alfettas for sale

Blue Alfetta in Seattle

I went and looked & drove this car the other day.

Pluses are that it has Euro bumpers and a rather descent interior. Also very little evident rust...front and rear windows done with GTV6 black gaskets instead of Alfetta chrome. Rear hatch will need a respray...handpainted it appears..very rough. also no hatch strut - no biggie.

Car has been fitted with a GoTech system so no further worries about SPICA and Wes Ingram's health/longevity. While the car seems to run OK, I'd say the GoTech still might benefit from a little more mapping....I did not drive the car hard under load at high speads...just 1-2-3rd around a residential neighborhood.

The car was wearing Turbinas, not steel wheels...rubber tread looked fairly new but size & make of tires escapes me...I think 195's ....looked bigger than the old standard 185's.

Seats and carpet in great shape....some faint stains on the headliner but no rips or tears....beautiful "small" wood Nardi....smallest diameter Nardi I've come across and fit and looked great on the car. Nice mahogany shift knob. Speedo and Tach nonfunctional....was told that T/A had been rebuilt, and it appears that one) speedo hasn't been properly connected & 2nd) final work to integrate the Tach with the new GoTech system hadn't been completed.

Not certain as to what if any suspension mods might be living under the car. It seems to have retained the Alfetta front ride height - high (huge gap in front wheel wells) so I doubt there are GTV6 or aftermarket torsion bars installed as I'm sure the height would have been adjusted as part of the process. I didn't feel any shakes, rattles, or mishandling on my brief jaunt around the neighborhood. Brakes appear to work OK - no pulls one way or the other, no squeaks. Parking brake does hold the car on an incline.

Some minuses include a bit of a cold start issue - need to keep the manual throttle employed till car warms up - cold start obviously not sorted w/Go-Tech. There's a crack in the Cam cover and a bit of oil weeps when the engine is running. I was also told there is a bit of a oil leak as the car does leave a small signature in the driveway. I didn't investigate at all so I do not know the source nor the rate.

The engine does rev freely...I didn't notice any undue blue smoke out the rear and the radiator fluid looked clean. There is a set of aftermarket headers on the car and a nice Ansa type twin tail pipe in the rear. I did not discern any bad vibrations in the drivetrain during my brief, and not too fast ride around the neighborhood...Looking underneath the rockers look to be in pretty good shape, no major rust noticed on the underside, in the door jams, or along the underneath of the doors. Additionally the channels around the hatch, and the interior of the hatch lid itself appears rust free. I didn't pull the carpet up to inspect the spare well well nor did I take an inspection in and around the front suspension areas. The two front air dams are not there. I did not test electrical as far as lights or turnsignals and such....

If I didn't have so many projects that I really need to get addressed/finished up I might have actually made a bid on this car. It doesn't seem all that far from being properly sorted.

Owner said he was partner in this car and that all paperwork of recent work and mods was with the other guy, and that he was getting that paperwork for any further enquiries.

My two lira...your mileage may vary.