South African built Alfas

[mvcoller]

I raced the car in the mid to late 80s.

The firewall started rusting quite badly, so much so that the streering rack that bolts to the firewall started moving too much and affected safety. The car started life as a red Sud 1300 Ti 4 door.

I parked it on a plot of a friend of Philip Gairns - this was Philip's private old Alfa graveyard. It was Somewhere near Wonderboom airport, north of Pretoria About two years later, a veld fire destroyed all the cars (about 20 old Alfas). Snif, snif, snif.

I built another one, (a Zagato yellow 1200 Sud L) but it was never really successful. I kept on running bearings, so I gave up and built my brown Berlina to race in Historics. I sold the yellow Sud to some guy in the south of Jhb who rebuilt lawnmowers, but I never saw him racing it.

Then, about 3 years later, I saw it at Zwartkops one day. It had a new owner (from Pretoria), and the car was repainted white. It was not very professionally prepared and did not make it to the end of the first race. It was running at the rear of the field.

You must pop around after work one day... I am at 8 Northumberland.

Malcolm

[Gilbertr14]

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Originally Posted by toydc Hi and Happy 2007 to all. As for the GTV6 2.5, 129 were sold in 1982, 228 in 1983, 55 in 1984 and 65 in 1985. I believe Alfa Romeo also assembled cars in Spain and Ireland. Toy

[zakanaka2000]

No chassis numbers were stamped on the rhodesian assembled alfa"s.... Only ENGINE local numbers were quoted. Original chassis number were welded over.
See the pics on the "rhodesian assembled" cars thread

The reason was to escape the tracing of the origin of thoses CKD's importend while under sanctions of UN.

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Originally Posted by ian As you say it is debatable what constitutes a proper production facility. I'd like to know more about the Malaysian factory, but I wonder wether they produced as much as 80% local content or pressed their own chassis and body panels. Did they have their own chassis numbers? As a matter of interest, for some reason, the Rhodesian models had their Italian chassis numbers removed and new ones stamped. Ian