Pistonheads occasionally flags up a thread on the 164, courtesy of one of their ads. Obviously, I've always thrown in my tenpence worth but decided to abstain this once, mainly due to my computer needing an overhaul to allow me once again to upload photos to such sites (I can't see other posters' pi...

Hi Everyone, Difficult to believe after this past Easter weekend's gloriously sunny and warm weather that virtually no one was able to take their fur-lined coats off one week previously at Beaulieu in spite of the same level of sunshine! God it was cold! Good turnout, of course, and I was well impre...

Your wish is my command! God, you're a hard taskmaster, Sir - three buckets of hot soapy water (one just for the wheels) where a single bucket usually does the trick - and on bl**dy Christmas Day too! Still, it's always a good time to wash a car - while the turkey's basting away for a couple of hour...

Just thought I'd take the opportunity of wishing all of you a Very Merry Christmas and for 2019 my best wishes for the least troublesome, least expensive and most enjoyable year of classic Alfa ownership and driving pleasure. After my year in 2018 I'm hoping to find myself in a slightly (understatem...

Thanks for the appreciative comments on the Opel Monza (another rare one these days). I recall a red one campaigned, for several years actually, by a driver called Gavin Cox - particularly remember seeing him on the Lombard RAC Rallies in the early '90's. It seemed a big car to be throwing along for...

Hi Kerry, Yes, they're rare in white, it seems! Good luck with the restoration. Regarding the Boge electronic dampers I came across Alfa Service (in Germany) after reading a post (on alfaowner, I think) by an American 164 Cloverleaf owner who sent all four of his dampers across the Atlantic to them ...

Hello Everyone, Hope you are all well and enjoying a 'fruitfully-Alfa summer' midst all this gorgeous weather (can this really be England?). Apologies big time for the long absence from the forum. I see there haven't been any 164 postings since my last one so presumably I'm flying the 164 flag alone...

Thank you for the encouraging comments, Gents. Did take her out yesterday evening for a bit of a fast blast to try and 'break myself in again'. Obviously, being mid-June the car came back all facially 'splodged' with dead flies. This morning, in the garage, with said insects having been nicely 'cook...

Home again, home again, jiggity jig... Relief! Glad to have the 'Leaf home once more. The work has made a vast difference (the whole point, obviously!) and now, of course, there's the inevitable anxiety of taking the car out on the road for fear of "that first chip" on an otherwise unblemished car. ...

Hey, we have got paint on the car - fantastic! Now being carefully put back together with the relevant undersealing etc. Looks as though we're now on the home straight - quite excited actually! Well, as I said earlier, the first makeover since this particular 'Leaf rolled off the Arese production li...

Nice quintet of Alfas to go under the hammer (if you're anywhere near Norfolk that day!) on Sat.17th June - see catalogue link below:

http://www.angliacarauctions.co.uk/en/c ... june-2017/

Also, the odd Ferrari, Maserati, Fiat and Lancia as well.

Good point - been off the site for a while and was concentrating on the 5-photo upload limit so didn't spot I was creating new threads each time! Thanks for the heads-up. Incidentally, you described the 164 as a 'big' car - yes, at the time it was the largest car Alfa were making. Here's a couple of...

Getting closer to some paint going on...

Few more photos as the work continues...

As we all know, the real key to a good restoration job is in the preparation and this is where the most time was spent in my case. The painting part of the process seemed to happen very quickly once JC's men got to that stage but then, also, the truth of the matter is that very little of the car has...

Good afternoon, Gents! Apologies for the absence (it's been a while) but something to post at last. Finally got around to giving my 164 Cloverleaf a bit of a facelift/botox/plastic surgery (whatever these Italian mistresses call it when their ageing process becomes too distressing for them to go out...

Thanks, glad you liked the write-up. I confess (obviously!) to being a true fan of the 164. There's a small number of them beginning to emerge for sale currently. Alfa Aid in Maidenhead have two (both black) which they're advertizing on behalf of an Alfa collector who's currently down-sizing his cla...

Hello there! Just thought I'd say how pleased I was that Classic Cars saw fit to print my letter praising the 164 in their August 2016 issue whilst also including the photo I attached of my own 'bianco' Cloverleaf. Every little bit of 164 promotion can only help the cause, hopefully. Of course, the ...

So, Shrew - all's gone quiet in the 164 lounge. I noticed the so-called winning bid on your own 'Leaf and have assumed you are no longer the owner? Presume you've read the 164 write-up in the current edition of Classic Cars? Mind you, Classic Cars made the 164 sound seriously problematic in my view,...

Shrew, Ill be interested to see how high the bidding goes on your 'Leaf now that you've put it on e-Bay. I'm getting the feeling you've got slightly itchy feet at present but - maybe a word of caution! I was down at my local tyre fitters (having a pair of P7's fitted to the rear of my own 164) when ...

Hi Shrew, Thanks for the info - very interesting indeed. I think I'd keep the 'cat' and look to a decent rear silencer just to keep it all in reasonable check noise-wise (I'm a touch too old these days for 'bad boy' exhausts!). I live in Binfield down in Berkshire so I guess I'd have to set aside a ...

Hello Everyone, It's not imminent as I need to 'polish up' a couple of cosmetic details first but what stainless steel exhausts can 164 owners recommend? The main purpose from my personal perspective of going stainless is longevity - ie. I'm not after a whole load of extra noise but wouldn't mind a ...

Oh yes, very nice indeed. Well done, you! You've given them a kind of 'burnished' look judging by the photos. Very classy.

It also seems to have got itself 'stuck' bidding-wise around the £10K mark...

Kev, If you're perchance lusting after a Lancia Montecarlo then this below is probably the best currently on the market: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1983-Lancia-Montecarlo-Words-cannot-do-this-car-justice-/222056815446?hash=item33b39e1b56:g:azoAAOSwu1VW6ZYc Genuine 'dry' South African import and a one...

Thank you, Gents. Sorry the first post was totally subjective appraisal and impressions but light on hard factual info. I've run my 'Leaf since 2002 (it's a '93 on an L reg) and it's completely standard. The most I've ever done is put a K & N air filter into a slightly-opened up airbox which helps a...

Hello Everyone - new member here, recruited (or 'radicalised' perhaps!) by Shrew, after I contacted him via his CarandClassic advert for his 164 24V 'Leaf which is For Sale (No, DON'T Do It -Don't sell!). Rather than ramble on about my 164 I thought I's 'cut and paste' an article on the subject of t...