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Mortimer
Big brakes, Ferrari seats. The Legend?
Gone, but not forgotten....
74 Spider
Got eaten.
The General
1973 Berlina
Purchased July 1998
Pains me to say good-bye to this one but there are too many cars for too small a budget.
Traded for a paint job on the spider.
1974 GTV
My old GTV shortly after purchase. My second Alfa came with these nice Momo 6"x14" wheels. This car got the go fast treatment, including
Shankle springs and sway bars, yellow Koni "sports" all around, adjustable upper arms.
The motor is where most of the effort (money) went. Starting from stock I went for a "short port" with some 7L cams. an electric fan. Nice, but not yet enough......
I traded that head for one of Jon Norman's "development" heads with O/S intake valves, a complete sport port job and 11mm Pittatore FI cams. Also milled .020 for increased compression ratio. Similar to a "stage 3" treament.
At the same time, 10.4 pistons, milled flywheel, 911S pressure plate, balanced (.5 grm was the standard then)......
(see Mortimer for further development of this motor)
1971 Berlina
The old '71 I bought from Pat. HE liked MY alfa and he wanted one too. ..one that that the family could take. I went to help "check it out" when he bought it. I wasn't worried about the rust.... told him it'd never be worth less than he paid for it.. ..only 1200$ i think for the parts alone.
I may have been wrong about that...
BUT, at least when it became more than he wanted to deal with, i gave him that much for it. Tho he was still out several hundred dollars.
I did some changes, drove it for a few years but it wasn't that fast, always smoked.... .finally, the body just wasn't up to the heavy front sway bar, the chassis flexed so badly the windshield broke. I quit driving it after the floorpan rusted out.
I've been parting it out, using the nice parts for the 73.... but after so many years it's become quite an eyesore.....
And then today, one of my customers gave me this beautiful line art.......
It doesn't show the rust, or the moss fading brown (I call this my "green" car)
It's paper clips now baby!
Thanks Sophie!
GTA Fish Story
Alfa at the rare American Formula 1 event of 1980 and the "Long Beach Gran Prix".
Photos.
It's only a cigarette light, how hard can it be to fix? (It's not)
Ingram Enterprises
Alfa Parts for Alfa Romeo
Berlina Register
AutoComponenti
Homepage
Alfa Romeo Owners Club - USA
Downing
Fuel Injection
Links
Haltech
Simple Digital Systems
EM-2
MoTeC Engine Management
Systems
HKS USA,
Inc.
