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.
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
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.
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.
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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ReplyDeleteAlfaholics 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.
ReplyDeleteLooks like a 1955 1900C SS (Competion Super Sprint)
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Buy two.
ReplyDeleteHad a buddy in the 70s who was into Sunbeam Alpines. He needed three of them to keep one on the road.
DeleteNever 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.
ReplyDeleteAnybody 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.
ReplyDeleteJ.C. Whitney!
ReplyDeleteThank you.
DeleteWhy bother?
ReplyDeleteOnce it breaks, it's never running again anyways.