Back in the old days before racing cars became mobile billboards for caffeinated cough syrup manufacturers and state run oil companies, racing cars were painted in national racing colors. white was Germany, green was England, and of course red was for the excitable Italians. Hence, when it comes time to repaint your old Italian car, […]
Back about 25 years ago when I bought my GTV, they were cool,old interesting cars you could pick up for not much money. Now GTV’s seem to be following the air-cooled 911 into terra expensiva. That’s great if you are a hedge fund manager, but for the rest of us, if we want to make […]
Back when I was 25, I was 4 years out of college, living in a one bedroom rented condo in a soon to be gentrified neighborhood. In 1963, when Giorgetto Giugiaro was 25, he was working at the design house of Bertone in Torino, and created his first major design, the Alfa Romeo Sprint GT/GTV. […]
The original Osso di Seppia (bone of cuttlefish) Spider (105/115 series) was designed by Pininfarina and produced by Alfa Romeo from 1966 to 1969. The first generation (Series 1) is also known as the boat tail or round tail to differentiate it from the later Kamm back (Series 2), duck tail (Series 3) and smooth […]
The Alfa Romeo 1750 Berlina (which means sedan in Italian) is the square shouldered sister to the gorgeous GTV; less attractive but more useful. Fancy yourself a vintage Alfa, but you need a set of shoulders that are more accustomed to pushing a plow than wearing a sundress, the Berlina is your choice. Find this […]
There is an old adage that says the customer is always right…but you as readers of this site aren’t so much customers as unwitting clickers of advertisements that gives us a nickle from some third party website that is really just another website looking to get you to click on their ads..for which they get […]