And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
There are specialists in the UK that focus on fixing one car models flaws and providing improved parts built using 21st century technology. A colleague of mine bought a new engine wiring harness for his '86 Jag XJS and it has been trouble free for 11 years or so. For classic Alfa Romeos alfaholics.com has what you need. Al_in_Ottawa
The Fiats of the 70's gave all Italian cars a bad name for reliability. Alfas are very mechanically reliable and the electrics are good as well. The difference between Fiat and Alfa is that Fiat made their own parts and as cheaply as possible. Alfa bought a lot of theirs - brakes for example are the same as Porsche of the era; the distributors are usually Bosch. When they're Italian Marelli makes good components. Alfas had one flaw - they used a very sophisticate mechanical fuel injection system and did not give US mechanics enough information to work on it. Sadly, the system is very reliable if you keep your damn hands off it... but Americans were so used to modifying Detroit cars, they were sure they could adjust it for more performance...and screwed it up.
Now, rust...rust and Alfa Romeo - there's no denying THAT - but mechanically the cars were excellent.
When I went to Italy during the early 1970's, it seemed like there was a repair shop on every other block. A lot of the Italian vehicles at the time were so touchy with their tuning that it was almost a bi-weekly trip to the mechanics for many of them.
Is there an Italian car that does?
ReplyDeleteThere are specialists in the UK that focus on fixing one car models flaws and providing improved parts built using 21st century technology. A colleague of mine bought a new engine wiring harness for his '86 Jag XJS and it has been trouble free for 11 years or so. For classic Alfa Romeos alfaholics.com has what you need.
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My '88 Spider Veloce was very reliable for the 10 years I owned it.
ReplyDeleteIs this picture of it just leaving the repair shop or going back to it?
ReplyDeleteI had a 67, just like that...it was care free...no problems
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The Fiats of the 70's gave all Italian cars a bad name for reliability. Alfas are very mechanically reliable and the electrics are good as well. The difference between Fiat and Alfa is that Fiat made their own parts and as cheaply as possible. Alfa bought a lot of theirs - brakes for example are the same as Porsche of the era; the distributors are usually Bosch. When they're Italian Marelli makes good components. Alfas had one flaw - they used a very sophisticate mechanical fuel injection system and did not give US mechanics enough information to work on it. Sadly, the system is very reliable if you keep your damn hands off it... but Americans were so used to modifying Detroit cars, they were sure they could adjust it for more performance...and screwed it up.
ReplyDeleteNow, rust...rust and Alfa Romeo - there's no denying THAT - but mechanically the cars were excellent.
When I went to Italy during the early 1970's, it seemed like there was a repair shop on every other block. A lot of the Italian vehicles at the time were so touchy with their tuning that it was almost a bi-weekly trip to the mechanics for many of them.
ReplyDeletein my experience they actually run fine, its the rust thats the killer, but that was on British roads with tons of salt on em.
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