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Hey Mark, that's a white car right?
Autodelta was the factory racing department of Alfa Romeo, and it was established in the late fifties I think - Ing. Carlo Chiti, engineer / extraoridinaire was at the helm. The lion's share of Autodelta's work went into the GTA and GTAm, the lighweight race versions of Alfa's Bertone Coupes.
The white 1750 Serie 2 that you're looking at may benefit from having a host of special parts that were developed and homologated in period, and used in racing applications. You should get the vendor to list what the parts/improvements are, it could make a suitably interesting post (!) and will serve to help you make the right purchace.
The man to talk to on this panel in my opinion is Jim Neill (papajam), I believe his advice is invaluable if you run a 1750, as he knows them inside out.
If that car has got genuine Autodelta mods, and the body is in very good nick, I think $8K is a steal.
When you see that there's a serie 2 car on the Alfaholics web site for sale at GBP16000, you get the feeling that you should snap up all the cars left for sale in Australia and stash them.
Look forward to hearing more.
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