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Re:ES30 Pricing and availability
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> alfa-digest Thursday, July 25 2002 Volume 08 :
> Number 953
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>
>
> Forum for Discussion of Alfa Romeos, etc.
> Richard Welty <[email protected]>
> Digest Coordinator
>
> Contents:
>
> Monster Zagato
> AR 1090, and Giulietta Nuova
> recurrent hood dent
> Sud
> SZ (ES30) importing and CA smog thingy
> RE: recurrent hood dent
> Lumpy idle when cold
> 1978 Alfetta/Sprinit Veloce For Sale
> Re: alfa-digest V8 #950
> NYC Parking woes
> Re: SZ (ES30) importing and CA smog thingy
> Vibration While Braking
> RE: AR 1090, and Giulietta Nuova
> ES30 Pricing and availability
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> Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 16:47:40 -0700
> From: Kit Redwine <[email protected]>
> Subject: Monster Zagato
>
> All this talk led me to Eduard van de Beek's nice ES-30 page:
> http://home.planet.nl/~evdbeek/monster.html
>
> Which leads me to my next question. Are the ES-30 alloys still
> available
> and if so, would they fit a GTV6?
>
>
>
> thanks,
>
> Kit
> Seattle
> '86 GTV6
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 21:25:07 -0400
> From: "John Hertzman" <[email protected]>
> Subject: AR 1090, and Giulietta Nuova
>
> Henrik Johansen took the bait and asked "BTW what is a tipo AR 1090,
> transaxle, wrong wheel drive? The only late fifties - early sixties
> Alfa I
> know of is a tipo 103 prototype with a transversely mounted 898 cc
> engine. 2
> cars and 3 engines were made."
>
> It is essentially identical to a Renault Dauphine, except built by
> Alfa Romeo
> at Portello, badged as an Alfa Romeo, and sold and serviced by Alfa
> Romeo
> dealers. There were other detail differences- 12 v instead of 6v,
> hound's-tooth check upholstery fabric from the Giulietta T.I., etc.
> There was
> also a more deluxe version called the Ondine.
>
> The front engined front wheel drive R4, a more spartan-looking
> econobox, was
> also built under the same arrangement but not actually badged as an
> Alfa
> Romeo.
>
> A fairly large number were built - 112,311 over five years, compared
> to 21,152
> 1900s over seven years, or 174,713 Giuliettas over seven years (of
> which about
> 17,000 were Spiders).
>
> Alfa purists may question whether it was a "real" Alfa Romeo (as some
> did
> later over other models). Fusi does not list it at all, but d'Amico &
> Tabucchi
> do list it as an Alfa Romeo production car.
>
> On the Giulietta Nuova, Henrick's statement that "Most, if not all,
> bodypanels
> are a straight fit. The interior is a straight fit, except for one
> differently
> placed bolt in the dashboard" is, I think, a considerable
> overstatement. The
> production number he gives, 379,691 is a tad higher than d'Amico &
> Tabucchi
> (348,145) but both are appreciably higher than the 316,699 of the
> 75/Milano in
> all versions.
>
>
>
> John H.
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 18:09:56 -0700
> From: "Timothy Leigh Rodgers" <[email protected]>
> Subject: recurrent hood dent
>
> My 1992 Spider is quite low (stock car) and I have to go at a creep
> over any
> bump, dip, or driveway. I couple of times I've inadvertently hit a
> dip hard
> enough that the engine has come up and dented the underside of the
> hood.
> Once I cracked the pan (in spite of a pan guard). I had the hood
> flattened
> and repainted-and damn! It happened again (the hood dent, not the
> cracked
> pan.) I'm now getting the hood fixed and repainted again, and would
> like to
> prevent this from happening again in the future. These dips/ bumps
> that have
> caused this trouble and no big deal for my wife's Jaguar or my Giulia
> 1300
> Super. Have others had this problem with their spiders? Is this
> unique to
> series four spiders, or is it all of them?
> I've had my motor mounts checked and they seem OK. (the car only has
> 35,000
> mi on it.) Would new shocks help? Should I get stiffer springs?
> Any
> advice would be appreciated.
>
> Timothy
> '71 Alfa Romeo Giulia 1300 Super
> '78 Alfa Romeo F-12 Diesel Van
> '92 Alfa Romeo Spider Veloce
> '81 Harley Wide Glide
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 21:16:36 EDT
> From: [email protected]
> Subject: Sud
>
> Zamani, the Sud you are referring to with the spare heads is on ebay
> right
> now!
>
> Erik Wood
>
>
> Zamani writes: "I would love to get a 2-door sud Ti with a 1.7 16V
> engine in
> it!
> There's a series 1 sud 1.2 on ebay which is located in Toronto. Has
> spare racing heads with twin carbs as well."
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 18:52:48 -0700
> From: alfacybersite <[email protected]>
> Subject: SZ (ES30) importing and CA smog thingy
>
> Okay, you're here mostly under false pretenses. True, should the
> little
> man in red with horns cut me a deal, you'd all be 'going south' when
> the
> bearded guy with the scythe shows up and I'd be driving a
> beeyoutafull
> (don't care what all those pundits say) low mileage '89 SZ.
>
> That said, anyone in the CA region ever work out a simple
> mathematical
> formula how one can go from, "My car is a '75 Alfetta GT." To - "I
> can
> quit smogging it in the year - -"?
>
> My simple but probably inaccurate calculation is as follows: 1973
> (current cut-off date for smogging in CA) + 25 + 5 (waiting period
> for
> us after '73 peons) = 2003. If this means '74's are exempt in 2003,
> and
> I reregister my car from a '76 to a '75 which I should be able to do
> -
>
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