01-31-2008, 09:16 AM
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Location: Bussum, The Netherlands
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2 or 3 shoe front brakes
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Originally Posted by mdivasc
My '61 Giulietta SS has two brake shoes on the front.
I believe the last of the giuliettas had 3 right before the discs were put on the Giulias.
and no you can't have my 00120 engine, sorry.......
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I had a look in a couple of books on my bookshelf to find out about the 2 or 3 shoes front brakes question. These are the books I checked:
'Alfa Romeo Zagato SZ - TZ' by Marcello Minerbi, Mille Miglia Editrice 1985
It mentions that the SZ cars had two shoe front brakes early on, later three shoe and then disc brakes. No mentioning of the Sprint Speciale as far as I can check.
'Alfa Romeo Giulietta' by Angelo Tito Anselmi, Libreria dell' Automobile 1985.
No clue as to 2 and 3 shoe frontbrakes.
'Giulietta da Corsa'/'The Racing Giulietta's 1956-1963' by Donald Hughes e.a., Giorgio Nada Editore 1990 / Haynes 1989.
Chapter five covers the Sprint Speciale prototypes, low nose and later models but I didn't find spec's on different brakes.
'Alfa Romeo Giulietta' by Evan Wilson, Osprey Publishing 1983.
Chapter three covers the Sprint Speciale amongst others. No mentioning of spec's concerning the brakes.
Glenn's Alfa Romeo Workshop Manual by Harold T. Glenn, Autopress 1965
On page 119 and 121 this book mentions that early Giulia 1600, Giulia TI, Giulia Sprint and Spider models had 3 shoes front brakes and changed to dunlop disc brakes in 1964.
Last but not least:
'Alfa Romeo, All cars from 1910' by Luigi Fusi, Emmeti Grafica Editrice 1978.
It mentions that the SZ and Giulietta SS had 3 shoe front brakes.
That's what I can find. We will definitely need a workshop manual and/or parts book to figure out what was going on or a specialist!
Attached the picture of a lownose Giulietta Sprint Speciale.
Ciao, Olaf
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Zagato_Olaf (Olaf Roeten)
Register Junior Zagato Holland, Part of www.alfaclub.nl
1977 Giulia Nuova Super 1600 - the first, still here and needs a lot of work
1980 Sud 5M - the second and scrapped
1974 GT 1300 Junior Bertone - the third and still here
1972 GT 1300 Junior Zagato - tho fourth and still here
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