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Hello fellow Alfisti,
I've been lurking and posting here since I started my project.
Since the car is at the mechanic's getting buttoned up for its maiden voyage this weekend my hands are clean enough to start uploading some pictures
A bit of background first.
For the past 4 years I had been building one of my lifelong dreams. A sleeper.
So I found 4 blazers / s10's, picked the best of these, settled on an 88, built a 500 hp small block (first ever engine build) slapped it in, lowered it (properly) and went autocrossing.
Had a blast but then the local autocross club moved to a real track which didn't allow trucks so all I could do is go cruising. This beast was fast but it had limited uses. My wife wouldn't ride in it (and shes a heavyfoot), my 3 kids loved it and the two older ones helped out in their own way in part of the build.
Back in May, I took my youngest Max, strapped his car seat and drove into the secluded industrial area around my shop. We went drifting, powersliding, laying rubber and generally irresponsible hooning. we had a blast and were giggling like schoolgirls. We got home, wife was not happy that we both smelled like burnt rubber and gasoline, so I put Max to bed and went into the garage. My friend Hamie came over and we cleaned up the truck. While working on it, Hamie said to me "Hey Gio, I gotta ask you, you're Italian, you live the lifestyle, you eat the food, you drink the espresso, you fly the flag... why are you driving this thing?" He was always a Ferrari fanatic and thinking back to my youth, so was I. I never had blazer posters on the bedroom walls, I had Lamborghini, Alfa, Maserati and Ferrari posters. Anyway, my consolation was this truck that I built would leave Hamie at the stoplights looking for his doors, but I kind of felt silly in it, it felt like something I should have had in my 20's. Anyways, next day I go to pick up Max from daycare and his teacher wanted to see me. She told me that Max told her about our shenanigans the night before and that he hurt his head on my shoulder and on the inside door. In his words he made it sound like we were in an accident. after assuring the teacher we were fine I went home and put up the pics we took the night before on kijiji and in one day sold the truck. This wasn't the vehicle I was going to enjoy.
By the next night, I had a 1981 Spider Veloce in my garage. So almost overnight my garage became the "2 knuckleheads garage"
And the adventure begins.
Cheers
Giovanni
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I've been lurking and posting here since I started my project.
Since the car is at the mechanic's getting buttoned up for its maiden voyage this weekend my hands are clean enough to start uploading some pictures
A bit of background first.
For the past 4 years I had been building one of my lifelong dreams. A sleeper.
So I found 4 blazers / s10's, picked the best of these, settled on an 88, built a 500 hp small block (first ever engine build) slapped it in, lowered it (properly) and went autocrossing.
Had a blast but then the local autocross club moved to a real track which didn't allow trucks so all I could do is go cruising. This beast was fast but it had limited uses. My wife wouldn't ride in it (and shes a heavyfoot), my 3 kids loved it and the two older ones helped out in their own way in part of the build.
Back in May, I took my youngest Max, strapped his car seat and drove into the secluded industrial area around my shop. We went drifting, powersliding, laying rubber and generally irresponsible hooning. we had a blast and were giggling like schoolgirls. We got home, wife was not happy that we both smelled like burnt rubber and gasoline, so I put Max to bed and went into the garage. My friend Hamie came over and we cleaned up the truck. While working on it, Hamie said to me "Hey Gio, I gotta ask you, you're Italian, you live the lifestyle, you eat the food, you drink the espresso, you fly the flag... why are you driving this thing?" He was always a Ferrari fanatic and thinking back to my youth, so was I. I never had blazer posters on the bedroom walls, I had Lamborghini, Alfa, Maserati and Ferrari posters. Anyway, my consolation was this truck that I built would leave Hamie at the stoplights looking for his doors, but I kind of felt silly in it, it felt like something I should have had in my 20's. Anyways, next day I go to pick up Max from daycare and his teacher wanted to see me. She told me that Max told her about our shenanigans the night before and that he hurt his head on my shoulder and on the inside door. In his words he made it sound like we were in an accident. after assuring the teacher we were fine I went home and put up the pics we took the night before on kijiji and in one day sold the truck. This wasn't the vehicle I was going to enjoy.
By the next night, I had a 1981 Spider Veloce in my garage. So almost overnight my garage became the "2 knuckleheads garage"
And the adventure begins.
Cheers
Giovanni
