Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/06/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Alfa products were always 95% brilliant and 5% "What were thinking, Luigi??!!".? I grew up around them as my father's best friend had a number of them and raced them.? Our family always had Austin Healey 3000's and considered them the poor man's Alfa.? Yours proved to be dependable which is likely a testament to your restoration more than the original engineering.? My dad always said you could tell a Healey owner by their scarred and skinned knuckles.? Alfa owners shared this trait but also had tomato sauce stains on their shirt....? What lovely driving/handling machines, though! > > On 6/23/2018 10:04 PM, Montie via LUG wrote: >> 10 photos best large...ground up restoration that took me a full >> 4 years. This was from it's maiden voyage in 2010 if memory serves. >> Fast and dependable, two high speed round trips between Lauderdale >> and Long Island without a glitch! >> >> Not shown are the plexi-glass headlight covers installed later. >> May have posted a few of these years back. Sadly, another sufferer >> of "Alfa Anal Bifida" made a ridiculously high offer for the car >> in 2013 and I sold it. I miss it! >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/montoid/A1a.jpg.html >> >> Montie >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >