So, pals after all that had happened with Azzuri_GTV's thread ''restoration finally complete'' and the question if his car is original or not, I would like to have your opinion about restoration and the meaning of verb ''RESTORE''.
I believe that restore means;
To bring something, in our case an Alfa, in its ORIGINAL FACTORY CONDITION and only that.
Original factory condition means to make the car looks (externally and mechanically) as it was when it left the production line.
A friend of mine says; You buy a new car. After you leave the dealer's room you have an original car. But when you go for your first service and you change your spark plugs or even a single troublesome mechanical component you don't have any more an original car. I don't agry with this but...
I believe that to restore a car means to bring it as much close as you can, to the condition it was when it left the production line.
This is not easy if you consider that most of our cars are at least 30 or 40 years old and they had suffer a lot. SO THIS IS VERY DIFFICULT OR BETTER SAY WILL NEVER HAPPEN.
So we must say that we are trying to restore or better renovate our cars.
To end here I believe that ...
Azzuri's car isn't original,
mine isn't original,
my best man's Takis isn't original,
if not all, most AlfaBB members' cars aren't original ...
but who cares, we drive them, we race them, we like them as they are, we are allways trying to improve them we make them better and better but most of us don't restore them.
PS. I tried to RESTORE my Giulia 1300ti '67 model, that is to make it like it was, when it left Arese back in May 23 1967, even at the right colour of its last electric line. But as you can understand this is absolutely unable. I only achieved a 90% I think, so I believe that I have done a good renovation.
I believe that restore means;
To bring something, in our case an Alfa, in its ORIGINAL FACTORY CONDITION and only that.
Original factory condition means to make the car looks (externally and mechanically) as it was when it left the production line.
A friend of mine says; You buy a new car. After you leave the dealer's room you have an original car. But when you go for your first service and you change your spark plugs or even a single troublesome mechanical component you don't have any more an original car. I don't agry with this but...
I believe that to restore a car means to bring it as much close as you can, to the condition it was when it left the production line.
This is not easy if you consider that most of our cars are at least 30 or 40 years old and they had suffer a lot. SO THIS IS VERY DIFFICULT OR BETTER SAY WILL NEVER HAPPEN.
So we must say that we are trying to restore or better renovate our cars.
To end here I believe that ...
Azzuri's car isn't original,
mine isn't original,
my best man's Takis isn't original,
if not all, most AlfaBB members' cars aren't original ...
but who cares, we drive them, we race them, we like them as they are, we are allways trying to improve them we make them better and better but most of us don't restore them.
PS. I tried to RESTORE my Giulia 1300ti '67 model, that is to make it like it was, when it left Arese back in May 23 1967, even at the right colour of its last electric line. But as you can understand this is absolutely unable. I only achieved a 90% I think, so I believe that I have done a good renovation.