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Old 03-12-2006, 12:00 PM
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Originally Posted by GTVke
Hugense also mensiones that there was an indipendent rear suspension together with Lockheed brakes been developed and that it replaced the tradional Dion and Montreal(?) brakes in ' 76 .
I think Autodelta used the Lockheed brake system that they developed and used on the early Alfetta GT rally cars and later returns on the GR.A GTV6 .
When I saw one of the 3000 V8 Alfetta at an Alfa Registro Italiano event in '95 at Mugello it seemed to have Lockheeds front & rear similar to the racing GTV6's and the Giulietta turbodelta. I remember it having a DeDion set-up rather than independent or A-arm rear suspension.

The Lockheed set-up and a modified DeDion set-up, as noted above were also used on the GTV6 for racing (Also, DeDion is sometimes referred to by people as being an independent set-up to differentiate it from a live axle) The special De Dion set-up was referred in the GTV6 Autodelta parts catalogue at the time as being made out of Ergal - a titanium/aluminum/nickel alloy that is light and has high strength.
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