Alfa 2000 Touring long restoration

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Found some nose pictures from a car meet in Germany last year...

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and some more.

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Hope this helps. Let me know if you need any additional photo's.
Mark

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BTW, note the USA vs European hood scoops in the pictures above.

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Originally Posted by Mikes4C1300 Maybe these crops of a local Atlanta car will help. Email me if you want the whole picture. Mike Hollinger Atlanta

[Mikes4C1300]

Yes, it is. It's just gorgeous. Every one in the club wishes he'd show it more.

Mike

[franco-veloce]

this is my front

rgds Franco

[gxg95]

Charles:

I don't know if this will help, but I put my grill against a straight-edge and measured the sag at the middle - it measures about 8.5 millimeters. BUT - when I mount the grill I know if flexes several more millimeters as the mounting screw pulls it against the sheet metal. Good luck.

George

[charles a zahra]

Dear All,

your response, kindness and cooperation is impressive.

I owe you alot.

i am sure that these will help alot.

thanks

Charles

[franco-veloce]

see picture

RGDS Franco

[twoliterlover]

Good body work, Franco. Did you actually do this body work yourself? Great, great (or congratulations to the chef). I notice you are still missing some of the the inner anchor pipes for the left front bumper. These front bumpers sure are a joke, aren't they! I suspect a 2mph crash test would show they stop nothing. But I think your photo is exactly what the Malta panel beater was hoping to get (along with the photo of the grill from the side). The poor guy will just have to put all his pieces together in some guestimated shape and then hammer on it and bend it to be flowing and pleasant. I have been forced to do that a couple times myself. There are NO templates, no dimensional drawings. It does help, however, to have a couple other sitting around to look at closely. It helps even more when one of them has never been crunched before (one I refuse to take parts from). Hard to get them fixed without whole fenders or noses to graft. The panel beater in Malta seems to have started only with crumpled disaster. And his results are super good. But we can see his problems.

So -- Suggestions for all the fellow two liter lovers on the the BB. The fellow in Spain who fixed his (the one with the installed 2300 RIO engine), and then later ran in the Retro Millia in Italy, remember? He needed to replace only the drivers side front fender and nose. I seem to recall he bought a nose from someone in Europe to do it. So one or the other -- he or the provider -- has a RIGHT fender to send to Malta. Europe is certainly closer than Seattle. So BBers, let's try to put these two together. A piece of fender and nose with part of the curve correct will provide easier and better results than even a wild eyeball guess. The panel beater in Malta is good, but he must be sweating bullets. Jay

[schaapm]

About the grille: In my opinion the giulietta sprint, second series, has the same grille. Maybe you know someone with a giulietta sprint and you can check with him....

[78alfadriver]

Charles, do you ever visit the VeloceToday.com web site? They have a great article in their latest newsletter about October's Grand Prix De Malte race. Hope you were able to attend it - looks like it was a fun event. Best of luck in your restoration effort.

[charles a zahra]

Yes, i have read Velocetoday as the writer of the article, David Arrigo, referred me to it.

I am not sure if you would like to hear this, but as always, people that write such articles, although written in an excellent manner, never give the picture as it is. The fact is that I was the focal point of the activity, laising between the actual french organiser, GTO and the authorities, ranging from the Police, Road Ministry and authority, Tourism Ministry and authority, Local Councils, Office of the Prime Minister and many others. The actual event was fantastic i understand but being the person that i am, i worry too much, i did not enjoy any of it and am still preoccupied with certain issues to the very day. I think it would be enough to say that whilst the writer was getting some sleep after some heavy drinking and so was the organiser, i together with the few helpers that i had, was not only supervising but actually placing the tyres all through the night, from midnight to 6.00 am. Although the end result was a major success, there are various issues that must be done better next year if we want a repeat, which i sincerely hope but i will try to be more of a spectator as the writer was than the 'factotum' of the event. Maybe, i will manage to enjoy the event, as i did not this year.

The satisfaction that i got off this event was that I managed to make it happen (and a lot of people have shown appreciation to this), the crowds (some 30,000 people) enjoyed it, the participants, majority foreigners enjoyed the whole week of events, the authorities appreciated the event.

You will not find me in any interview except in one in Maltese (PAQPAQ Version 2 search grand prix de malte) as i did not want to give any interviews during the actual event as i was not in a state to be seen. It would be interesting to have a look at the website Grand Prix de Malte : un évènement Giovannoni Thierry Organisation . I hope that if we do have next year's event on, maybe some of you would join.

I apologise if i was dull in my reply, but this velocetoday.com article got me somewhat annoyed and i understand there will be more like it. There was something better in a french magazine 'La vie de l'auto' on the 15th of November.

thanks

Charles

[charles a zahra]

dear Franco and all,