My pm’s for some reason were knocked off (by me) but I’ve put ‘em on again now.

Not for eBay. I’ve carted that thing round the U.K. with insufficient skill to get it properly sorted. I’ve paid thousands to have a new motor put in it as the 33 motor it has when I got it was wrecked and had the gearbox rebuilt. It doesn’t work yet but frankly I’ll be damned if it’s going to some ...

Here are photos of it. When I say dismantled it’s all there, I just think it will all need to come apart. I dropped the engine to rescue the bulkhead which is now sound and the engine is back in and I’m reattaching the plumbing. I just think it will need a rebuild. For the avoidance of doubt it’s fr...

After having a brush with the C word, which was hopefully caught early I’ve changed course a bit so if it happens again I don’t saddle my loved ones with stuff and I’m spending more time with the kids. To this end the old Alfasud sprint hill climber which was half disassembled (badly) by me needs to...

Brilliant Louise thanks.

Retired! I’m sure he’s younger than me! He’s only a bairn!

Slightly off Alfasud albeit I still have my sprint. Sorry I can’t remember if I have asked this before. I’d love to find out out if Roger Evans can build me a special V6 for a Stratos rep that’s arriving in the future - I can wait 18 months - but I can’t even see a website for Peak Alfa and I live a...

I’ve got the race car set up with the button. I take the battery master out and just in case I’ve a second switch if I was ever leaving it for a long time.

The WD40 strips the oil off - PTFE is about the only useful thing you can buy in Homebase these days since they stopped selling mars bars.

As my car is still stuck in the air I might take mine off to measure. I saw some ones off a Scania Truck sway bar that looked about the same size and shape were £7 and should be a smidgen firmer but of course no idea if they would fit.

I haven’t had them out on mine so I don’t know how squidgy the standard ones are. I’ll be driving mine on the road so solid bushes might be a bit much. I wonder if there is a half way house that fits in the trillion bushes out there.

My sprint is late 83 and has what I think is a later pressed steel tail at the end of the gearbox which appears a bit floppy and a floppy bit of rubber through which a tail mounting (bar/pipe?) passes through and is bolted to the floor. I only have a Haynes manual up to 84 which shows the tail mount...

Shame I can’t find suckers who bought / buy emins crap, and that other d!ck head so called artist whose name escapes me, bald obnoxious bloke, to pay ridiculous sums of money for kevs art. Main difference is kevs is quality and emins and the nob I’m referring to is junk. 😀 Damien Hirst. The late Da...

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Sat Jun 20, 2020 10:56 pm

Kev is creating a masterpiece ..... a retro modernist take on the art of rust removal and paint application.

We’re going to hang a wing in the Tate gallery.

It’s a lot more relevant to my life than Emin. It’s also probably a lot better than Alfa managed first time round.

One of my other hobbies is collecting contemporary art from the St Ives and Newlyn schools - Jesus it’s like an artists studio there. I’ve been putting my motor back in today and I’m ashamed of my working environment in comparison.

I’ve just looked. They’ve got loads of good things. I’ve never owned one (except a Caterham which is mostly Ali) but I’m a big fan of small glass coupes.

A former colleague collects Clans for classic rallying but I get the impression from him they are harder to maintain than I dream of.

TI’s and the “top dog” models of all 70s classics have sky rocketed. I think vendors of plainer cars hope the values of their cars, particularly in stronger colours like this are pulled up with them. Do you have a Rochdale Olympic? I’ve never seen one in real life. I used to love reading Malcolm Mac...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Alfa-Romeo-A ... 4049399704

Not sure the picture of the telephone or the car under a rescue blanket add anything to the advert.

Yep there is not a lot of room to work with to see what’s going on. If I recall correctly the coil is with the engine and not up front. I was never wholly convinced a fuel tank in the engine bay was a great idea. If I get one again I’m having both a plumbed in extinguisher and a camera mounted in th...

It was more like why have the police called round asking about a silver sports car registered in my name moving between Public car parks and streets, being parked for days and then being moved in the middle of the night. Matra Murena 2.2 full history - only lhd and the engine isn’t the best but the ...

I’ll be interested to see how you get on as we have similar cars albeit mine started life as 1500 and is stripped as road legal hill climber by a former owner. I may ask for close ups of bits and bobs in due course.
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My electrics were crap but I spent a day going over every contact with special attention to the earths and fuses with emery paper, contact cleaner and cotton buds and it’s much better.

I don’t have any pics as fortunately my cars body was done really well by the former owner and I’ve not really needed to touch the body other than strip and repaint the bay during lockdown.. I’ve got plastic rear qtrs which you’d never know and light as a feather. Not my first choice but I’m a lot m...

Sud 145 wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 14, 2020 5:07 pm

Has the current Mrs F heard about her more amenable replacement yet?

You weren’t around for the Matra incident. I’ve never let Mrs F forget how much I liked that car. Mrs F has never let me forget the police came round. 15 years ago. I do like a Matra.

Fixed price https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Alfa-Romeo-33-Ti-Veloce/333616376776 I don’t know if Stilauto alloys are a “thing” or not but in the picture they look like revs I’ve tried to make at home. Having said that I want it but then I want all red 33s - I don’t have time to drive to slough to see an...

I think a number of the internet groans on other non Alfa forums (eg piston heads)arise from stuff failing quickly when it isn’t fitted properly and then the parts quality gets blamed. I’m not much of a mechanic and far from perfect - I’m very heavy handed with ball joints as one of many examples. H...

I liberated one that was on a Lancia I used to own and the Lancia was sold on without it. The Best seat ever in or out of a car. Really light weight too. I’ve used/ got Sparco and Tillets too and they are horrible in comparison. I wanted another to match my seat that’s all. It’s not just the shape a...

Dies anyone know if Ridgard designed seats are still being made following Bob’s passing last year. The Ridgard website is still up but that doesn’t necessarily mean anything.

I’ve only been in this forum a couple of months and I’ve never met most of you and those who I have - it was years ago when I had the 75 - you won’t remember. However I saw this posted somewhere else and it just reminded me of a number of contributors on this site - please take it as the compliment ...

Jeez that’s a dangerous game. I’ve been allowed to keep my newly powder coated xmember in the house until it goes back on as it’s very very clean.

I’ve got time in my hands - the delorttos work fine it’s just a waste to have a set of Webers sitting in a box apparently broken but looking much nicer than the delorttos - they look like the chip pan I had as a student.