1967 Tri-Color Car Details

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alfie1750

Discussion Starter · Sep 10, 2007

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Dear August GTA Forum Members,

I've moved over from my more normal and lowly spot on the mere steel bodied 105 GTV forum page, at Can Am Bob's suggestion, to seek your advice and help.

I've fashioned a 1969 GTV racer restoration (see pictures below) in the fashion of Horst Kwech's #3 1967 Trans-Am tri-colored car. While I'll never catch those pesky GTA's in the SOVREN race series I'm running, I at least want to look the part and want to festoon my car with the same sponsorship/advertisement stickers from the period, to finish the car off.

I've researched the pages on this forum and found a good number of pictures of the '67 tri-colored cars, but never a full side shot of either the red, or white sides of the car. Is there anyone out there with anymore cool pictures they can share?

I look forward to your help in filling in the blank spaces so to speak. Many thanks,

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jrclem

· #2 · Sep 10, 2007 (Edited)

In my humble opinion, your four headlight late model GTV will never resemble any step-nose GTA or GTV...
But I hardily approve of your effort to continue the spirit of these great cars!
That said, the series sponsors at the time would have been STP, Valvoline, Goodyear, and either Champion or NGK. These would have had stickers on virtually all of the entrants (along with the Spoke-Wheel SCCA sticker).. Other possible mention would be Castrol, Koni, Sunoco...

jrclem

· #3 · Sep 10, 2007

And another thing!
Dave: Don't call me "August!" I get enough of that crap from the west coast "whippersnappers!" (who regularly duck me)!

...good luck with the 1750! It looks cool,

Palmer

· #4 · Sep 10, 2007

Great looking paint job. Good luck with your racing programme.

Is that a period brake option in picture one?

alfie1750

Discussion Starter · #5 · Sep 11, 2007

Nothing Wrong with wood

Is that a period brake option in picture one?[/QUOTE]

In lieu of the hand brake, I do use a calibrated block of wood. I found a house brick just too heavy. Cheers,

alfie1750

Discussion Starter · #6 · Sep 11, 2007

jrclem said:
In my humble opinion, your four headlight late model GTV will never resemble any step-nose GTA or GTV...

Many thanks your note re: period ads, etc. I'm just glad to keep another Alfa out of the hands of the scrap merchants, or to just oxidize its way into oblivion. I really didn't set out to make a GTA lookalike, but saw some Trans-Am photos in Dave Friedman's book "The Pony Wars" and just thought these '67 cars looked great, so copied the paint job. Cheers,

italcarguy

· #7 · Sep 12, 2007 (Edited)

Dave,

Here are a few pictures I have of the car. Hope it helps!

Anthony

alfie1750

Discussion Starter · #8 · Sep 13, 2007

Anthony,

Many thanks. Next stop, find someone who makes these old stickers. Cheers,

akitaman

· #9 · Sep 15, 2007

Dave, call me at the shop Monday. One of our customers has found a place that can reproduce the stickers. He ordered a bunch to apply on his car. He sent us one set to test. BTW, are you coming to the open house / club meeting on the 9th? BBQ and Spirits will be there.

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la_strega_nera

· #10 · Sep 16, 2007

italcarguy said:
Dave,

Here are a few pictures I have of the car. Hope it helps!

Anthony

Who's is the #35 car with "Australia" and the flying Kangaroo on it?

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alfie1750

Discussion Starter · #11 · Sep 17, 2007

Akitaman,

I definitely plan to come to your Open House and I will definitely give you a call on the sticker source. Many thanks & see yah soon. Cheers, Dave K

italcarguy

· #12 · Sep 17, 2007

la_strega_nera said:
Who's is the #35 car with "Australia" and the flying Kangaroo on it?

Horst Kwech

alfie1750

Discussion Starter · #13 · Sep 17, 2007

The Kangaroo on the #35, belongs to Horst Kwech's, 1967 GTA. Being a good expat Aussie, Horst kept a picture of his country's national symbol on his race mount.

The numbers on the Knauz Continental Motors race cars that year seem to change almost with every race. I'm told by Can Am Man that the numbers 3, or 6, were Horst's favorite numbers, so a combination, of one, or both appear in most photos of that year.

la_strega_nera

· #14 · Sep 17, 2007

Bugger me. I never knew Kwech was an Aussie...
I guess I'll add him to the list with Vern Schuppan...

borrani

· #15 · Oct 3, 2007

Marchal decals

Akitaman,

Are there any Marchal headlamp stickers being reproduced? Those would be a godsend to many alfisti!

See you on the 2nd Tues. of this month.

Steve Schaeffer
Seattle, WA
ex-1965 GTA

akitaman

· #16 · Oct 3, 2007

Hi Steve, contact BBer JohnT. He found a outfit in Portland or England that reproduces everything.

ALFA GTV6 GP

· #17 · Oct 3, 2007

Like these Ebay.

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jrclem

· #18 · Oct 3, 2007

Or maybe this from Monoco in 1969:

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la_strega_nera

· #19 · Oct 3, 2007

jrclem said:
Or maybe this from Monoco in 1969:

I wonder if that thing had an uprated alternator?

JohnT

· #20 · Oct 4, 2007

stickers

Steve/ all-
Check out this Ebay store (out of England). I got all of mine from them. They should have Marchal (they did last time I looked). They also made some custom stickers for me. Very responsive and got them quickly. I got Marelli, Elf, Champion, Cinzano, Koni & Shell. They specialize in vintage style stickers (in vinyl).
http://stores.ebay.co.uk/I-Say-Ding-Dong-Decals-Stickers
-JT

borrani said:
Akitaman,

Are there any Marchal headlamp stickers being reproduced? Those would be a godsend to many alfisti!

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