hey will,give us a link to that pdf.cowfy --- On Mon, 2/1/10, Will Owen <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Will Owen <[email protected]> Subject: [alfa] DeDion stuff: corrections and retractions To: "alfa" <[email protected]> Date: Monday, February 1, 2010, 2:37 PM Blame it on age, blame it on a chronically creative memory, but about half what I said about that earlier Alfa in the February '61 Sports Car Graphic was incorrect. The article was written by Karl Ludvigsen (as about half the magazine was!), not Griff Borgeson, and the car was one of several prototype bodies Pininfarina built on a so-called "Disco Volante" 3.5 liter chassis. That did have the DeDion setup that Ricart introduced into the Alfa canon, but the frame was a massive tubular structure much more like a '60s TVR than the Lotus Elan. I have re-scanned the entire article and made a relatively low-res PDF of only about 4.5 Mb, so anyone who wants to see that is welcome to it. Joe's suggestion of using the Alfa Sei assembly, as I have told him, is one that John Hertzman and I were bandying back and forth about ten years ago, a fact which I had forgotten. As all those emails were three or four Mac OS versions and two computers ago for me, none have survived of course, but it seems to me that John knew or knew of someone who had a Sei. Or maybe just was thinking about it, hard to tell. Fred, would be my guess... what a drag it is getting old...! Will Owen -- to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected] -- to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected]
