On Apr 17, 2005, at 10:27 AM, Keith Whaley wrote:
A custom-built Alfa Romeo Spider is my other car ... ;-) http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/vehicles/fs-3468.htm
Lovely machine!
My Alfa spyder was a Guiletta and was a '58! Absolutely loved that car! If only they made one today...
I'll have to scan that one and make the image available...
Thank you.
1300 Guilietta Spider ... One of my buddies had one he bought while finishing his college degree. It got to the point where it needed too much work to be roadable and he didn't have the money at that time, so he rented a storage garage for it. The garage had a fire a few years later. Ed pulled the burned, scarred Guilietta out of the garage's wreckage, and decided that it didn't deserve to die. Luckily, most of the fire damage was at the other end of the garage.
He took it completely apart and started from there. Seven years' work later, he finished restoring the most beautiful Guilietta Spider I've ever driven. Truly one of the great sports cars of the 1950s, years ahead of anything else I've owned or driven from the '50s and '60s in terms of handling, brakes and suspension in the lightweight four-cylinder class, and still a stunning looker today. I'd love to see photos of yours.
Godfrey
