Alfa GTV-'74

Hmmm. I reduced the size of the pic to 128 kb wonder what's going wrong, the path name is correct I believe. Oh I forgot to say the car is in Los Angeles, just incase there's anyone itnterested in buying it.

glenn

Life is analogue

I'll try this yet again.




Life is analogue

[This message was edited by Wolf on Sat 01 May 2004 at 21:10.]

Wolf - I think you need to reduce the images to 50KB or less.

The GTVs were lovely things - I suppose the drier environment of LA means there was enough metal left to be worth restoring. Over here the only thing left of most GTVs is a rusty outline on the pavement about 14' x 5'....

It's my birthday next week - could your mate giftwrap & post it..?

One more chance I turned this image into a gif and it's now 28kb. lots of bad stuff now in the image.


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Julie wants a GTV (or GT Junior) but I've got to finish the drawn out restoration of the '60 Giulietta spider that's in the garage first( It was much worse than I thought - don't inspect cars at dusk!). I've got two 105 Berlinas (sedans) in storage back in NZ. They are under rated cars - don't look much but go like stink - the Giulia Tis had a CD of 0.34, not bad for a 60s family saloon.

Simon

Good to see the pics and response
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My friend is selling a great car and buying a Berlina, don't know any other designation or the year, but it looks like a wreck but siad it drives well and as much fun as the GTV. but the red GTV is such a beauty.

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My first car was a green Berlina 2000.

I still have fond memories of that car, it was full of rust but mechanically pretty sound. It sounded gorgeous, had wonderful steering, offset organ pedals like a 911 and was a perfect car to learn to drive fast in. The only nasty habit it had was it bit really hard in the wet with no warning at all. I spun it many times before learning to button off when it was slippery.

I was walking down the street near where I work today, saw a silver GTV6 and thought it was my old car for a second. Now that has to be one of the nicest sounding cars ever made. Just the thing you wound the windows and revved through tunnels for the hell of it. I know if I drove one now it would feel like a sloppy old thing but I loved mine and felt ill when I sold it (for a profit) to buy my first home. What a car.

Its a funny thing as you get older how you tolerate lack of quality and moody old Italian cars just wouldnt fit the bill now for me. I always marvelled that everytime I got into my various Alfas, Fiats and Lancias, how they always seemed to feel different each time.

I love the 147 GTA. That looks like a really modern GTV6 to me (with a ton more grunt) but seems to have the old Alfa traits of a dogey car built around a stunning engine.

Shame.

Ahhh, the "Bertone coupe", as it's called in Sweden, is one of the best looking cars ever. Normally cars might look good when new and then look ugly and dated after a couple of years. Some of them might then start to look good again when really old. But GTx has allways looked stunning! No, I don't think the current Alfas, lookers as they are, might accomplish that.

JohanR

Never owned or driven an Alfa but they seemed to make good looking and sounding cars. We used to sit around car parks and watch them rust.

Howard