All Good Italian Things Should Be Red

My Alfa was red as well..........2600 Bertone Sprint.....

....bl**dy huge car.............designed by Italians for Italians over 6'-0" tall.......

Biggest problems?............You guessed it.................... paintwork, rust and electrics.....

 

may as well paint it the same colour as the bin in the background. Red all the way....

sure the bin was brown ??????

 

with a white frame.

 

Thanks, camera angle is everything- it does have a few ermm grazes both front and back which will need expert touching up (fnarr fnarr). Its a diesel, would have liked a V6 but expensive on juice and not easy to find. Had a 33ti veloce years ago, great engine - 1.5 boxer with two twin choke Webers - but the bodywork rusted before my eyes!

 

That's the sad thing about the Alfa V6 - absurdly thirsty.
I had a 33SW for a decade. 1.7 boxer. It was brilliant and had almost no rust, except where the battery eventually overflowed and ate away all the metal underneath it. About 110'000 miles out of that one.

 

Lamborghinis look dreadful in red.

 

What amused me about the Alfa 2600 Bertone Sprint was the bl**dy handbrake............

The fulcrum / mounting point was situated under the driver's seat so the handle was accessible between the driver's legs.....

.....great if you were over 6'-0", but if you were shorter, the seat was adjusted more forward; and the more forward, the less the handle showed and it wouldn't come up far enough.............

Only an Italian could come up with the design, where if you were a shorta*se, you had to avoid parking on a hill............

 

You'd have thought they'd have noticed that.
They are, after all a nation of shortarses.

 

Apparently, you do!

 

took yer time.

 

oh, i don't know.... this looks ok

 

Wow! The Italians even do cool-lookng tractors! I quite fancy one of those, even if I have no use for it.

 

Its got 'wets' on, looks/goes better with 'slicks'......

 

The other 'great' thing was the fact that the electric windows, windscreen wipers and indicators were all on the same circuit and the fuse had a habit of blowing when you tried using the windows at the same time as the wipers.......

......many times I got caught in a sudden rainstorm with the windows stuck open, wipers not working and having to do hand-signals............in an LHD car..........

 

It's called 'character'...

 

I had an Alfa GT1300 Bertone coupé. It had those wipers which move towards and away from each other. Picked it up from a service in Liverpool once, got on to a dual carriageway, it started to rain, put on the wipers and they met in the middle and stuck together. The garage must have moved them on their splines. Fortunately, the windows weren't electric, so I could see where I was going, just, but sticking my head out of the window. That one was left hand drive too. Oh the joys of an old Alfa.