Never have truer words been spoken

[ga_mtn_spider]

Here's my latest diamond in the rough, a purchase off Atlanta 's Craigslist yesterday. ALFA Always Looking For Another, how true.

[maxwedge]

Just a little soap and water scrubbing, and a quick spray with some Febreeze to get the musty smell out, she'll be good as new.

I've always liked white and red, that looks like a cool project.

[silverspider]

Look at it this way: what else were you going to do with the next five years of weekends anyway.

[brownie93]

Keep us posted. Nice looking project

[lgbalfa]

great color combo.

i have always liked duetto's.

[Biba69]

Do replace the screen door handle (aka door pull) soon. However, unless it is all done with smoke and mirrors (aka lots of plastic filler) that is one nice looking trunk lid. If when the lid is wide open and the area for the license plate lights is undisturbed - and even better yet, both lights are there and in good condition - that alone is a great achievement. One missing bumper overrider and lollypop, but overall it looks really, really nice.

Biba

[Anfanuts]

Quote:

Originally Posted by silverspider Look at it this way: what else were you going to do with the next five years of weekends anyway.

[ga_mtn_spider]

Thanks, for the positive reinforcement, P.O. said his wife drove it thru law school and had it painted white rather than the original ivory. The soap and pressure washer have been applied at this point and honestly I think it might have looked better with the tree sap. Yes Biba I replaced the drivers door pull today, I stopped at Home Depot and now she has a shiney CHROME handle, just kidding, I'll take pictures as I progress.

[ga_mtn_spider]

Forgot one thing, the overrider and lollypop were in the car, P.O.'s wrecker driver thought they would be as good a place as any to wrap the cable when they moved from their last house.....

[Biba69]

A real shame about the idiot wrecker guy. Since I've restored a good handful of Round-Tails (all 1750's) I watch the loading and unloading on a flat bed like a hawk. Even then twice I've had dents inflicted in the forward portion of the gas tank. They are cars that it is pretty much mandatory to have Triple A. Twice I've run out of gas with the Spiders. Not very smart of me.

I'm supposed to get a (1600) Duetto in late summer. I'm looking forward to it. You'll enjoy working on your car. Since you referred to the Spider as your latest, I assume you've gone through the restoration process before. Still, I'll offer words of advice - first I'll sugest you ship it to Biba Restorations for a cost no object restoration - but short of that, photograph every nook and cranny on the car before you touch a thing...especially that nifty door pull. Then with at least a dozen banker's boxes and at least 200 zip lock baggies, start removing items, putting exterior parts in the exterior box, etc. Clean, uggh, under the chassis and wheel wells and of course every other part on the body. Then when you have a nice clean bare shell, make it pretty and structurally/mechanically sound, along with all of the other parts, and you now have a 'diamond'...Not in the rough.

I'll add that I remove the wiring from both the engine bay and trunk along with everything in the interior making lots of notes what each wire is for. When I get to the instruments, and using a marker, I'll put A by the first connector on the instrument's side, then an A on a piece of masking tape attached to that wire, etc. Once completed I roll the two wiring looms (one on each side of the steering column) tightly and insert each in a large, heavy duty zip lock bag and tape them tightly. Do it right and you won't get any water in them when you hose the interior down.

Biba