10-23-2009, 07:58 PM
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The car is going to be stealth once the wheels go on. Looks great!
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10-24-2009, 05:12 AM
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blue and yellow looks good. like the sunoco camaro's!
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10-24-2009, 05:32 AM
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I love the color. This whole thread makes me want to strip down my GTV and start over...
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10-25-2009, 02:01 PM
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I was hoping for something more extravagant than blue , the car after all is one of a kind
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10-25-2009, 03:05 PM
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Initially I was hoping for an original GT color for the car. Some chats overhere on this side of the world (Netherlands) were already going like..."when will the Americans go the American way...blue with white (make it a Daytone or Corvette Replica), stars and stripes, chrome wheels, cupholders, airconditioning, black tinted windows, powersteering 
And then we saw pictures with blue paint!!! SHOCK....but have to say - colour looks great!!!...interesting to see which radical choices are still to come.
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10-25-2009, 05:26 PM
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Thank you all for your support. The car has to look distinctive, but classy. It isn't a boy-racer car. It is not a franken-car, an Alfa with a Corvette-or-something engine as someone observed early on. It is an Alfa Romeo, updated in the spirit of the legendary GTA. It is not an attempt to fool someone that it is a GTA, but a car to pay homage, and where possible, push the performance beyond a GTA and even many modern cars.
Thanks again for your kind words.
Happy Motoring.
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10-25-2009, 06:05 PM
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I would paint in 527 Silver the same as my own 1600 GTJ with twin spark.
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10-25-2009, 06:10 PM
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This car is looking awesome! To be able to work with such pristine brand spanking new body pieces is nothing short of a dream situation for Daron and the boys I'm sure! It'll be hard to go back to fixing up run of the mill ALFAs after this one....but hey who knows? There may be a few more able folks out there waiting in the wings to follow through and pursue their dreams as well.
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10-26-2009, 01:53 AM
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Originally Posted by hagen111
"when will the Americans go the American way...blue with white (make it a Daytone or Corvette Replica), stars and stripes, chrome wheels, cupholders, airconditioning, black tinted windows, powersteering " |
Rofls...
You forgot the velour seat covers and plastic "wood" dash with owner's initials monOgrammed into the dash in gold. I used to work for a Jeep and Cadillac dealer and I'm still trying to get over the experience.
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10-26-2009, 06:37 AM
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Hey, Jim, at least it's not "please don't say it... 'red'. " Hope you are having fun watching the pretty alluminum turn from a collection of parts into a car with soul.
Bill
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10-26-2009, 07:49 AM
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Originally Posted by skyline-driver
Hey, Jim, at least it's not "please don't say it... 'red'. " Hope you are having fun watching the pretty alluminum turn from a collection of parts into a car with soul.
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No doubt Bill, really didn't want it to be red - hope we get to build one for a customer that won't be red! It'll look fabulous and the metallic colour will make the sharp body lines really stand out!
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10-26-2009, 08:07 AM
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Originally Posted by Max Banks
No doubt Bill, really didn't want it to be red - hope we get to build one for a customer that won't be red! It'll look fabulous and the metallic colour will make the sharp body lines really stand out!
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WoW! coming from you, Max, I have instant street cred. Thank you. I agonized over this color selection. And Daron was biting his nails, sure that I would choose a color that might be potentially nauseous. In the end, I trusted the Italian sense of style to drive the color. I picked the Maserati blue netunno color because I didn't want someone with a PT Cruiser or a BMW to walk up and say "that's the color of my car in the parking lot". Red?...at first, I wanted red because Alfas should be red. There is symmetry in the universe when Alfas are red..... but it seemed like half of the Alfas at shows and at the track are red with some stab at distinction in the nose paint. I needed to showcase that this car was something completely different (appropriate nod to Monte Python) and distinct.
The color is close to Alfa Dutch blue, but the pearl highlights and the red and black content will give it a depth and sophistication that the Dutch blue could not. And, as you say, the pearl will dramatize the lines of the car.
Now...where shall I put those cupholders....and the Murican flag....
Bill
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10-26-2009, 08:13 AM
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The color is close to Alfa Dutch blue, but the pearl highlights and the red and black content will give it a depth and sophistication that the Dutch blue could not. And, as you say, the pearl will dramatize the lines of the car.
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Something Dutch on such an amazing car! great! 
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10-26-2009, 09:59 AM
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What about the nose?. Will it be painted in another colour? I like coloured noses on fast stepfront Giulias - your choise of the Masarati blue will create a new blue wave and we will see a lot of blues the coming years - can't wait to see how the cars sidelines will be highlighted by the pearls.
Quit the coffee breaks and hurry to finish the car.
Lars
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10-26-2009, 11:36 AM
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Yes, the nose will have a contrasting color. We are considering options to see whether a silver, a white, a frost, a black or even a red would look best.
Bill
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