the GTV in the 2nd advert.. fook knows why I bought the second one. Apart from the looks and the sound of the V6 engine(as in the Octopussy clip) they are absolute piles of shit! Italian cars of that period evaporate!

I had a couple of 2002's too, and a Mk1 RS2000, it's the RS that I would really like to have in my garage.

Post Thu Sep 08, 2011 11:19 pm

First one is a Guilia - a Bertone coupe not a Guilietta - the small square saloon.

Post Fri Sep 09, 2011 9:50 pm

I've always loved these Alfas.

Spotted last year on Mont Ventoux in France.

Just after we saw these the swiss parked up.

A couple of UK ones at the Bromley Pageant in 2010

Utterly beautiful.

I remember this one being owned by an old italian guy who had had it for years and clearly loved it.

While I'm at it, some lancias

Post Mon Sep 12, 2011 5:11 pm

One day, when god put the sun on me - I will drive one of these!

Post Mon Sep 12, 2011 6:41 pm

78dude wrote:One day, when god put the sun on me - I will drive one of these!

105s do zilch for me , like an '02 but rustier

BUT a Montreal, now we are talking !

Post Mon Sep 12, 2011 7:56 pm

Alfas are like everything else - stuff you like, stuff you don't.

I'd have a Mark 1 Mexico or RS2000 over either a 2002 or a Giulia 105 Coupe. I've never liked either.

But the Montreal, 2600 Sprint, Chrome bumper Alfetta Coupe (GT and GTV), chrome bumper Alfasud Ti or Alfasud Sprint are all heroic in varying degrees. Of the fifties stuff, the Giulietta Sprint is quite twee - and the 1900 Super Sprint* is just art. You'd have an Alfa 90 or Alfa 6 for comedy value. The 75's were great cars but they look so old and shit now.

I have to say, out of all the miserable recent Alfas, the new Giulietta looks very fine.

*This is what it looks like: http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C223036