In the early 1900’s before the days of mega sponsorships from international corporations, competitors worked from a standardized a list of racing colors that denoted the nation of the competing car. Italy adopted it’s famous Red or Rosso, after a red Italia won the 1907 Paris to Peking race. Ever since, owners of used Italian […]
The great Peter Egan once wrote a Side Glances column about how he and some friends used beer & pizza as a common measuring unit. Twenty years ago, a friend and I used Alfa Romeo Alfettas as our common measuring unit. We established that at that time, an Alfetta had the US Dollar equivalent of […]
A rising tide lifts all boats. I guess that even applies to the previously cheap 116 series Alfa Romeos. It used to be that around 6K would buy you a nice, driver quality Bertone GTV like the one featured last week, and a grand or two would buy you an Alfetta. Now you can barely […]
The Alfa Romeo Type 116 Coupe was technically known as the Alfetta GT, but a 6-cylinder version introduced in 1981 was called the GTV6…and that name stuck, at least with the coupe body style. If you want a classic car from the 80s that has the balance of Baryshnikov and a baritone howling voice –go […]
The Alfa Romeo Alfetta GT/GTV is often simply called the GTV6 because later versions were powered by a front mounted V6, but the early GT/GTV examples used inline-4 power borrowed from the original tipo 105/115 GTV. Owners of these cars will heap praises on the communicative chassis while admitting that build quality wasn’t exactly perfect. […]
The Alfa Romeo Alfetta coupe was a front engine rear-transaxle equipped fastback built in Milan from 1972-1987. The Alfetta replaced the successful and gorgeous GTV, big shoes to fill for the Giorgetto Giugiaro designed coupe. The Alfetta will never be as collectible and cool as its Giulietta predecessor, but today’s values are depressed and the […]