Re: how many GTV6's still in use?

[George Graves <gmgraves@domain.elided>]

Well, Dennis, while I don't blame you from putting a Mini Cooper on 
your short list, I do have to disagree about the availability of really 
GOOD GTV-6's.  I have seen MANY since I bought mine. Cars that were 
lovingly cared-for and which get sold for a number of reasons not 
connected to the car's condition. Really good ones seem to sell for 
from somewhere around US$4500 for a good dead-stock one to around 
US$7500 for one tricked-out with suspension goodies, engine 
modifications, high-end paint jobs and the like. But the price doesn't 
always track that guide. You can find them all over the place, 
price-wise. A friend and I  looked at one in San Francisco about 6 
months ago that was, for all practical purposes, a brand  new car. The 
owner had spent a fortune on it, getting all of the mechanical and 
suspension stuff sorted out. He had dropped a 12-valve 3-liter in it 
and it was ported and relieved, had the transaxel totally rebuilt, had 
a $5000 paint job (a deep red), and totally new tan leather upholstery 
and black carpeting. he was asking $5500 and was selling it because his 
growing family needed the money. One could tell that he was very 
reluctant to give it up. The only reason my friend didn't buy it was 
because it was an '83 and he wants an '86. I'd have bought it myself if 
I hadn't already spent a lot on the one I already own. Anyway, if you 
look around, you can find real fine GTV-6's, They flourish because 
parts are abundant and relatively inexpensive compared to many exotic 
(and some not so exotic) cars.

George Graves
'86 GTV-6.

On Monday, October 28, 2002, at 01:15  PM, alfa-digest wrote:


> Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 08:52:55 -0800
> From: dlou <dlou@domain.elided>
> Subject: Re: how many GTV6's still in use?
>
> Except for a brief period where I had a 2 mile commute, the GTV6 has 
> been my
> daily ride for the past 8 years.  The wife drives something much newer 
> and
> not from Italy (long story).  We also have an old Nissan 4wd pickup 
> that gets
> used to haul stuff once every several weeks, but it's so tired that I 
> don't
> know if it'll last much longer.
>
> If a tree fell on my Alfa, I don't think I'd replace it with another,
> though.  It took me me long enough to find a decent one way back when.
> I'd imagine attrition would make it that much harder for me to find
> a replacement V6 Alfa before I get sick of taking the bus (public 
> transit
> takes 1.25hrs to get to work; driving myself takes 12 mins).  Except 
> for the
> Lotus Super Seven, open top cars just aren't my thing so a Spider would
> be out of the question.
>
> Tying back to a much older thread, I think that's why some people own
> multiple copies of orphan cars.  In case one gets badly damaged, they
> don't have to resort to driving a non-orphan brand.
>
> Tying back to a not-quite-as-old thread, if a tree fell on my Alfa,
> I think the Mini Cooper S would be on my test-drive list.
>
> - -Dennis
> Sunnyvale, CA
> '85 GTV6
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