Re: New Alfas

[Ted Spradley <tsprad@domain.elided>]

On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 15:20:00 +0000
owner-alfa-digest@domain.elided (alfa-digest) [actually GModelle@domain.elided]
wrote:

> To satisfy the visceral aesthetics of the old alfas, somebody should
> be putting together a kit car using all the old drivetrains that are
> still viable, once their bodies have gone away. Imagine a tubulare
> spider, 1300 lbs, fiberglass body with a 150 horse two liter.

You know, that's something I've thought about, too.  The old engines are
"infinitely rebuildable", the gearboxes and live axles are rugged and
rebuildable, even the steering and suspension are repairable.  It would
be wonderful if there were a source for replacements for the one major
part that just rusts away.  If somebody could take a rusty old spider,
take it all apart, and make careful measurements of all the suspension,
steering, and motor attachment points, and create a digital 3-D model of
that in AutoCAD.  From that it should be fairly easy to build jigs to
fabricate a steel tube frame that all the original spider mechanicals
would just bolt onto.  Then somebody else needs to construct molds for
making pretty little bodies, maybe something like an early '50s
SIATA....

Pardon me, I must have been daydreaming again.
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