Friday, August 2, 2024

Cool, but where would you get parts?

 


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  1. As the owner of a classic Alfa Romeo I would recommend Alfaholics in the UK. They can source almost everything mechanical or electrical

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  2. The internet,+$$$$$$$'s, and time, is kinda your friend in that regard.

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  3. Alfaholics for mechanical and electrical parts. If you need a fender then you send it to a shop full of craftsmen who will start with a flat sheet of aluminium that they will hand beat into shape on a wooden buck. Expect to wait for months, possibly years for a slot at such a shop and a 5 or 6 digit repair bill.
    Looks like a 1955 1900C SS (Competion Super Sprint)
    Al_in_Ottawa

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    1. Had a buddy in the 70s who was into Sunbeam Alpines. He needed three of them to keep one on the road.

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  5. Never had a classic, though some of them might qualify these days, but I had five back in the sixties and drove the last one, a '71 1750 Spyder into a Maverick in '76. How humiliating is that? I still get chill bumps when I see that grille. Even on the new ones which are not really ALFA's at all.

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  6. Anybody remember the name of the mail order auto parts catalog where you could get just about anything? I got a lot of parts for my jeep from them. First thing I bought were gapless spark plugs because at 18 I thought that was the neatest invention ever.

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  7. Why bother?
    Once it breaks, it's never running again anyways.

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