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davisfamily · #**121** (**permalink**) 12-03-2007, 02:58 PM

Dear Mister Davis,

with reference to your request we are informing you as follows.

According to our documentation files, the chassis number AR 1493 E 06482 and the engine number AR 1315.30988 originally corresponds to an Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Veloce, manufactured on the 3rd April 1958 and sold on the 16th April 1958 to Hoffman Motor Car Co., New York, U.S.A.

The body colour is cloud light blue.

Please note that Mr. Magro has retired since 2005.

Yours, Sincerely,

Marco Fazio

marco.fazio@alfaromeo.com

Automobilismo Storico Alfa Romeo

Centro Direzionale

Viale Alfa Romeo

20020 Arese (MI) Italy

cervara · #**122** (**permalink**) 12-05-2007, 04:02 AM

alfaseeka could you send me your e-mail address as i live just up the road in Brisbane would like to see your car as i am restoring 57 guillietta rust bucket

**pathung** · #**123** (**permalink**) 12-08-2007, 08:46 AM

Geoff, I've added your car to the register.

Stuart, I've added the phrase "Conrero Special" to your car's description - at the end. How's London's weather?

**pathung** · #**124** (**permalink**) 12-08-2007, 08:56 AM

I think that I'm all caught up posting people's information onto the register; if I missed anybody, please let me know. Thanks.

alfazagato · #**125** (**permalink**) 12-08-2007, 11:05 AM

Patrick,
Grisly is the weather today. Rain heavy, moderate and for a change heavy again. Yesterday was not too bad and it was the day I took my Giulietta Spyder to have its MOT ( annual technical check for all cars over three years old in the UK). Not a big deal you may think but..unlicensed, untaxed, no number plates and betting on a dry day because there is no hood...and through the rush hour traffic in central London! OK I get it there and the computer does not recognise an unregistered, unlicensed, un plated car and doesn't have Giulietta on the data base. So phone calls to mission HQ and general argy-bargy on the bureaucratic front and the teat can continue...the car passed flying colours. I can now register it and get an age related number plate. Thank God!
The car is off to the trimmers in the New Year and I attach progress images as of yesterday.

alfazagato · #**126** (**permalink**) 12-08-2007, 11:09 AM

Sorry chaps, fingers working faster than brain...for teat read test! Freudian or what!

davisfamily · #**127** (**permalink**) 12-11-2007, 07:50 PM

According to the Archives in Italy, my 1958 Giulietta Sprint Veloce was originally "cloud light blue." I can't seem to find that wording on any of the color charts. Does anyone have a picture of a car this color? Thanks, Dan Davis(family)

GTD · #**128** (**permalink**) 12-11-2007, 07:52 PM

Dan
Look for Celeste blue.

**pathung** · #**129** (**permalink**) 12-11-2007, 08:59 PM

What a sweet looking car, Stuart. The lighting in the first shot makes the car's grigio paint seem just a tinge metallic; really pretty. Are you leaving the bumpers off for a racy look? It already squats lower than stock, it seems.

Hey, this is a SPRINT thread! How's the Allegerita coming along? Are we going to see a thread on that?

alfazagato · #**130** (**permalink**) 12-12-2007, 02:49 AM

Patrick, just plain old grey from the Alfa colour range of the 50's. Awaiting bumpers as London traffic and parking really needs them. Ride is courtesy of RMR spring and shock-absorber kit which does lower the car slightly. I have only driven it 1.4kms to the MOT station and 1.4kms back so I have no real impression.
Lightweight is progressing...slowly. It returns to London for me to remove (by hand) all the under-seal/bituminous paint before being plastic media paint stripped. Then I will be able to tell precisely what is needed to be done to the body. Still need the sliding window door frames though! Anybody have them or a lead to them?
Keep you posted,
regards

AlfistiSA · #**131** (**permalink**) 12-12-2007, 03:53 AM

While Stuart is looking for the Lightweight frames, I could use a set of fixed aluminium frames for the wind up windows in my '58 Confortevole - these are similar to the lightweight frames, but don't have the sliding plexiglass, rather they "receive" the wind up glass window.

The first 50 Confortevole's were like this, the next 149 had frameless wind up windows, like the Sprint Normale's.

These are pictures from a friend's car

Ciao
Greig

AlfistiSA · #**132** (**permalink**) 12-12-2007, 05:06 AM

This is what Stuart is looking for !

Ciao
Greig

alfazagato · #**133** (**permalink**) 12-12-2007, 06:01 AM

Greig,
It seems to me that the same aluminium section is used on both the Lightweight and Confortevole's frames. Can that be so?
regards,

AlfistiSA · #**134** (**permalink**) 12-12-2007, 06:46 AM

Hi Stuart

The sections are essentially very similar, but apparently not identical, the Confortevole has one length of window channelling in the inside to receive the window glass, while the Lightweight has two lengths of window channeling for the two pieces of plexiglass which slide past each other.

If I can't find a set, then I'll make a set for my car, using the blue car as a pattern.

Ciao
Greig

regards
Greig

**sprintgtc** · #**135** (**permalink**) 12-12-2007, 10:14 AM

Hi Greig & Stuart,
I can see why the frame is needed for the lightweight, but what was the reason for adding one to the confortevole? Was it just Alfa randomness?