Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/06/24

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Subject: [Leica] 77 Pininfarina Alfa Romeo "Kamm Tail"
From: craig at craigschroeder.com (Craig Schroeder)
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2018 09:54:37 -0500
References: <574858569.5669.1529809497336@wamui-eagle.atl.sa.earthlink.net> <8a0f6cac-923a-724d-a59d-6d87334a86d7@lighttube.net>

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
>>
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In reply to: Message from montoid at earthlink.net (Montie) ([Leica] 77 Pininfarina Alfa Romeo "Kamm Tail")
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