I regretted selling the sud racer shell that Kev did such a great job with, but needs must. To console myself I’ve just bought these two racers to replace it, I’ll need a dose of the incredible shrinking man serum to fit in them. :lol: D43CB5FD-909D-4E38-A153-4C9DCD9C39A3.jpeg Some where in the loft...

No Gary, ‘our’ old sud is actually on the road via Daves efforts (alfadave). This is series 3 racer shell I bought with the aim / dream of building a stripped out road car, but time and storage and a blown engine in my sprint meant I needed to sell it. Kev welded an sprayed it, we made it look like ...

I thought you were retiring Kev ?

You need to focus on using the Clio, not Japanese rubbish

Not me Keith, I sold it as a bare shell in august last year, it’s been built back up for the owner to race.

There’s what seems like a nice green sud ti on eBay, over budget but you never know. Apologies if it’s owned by a forum member, but could have cleaned the bird sh!t off the drivers seat before taking pics and putting up for 10k........especially as it does look very nice overall. There’s a 4 door on...

Lovely....

That looks lovely

Bigger carbs might not do that much without other modifications. I went from 40’s to 45’s on a 1500 full race, minimal bhp increase but some extra torque, but I also went from Weber to Dellorto so the carb type may have also made a difference. Might be worth looking at chokes and jets first if the e...

Ahhh, the black art of rollers and bhp and losses. All I can say is that if the chap thinks his rollers are relatively well calibrated then that sounds about right and healthy. Alfa quoted 137bhp, my friends very mildly ported 16v on road cams, road exhaust and std injection and air box showed 150bh...

I remember torque steer on all of mine, less so on the 1298cc one with just 70bhp if I remember right. Th s3 33 we had also did it. Is the geometry all spot on, toe etc ? Std size wheels an tyres? Shocks an springs all good ? Interestingly my racer doesn’t really do it, but the low and hard suspensi...

Valve not seating, closing, bent should cause quite a compression drop surely ? Even the slightest leak is going to reduce pressure.

Hope you find it and it’s not too drastic.

Before you do any major changes, is it just me that is questioning why no smoke or oil usage if you have bore wear ? When I had a broken bottom ring on one bore, it blew oil into the catch tank / breather so used it, it was down on power. Are you doing enough miles to notice oil usage ? One of the q...

Anyone got a couple of spare alloys same as title and as per fitted to to the sprint . Thanks

That’s a great bit of kit, I remember seeing it in your workshop. If only I had a double garage......

That could run in the new hscc 80’s production car series as it stands spec wise. Fingers crossed you get a decent price as it looks pretty good overall.

I’d keep the Sud and the Z4. The Z should be a bit more practical to look after, the Sud a bit special but best of both worlds perhaps ?

Lovely, nice photo.

Back to the poll........did you make a decision Gary ?

I’d keep the Giulietta until it drops dead Kev. I know I defected to the dark side but the aim was 200k plus miles, same reason you give which is all you get is a newer plate, the cars themselves were still nice. First one was 185k but clutch was getting ready so px’d it, second was at 160k when it ...

I’ve never had f*ckedupbook or tw@tter accounts, so you are not alone.....

Sud or 33 ?

When you say slam panel, do you mean the flat section above the radiator across the front inner wings ?

I think I have a used but good straight sud one.

I prefer the deeper red like this

I like the original panda, the new one is like a bit sit up and beg. But the newer panda is still better than the breadvan style polo’s and Honda jazz etc.

I’ve lost the fight Dave, and so long as she doesn’t crash it then it will retain a decent resell value when that time comes.

Anyone know the sud ? Page through towards the lower section of the page.

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/top ... 729&i=6460

Thanks all, appreciate the feedback. Looks like I’ll be trying to find one. Sod’s law she wants the least available colour, black, whereas about 50% of them are white. Lockdown will hold us up anyhow but gives me something to search for while Mrs veesix watches cr@p on telly

Thanks all. Tbh they’re out of our price range both money and for a first car that I’ll get scraped and dinged, but that’s what she wants so it will likely be a cheap, high mile old one. Thought about a KA, newer aygo but couldn’t sway her. Form over function for a teenager, in honesty I’d feel a bi...

Comrades My daughter is 17 soon, and wants a fiat 500. Can’t believe the asking prices of used ones, but if we get one it would be the earlier 69bhp 1.2 petrol version (the 0.9 twin air looks to be higher insurance). Anyhow, do any of you have any experience of owning and driving one that you can sh...

Same here, piles of crap, slow, sound shite, look shite.........crap and more crap.

I’d love a golf gti mk1, but the beetles and campers are .......crap.

Karman Ghia is a nice shape but same crap running gear.

Sounds good, I’ll tow the racer there (wherever there is.....)

Prefer this Kev https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TOP-MARQUES-1-18-ALFA-ROMEO-75-EVO-IMSA-GIRO-DITALIA-1988-PATRESE-BIASION/114627091916?hash=item1ab04e9dcc:g:M80AAOSwZHRf~d-w Or https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Minichamps-1-43-Alfa-Romeo-Alfasud-ti-silver-1974/184621494858?hash=item2afc4c724a:g:RFwAAOSwDnNgAKqv...