Thread: Pictures Of Alfetta's
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Old 05-23-2006, 12:42 AM
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Not exactly...
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Originally Posted by GoldCloverLeaf
Wow Randy... that fetta is MINT!

Was it a one owner - lady driver for the last 30 years kinda deal?

This reminds me, i havent posted any pics of my fetta on here yet... will do that when i get home
The pictures are beautiful, aren't they. The reality is that the PPO, (previous previous owner) really gussied up a somewhat down at the heels Sedan. The PO drove her a little, and then just let her sit. The paint job is probably a home grown effort - very nicely masked, but masked none-the-less and with runs. There is in fact some almost completely hidden rust right where you'd expect: at the base of the driver's A-pillar under the windshield and the base of the passenger's C-pillar under the rear windscreen. The interior is petty good except for the missing A/C stuff, a somewhat slap-dash audio install, and a driver's door panel that needs a little TLC.

Still, for what I paid, I really cannot complain. Once I get the twinspark and a proper LSD transaxle in her, (and maybe A/C), I am going to drive her for a while. Then we'll see. I know that I will want to re-do the suspension and brakes. Then for the icing: really what she, and all the other Alfetta Sedans still in one piece deserve is a bare metal paint job with rust preventive of some description, followed by a completely custom made, although true to the spirit of the original, interior re-do. These cars are one of the most sophisticated small sedans ever made. At the time, Alfa was already too far behind the eight-ball of poor market perception to do justice to their genius vision the Alfetta represents. I am going to try to right that wrong.

I wonder if anybody knows who the Engineer(s) were behind the Alfetta?
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Randy's Italian Lot:
1978 Sport Sedan "Cecilia" A rustfree Alfetta
1990 Mondial T Cabrio - OH MY GOD! Metallic Nirvana
1979 Sport Sedan Alfamatic For sale... "soon"
(1 or 2 more Sport Sedan parts cars.)

Ex:
79 Spt Sdn. "Griswold" and never-driven '74 Spider sold to Harry Riley
74 Spider "Isabel" traded for "Cecilia"
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