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.
I had a '69. I have only a couple of complaints: the driving position is arms straight out. Italians must be built like chimps, long arms short legs. And, the mechanical fuel injection required high pressure and the electric motor for the fuel pump had to be disassembled every 20k to dump out the carbon dust from the brushes. The fuel pressure light would come on and you'd limp home. I was in NJ and it was starting to rust in its second year. Like every alfa I had, it always needed something done but never let me down.
I knew a guy in Uranium City, Sask. who had one back in the mid to late '70s. It was a bit surreal when I first saw that car. I flew in on the Eldorado DC4 and there's the guy I'm supposed to meet driving a GTV! There's 11 miles of paved road between Uranium City and Eldorado and he knew every inch of them. Steve_in_Ottawa
Alfa Romeo GTV 1750/2000. "The most fun you can have while wearing clothes".
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One or two of those would be an excellent stable.
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I've had that wish about hot chicks and neither have happened.
I had a '69. I have only a couple of complaints: the driving position is arms straight out. Italians must be built like chimps, long arms short legs. And, the mechanical fuel injection required high pressure and the electric motor for the fuel pump had to be disassembled every 20k to dump out the carbon dust from the brushes. The fuel pressure light would come on and you'd limp home. I was in NJ and it was starting to rust in its second year. Like every alfa I had, it always needed something done but never let me down.
ReplyDeleteI knew a guy in Uranium City, Sask. who had one back in the mid to late '70s. It was a bit surreal when I first saw that car. I flew in on the Eldorado DC4 and there's the guy I'm supposed to meet driving a GTV! There's 11 miles of paved road between Uranium City and Eldorado and he knew every inch of them. Steve_in_Ottawa
ReplyDeleteBest looking car ever.
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