Hi All I'm back in Wellington after 6 weeks and over 8000 kilometres on the road in a Toyota tin can, that goes under the glorified title of "passenger van", with students from places ranging from Alaska to Indiana. Yesterday I had time to look at the Spider that I reported dead some weeks/months ago and took the easy option - replaced the electronic unit (Marelli box) with the one out of my Green GT Veloce and --- we have lift off! Spider is once more alive and well. The next step is to take for its 6-monthly "warrant of fitness" check, the ridiculous procedure that all cars go through in New Zealand and without which a car cannot be re-licensed or driven illegally. Great :-(
The GTV has been sent to a body shop (Panelbeaters in Kiwispeak) for restoration that will include replacing all of the leather interior. This seemed the ideal time to do it because I leave for Perugia, Italy, on the 27th. So if you see an "unsubscribe" command it will be to prevent my inbox overloading and definitely not because I've lost interest. Ciao tutti. Les Singh 1964 Giulia Sprint GT (in bits) 1969 GTA 1300 Jr (in storage) 1971 1750 GT Veloce 1972 2000 GT Veloce 1972 2000 Spider Veloce 1974 2000 GT Veloce (in restoration) 1998 Alfa 156 1.8 -- to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected]
