Mystery Alfa

[TorW]

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Originally Posted by PSk Gosh, some extremely hash comments.

[argtv6]

Hi Ben,
the owner's name is Jean Paul Pisani. Great to hear from a Maltese Alfista down under! Ma tantx fadal fejn issuq San Giljan! Traffiku, wardens u sleeping policemen biss. Dak kien zmien Ta'Qali man!

[Curtis]

If this was done by a hobbyist in his garage, it is fantastic. Personally,
I like it. Have seen much worse from big coach builders.

Also neat to see enthusiast customizing/rodding Alfas. I mean, at least
this guy didn't build yet another Cobra, Seven, or highboy.

[argtv6]

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Originally Posted by Curtis If this was done by a hobbyist in his garage, it is fantastic. Personally, I like it. Have seen much worse from big coach builders. Also neat to see enthusiast customizing/rodding Alfas. I mean, at least this guy didn't build yet another Cobra, Seven, or highboy.

[bshorey]

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Originally Posted by AlfaRonny The nose reminds me of another car, but I can't find it. I'm still searching...

[PietereQ]

Well this is deffinatelly heavily modifiied alfetta gt/gtv
I was thinking about it how cool it would be if alfa lanuched her new models heavily inspired vintage models, for instance 116 series gtv, such thngs as ford has done with mustang, chevy with upcoming camaro and so on. Add some hi tech, good old italian design and nice engines, I'm looking forward for alfetta gtv A.D. 2013

[rcx]

Hi Guys i am the person responsible for the design, and helping out jeanpaul finish his alfa.

Thanks for the comments, I was expecting some criticism!

here are some pictures of the car before, and the designs i made for jean..

[sfalfa]

So, will you be stamping and selling body panels anytime soon??

[patzo_3l]

i love it. looks what the new gtv's shouldve looked like. somebody should get this over to alfa headquarters immediately to begin on the "unchanged" production version im thinking of. if you are listening mr.romeo, build us a modern gtv that looks like this. pleaseeeeeeee, pretty pleaseeeeeeeee.....

[italiansedanman]

I think it looks quite interesting - the 3D mock-ups are slightly nicer than the the finshed product because the sides of the air dam taper inwards on the drawings and look really tidy yet, on the real car they are virtually straight up and down and look a bit extreme. With some subtle detail tweaks it would look like a factory concept car.

Prosit rcx, tal-genn man.

[rcx]

remember this was built using sheet metal by Jean and he wanted it a bit wider than the drawing

I think overall few people would be able to dedicate so much time and effort to build a car from scratch completely from sheet metal based on one of my designs ( usually we do everything in fibreglass), but he wanted to do it on his own so even the bumpers hood etc. are all metal.

The engine is from a 166 3.0 V6 24v, drive train from a 75 V6, brakes brembo from the 166 etc.... the interior is still being done but seats etc are in red leather from a modern GTV... The wheels are forged billet built for the car by BRAID, they had to be done this way as the car was widened by 5 inches on each side on the back and 4 inches each side on the front!

Loads of mods to the chassis had to be made which cannot be seen from the pictures, but i can assure you that Jean worked on it for 2 years flat out and used around 2 km of welding! ( kid you not)

Overall in reality it looks better ( like most cars) and for the first car he built can't really complain

[vintage prep]

I think these two did an outstanding job on the styling and execution.

[redspiderveloce]

I think it looks better than lots of the modern day Alfas.