Realistically, it makes more sense to join forces with the lesser marques.
I am ensconed in the East Bay for now and won't be there, but if an Alfa contingent makes at least occasional appearances at the "Euro Meet" that is a good thing. Who knows, some of those guys might "wake up and smell the coffee."
Keith, did you sell the MG yet? I was dead serious about my advice to you. You are looking for something: you didn't find it in the series 4. It ain't there in the MG. I believe that only a real series one Spider, a really cherry one, will be "it" for you. Why fight it?
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Randy Lee
"Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life." - Ayn Rand
(That's why she drove an Alfa and then bought a Ferrari
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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"