Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/02/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Italian carmakers took a real beating in the 70s. Alfas, Lancias and Fiats just melted away on the roads of northern europe. For Lancia, the fallout from the rotting Betas was enough to close the UK operation for Lancia. Arguably Lancia had an even greater engineering heritage than Alfa. For Alfa, it was the complete lack of rust proofing on the Naples built (as opposed to Milan) cars (Alfasud series) that killed their market in the UK. Charlie Chan Cheltenham, UK topoxforddoc at btinternet.com www.cancer-surgeon.co.uk www.charlie-chan.co.uk On 3 Feb 2010, at 08:18, W. R. Smith wrote: > Was the Alfasud debacle in the 70s like the Toyota debacle of 2010? > > --- On Wed, 2/3/10, Charlie Chan <topoxforddoc at btinternet.com> wrote: > > From: Charlie Chan <topoxforddoc at btinternet.com> > Subject: [Leica] 100 years of Alfa Romeo > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 1:41 AM > > Great cars, great heritage, shame about the Alfasud rust debacle in > the late 70s (similar to the Lancia Beta sadly). Anyway, Alfa is 100 > years old this year, so here are a few of my Alfa shots celebrating > their racing heritage. > > http://topoxforddoc.zenfolio.com/p284909668 > > By the way, there is nothing like an Alfa V6 on song. I had one in > my V6 Alfa 75 - fabulous. > > Thanks for looking > > Charlie Chan > Cheltenham, UK > > topoxforddoc at btinternet.com > www.cancer-surgeon.co.uk > www.charlie-chan.co.uk > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information