Dear all,
There appears to be some interest in revising the book Alleggerita as discussed on this Bulletin Board.
Well the prospect of a revised/new version of Alleggerita is of interest to myself and others, I am sure.
I own copy number 1806 and this book has been very well used as a reference source.
I have been collecting GTA/GTAm items for over 20 years and, am of the opinion that, I could contribute to revisions and corrections to this publication. In particular, a large amount of the GTA/GTAm history of these cars in Southern Africa is not covered in the above publication. Some years ago I sent some material to Tony Adriaensens for possible inclusion in a revised version of his book Alleggerita. I never received a reply from him.
I have been involved with Alfa Romeos, as a hobby, for over 30 years and my experience is that there appears to be a spectrum of 'Alfa Lovers'. On the one end of the spectrum we find the person that goes 'out of their way' to help get a historically important car completed for the 'love' of the task to the other end of the spectrum where the person will 'spin' very elaborate stories to get some parts from you so that they can 'sell them on' at high prices.
I have sold GTA/GTAm parts which were surplus to my project to people in Canada, England and elsewhere - including Alfaholics and Classic Alfa.
My experiences appear to indicate that people in South Africa, with whom I had dealings, were more generous than the Alfa community worldwide which I have dealt with over the internet over the past 5 years.
At this point in time I would only contribute material to Tony Adriaensens for 'reward' i.e. not prepared to ship 'things' around the world for nothing anymore.
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