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Originally Posted by OldAlfaGuy Ken, 1) I am certain that once SCCA dropped the 1600 GTA from B Sedan, it was never reinstated. However, it was always allowed in Trans Am. I can't remember when it was outlawed. At Paul Spruell's website, there is a copy of the January, 1970 issue of The Alfa Owner providing details of the 1969 Runoffs. (That is the year Paul won the President's Cup for his win in G Production.) That year (1969), GTA Jr's took 1st, 3rd and 4th in C Sedan (A Mini took 2nd). There were no Alfa's listed in B Sedan results, so that tells me that the 1600 GTA was dropped from B Sedan by 1969. The thing to do is locate the results of the 1968 Runoffs and see if GTA's were listed in the results. That will tell you which year it was dropped from B Sedan ('68 or '69). 2) As far as Bruce Perry's GTA Jr's are concerned, I can provide details on them. I owned one of them. He bought a 1600 GTA street car off the showroom floor at Algar Enterprises in Pennsylvania. First, he did Solo 2 (autocross), then Solo 1, then Regional racing and then finally National racing in the car. As he progressed up the competition ladder, he added the factory competition pieces one part at a time, until it finally had pretty much all of the goodies (sliding block, etc). After rolling the car (either Nelson Ledges or Watkins Glen, I forget), he bought one of the two Amman/Rutherford GTA Jr's and listed his old car for sale in The Alfa Owner. I bought it from him. This was in '77 or '78, I'd say. While I was at his shop in Bradford, PA to pick up the car, he showed me his new toy, the Amman/Rutherford car. It was trick. They had had Lee Dykstra go through the suspension, and it was all different stuff from the Autodelta setup. I remember Bruce telling me that his new car handled totally different from (and better than) his old car. Bruce is/was a neat guy. After retiring from teaching, he and his wife would go to vintage races selling old car magazines. I would always see him each year at the Fall Festival at Limerock. I also remember it took him forever to sell that Amman/Rutherford car. I don't think he wanted too much. The market just wasn't hot like it is these days. And he just didn't want to give it away. 3) Regarding your car, right now I can't be much help. There was a guy back in the '70's who did the neatest posters of race cars (Paul Oxman). He did one of the Bobcor cars together (at Road Atlanta, I seem to remember, coming out of turn 5). They were both yellow, but neither car had the plastic GTAm-type fenders. I left that poster on the wall in the garage of a house I sold and moved out of. Man, I wish I had that poster today. When I get time, I will look through old race programs and pictures I took at races to see if I can find your car. Didn't John Murphy have a yellow wide-fendered GTA/GTA Jr? I seem to remember him racing the car at the Walter Middy Challenge at Road Atlanta in the late '80's. Man, trying to recall all of this stuff from 20-30 years ago is really taxing my brain! OldAlfaGuy