brakes, bumps, Mille Miglia

[Pottree@domain.elided]

Someone was talking about squeaking brakes on a Spider, suspecting the 
Master.  I think the squeaks come from vibrations in the calipers, from a 
scored or deformed disk, or something.  Scott mentions the good that is 
supped to stop the vibration but most people I know feel that even if this 
stuff works it will wash off or dry out or something in a short time and 
you'll be back to squeaking.  I don't see how the MC could the cause.  The 
main question: how does the car stop?  Do the brakes work properly but just 
squeak, or is there a problem stopping?  Where are you on the continuum from 
minor annoyance to impending death?

Someone else (sorry I didn't get the name) has a new Spider that seems to 
"bump" a few times when accelerating off the dime.  It's new to him, I think 
about 15 years old, w/ 94k+ miles.  Knowing nothing else and with the recent 
traffic here in mind: what shape are the motor mounts in?

This month's Smithsonian magazine has a fair article on the Mille Miglia, 
with only a passing tip o'the bowler to Alfa.  Whazzup wid dat?

A very exciting tour in search of the wildflowers run yesterday by brave 
souls of AROSC plus a visitor from MD, Suhas, one of our correspondents here, 
in a new* Milano.

Charlie
LA, CA, USA

*for our international readers or those who have just walked in: new in the 
USA means recently bought, not recently made.  We are a backward third world 
republic, Alfa-wise.  I think that is because even our neighbors to the North 
think we are not sufficiently sophisticated.
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