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If you think that an original 904 or Carrera Speedster is expensive, price one of these sometime. Well North of $10 million:
 My personal favorite, a Zagato bodied SZ: 
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Kind of bad placement in that picture having the sign pointing to it that says it's a toilet, though!
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Good-bye Porsche-Guy.
Don't tell me I did not warn you. These cars are the worst made machinery IN THE WORLD! Regardless of whether some stock broker paid $10m for a toilet. ZERO TOLERANCE FOR ALPHAS AND JAGUARS FOREVER!!! (Did I mention I grew up with an italian auto electrician for a father?
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1971 1750 kamm tail
The 105 series alfas are the only cars that have soul like a 911. If they had continued to develop it the aircooled 911s would have a competitor. I had this one for almost 20 years. I wish circumstances hadn't forced me to lose her.
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Oh man - that's a bad bob-cut.
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I'm a fan of the older Alfas, and have owned a 1969 Boattail Spyder (1750 injected) for about 10 years. I've had no major problems with it (other than the bakelite distributor coming apart once -- and it's inside this next-to-impossible to remove shroud, which is itself nestled snugly under the fuel injector lines...)
I think it's a fine car, with plenty of soul ... and an antiquated, diesel-truckesque injection system. So I'll change to carbs when some impossible-to-obtain piece in the injection system goes. I like the 1750s particularly. Get yourself as nice a specimen as you can find, pref. from an Alficionado, so it's been sorted and pampered. I'd avoid Jaguars -- too many friends with too many heartache/headache stories, and the guy who does my body/paint work (who is very very good) tells some of his funniest/worst (depending on who's writing the checks) stories about Jags. JP
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2003 SuperCharged Frontier ../.. 1979 930 ../.. 1989 BMW 325iX ../.. 1988 BMW M5 ../.. 1973 BMW 2002 ../..1969 Alfa Boattail Spyder ../.. 1961 Morris Mini Cooper ../..2002 Aprilia RSV Mille ../.. 1985 Moto Guzzi LMIII cafe ../.. 2005 Kawasaki Brute Force 750 |
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