I have one of these. It's a BlackLine too
Had it a fortnight. Love it. I'll love it even more after I replace the awful Chinese 'tyres' on the front!

justsuds wrote:Hi Colin, - I've got one you can have, - in very nice condition, I'll put it in the post tomorrow if you pm me you address.
John.

PM sent. Cheers John. Appreciated.

Just browsing the wonderweb today and came across this:

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C486947

That's some price they're asking.
Has anyone got any comments?

I have a full original document pack with my recently purchased Sprint Speciale including service coupons, Alfacare booklet, Pioneer radio/cassette user guide, dealer network guide etc etc but unusually the owners handbook is in German! :| :shock: So has anybody got an owners handbook/instruction ma...

I loved that red engine block too Richard. Glad to see that you're making such good progress but then the car's so sound to start with. It's been in good hands with Phil and me before you acquired it. If you want any help with it's history, just give me a shout, OK? Did you know for instance that yo...

I had a blast with the car for the decade I owned her. :D If we hadn't moved house and if I hadn't got so many other Alfas in my ownership and if the chance to buy the Sprint hadn't come up and if I had an undisclosed private income and if I hadn't lost my garage in York and if I and my other half h...

No quite. Very wearing on a long run.

Bluesuit wrote:A rare find indeed, must have cost a pretty penny!

You'd be surprised Ian. I am, after all, a Yorkshireman!

No. Phil put the 1.7 engine in. Rebuilt it himself I believe. It's also got the close-ratio gearbox from a 1.2 Ti which, to the best of my knowledge, was also work carried out by Phil in the late 1990s bsfore I bought it off him in 2004.

Bluesuit wrote:Wow that is special(e)!

The front wings are well designed rust traps, so someone has cosseted that one, is it very low mileage?

Ian

Ian, the current mileage is 48,000 (documented).

Go for it Richard!!

A lovely day here in Gods Own Country so I finally got round to giving the Sprint Speciale a bit of a wash and took several photographs for the Insurance Company's agreed value scheme.

I share them here with you. Enjoy:

You're almost certain to get loads of torque steer with an engine of that specification regardless of brake/suspension configuration unless a L.S.D. such as the one made by Quaiffe is fitted (if you can get hold of one). Either that or install the full running-gear from a 33 P4. That's been done bef...

Don't convert them to 33 suspension. The car drives so much better with the Sud suspension IMO :) I'd have to agree with that. I've driven a 'Sud with the 33 outboard brake set-up and for me it was not as sweet as driving a 'Sud with inboard brakes. The car seems to lose something.... If it was me ...

Do it Kev. I had fun in mine today. Played with an Audi A4 on the A1079. Left him for dead on the roundabouts then let him catch up with me before I shot off onto the A15 slip road and home. :lol: Should have seen the driver's face. Hee hee! He didn't have a clue what car I was driving or why he cou...

Looking good Richard!

I was really sorry to part with this car. :cry: It was a case of too many 'Suds and not enough money though so something had to go and since I'd been enjoying this particular Ti since 2004 when I bought her from Mr Gotts, and had another three 'Suds at the time and a 147 as well, after ten years it ...

The car's a good one alright. Used to be mine. Glad it's gone to a good home.
Here's some pictures of her before I took the wings off for the welding to commence (and before I ran out of money!)
Hope they inspire you to carry on Richard....

alfasuddriver wrote:Sounds like Alfamet's new purchase...

Yep. That's the one...

Apologies for not posting more pictures of the Sprint before now. I've been too busy enjoying myself driving her at every possible opportunity. We're over-stocked on groceries. I've been to the supermarket on a sixty mile round trip a few too many times..... just for the sake of it! :roll: Hell, the...

Aye. And she does drive very well by the way.
I haven't stopped smiling yet!

More photos on the way when I get a minute Kev. Strange (or maybe it isn't!) seeing how it's thirty-odd years since these cars were introduced that they attract so much attention. Jo, the delivery driver, was telling me yesterday that she lost count of the number of trucks and cars that were taking ...

It is Kev. Sprints in this condition are getting hard to find.

That was it. ;) The Sprint was picked up from Surrey yesterday morning. The car and her delivery truck got held up in Friday motorway traffic and the driver exceeded her permitted hours otherwise the Sprint would have been with me last night. As a result the truck and the 'Sud spent last night in a ...

After a long wait due to a house move and the awful flooding down south, which is where I bought the car, I've finally got my hands on my recently acquired Alfasud Sprint Speciale.
It was well worth the wait!
Apologies for the poor quality mobile 'phone image.

I know where this car has gone. The buyer knows his stuff!

Do you know, I like this forum. It has a nice friendly vibe. Feels kind of good to be part if it.

And, just as the forum launches, I buy myself another Sud!

It arrives at the end of next week. I'll post pictures on here then and you guys will be the first to see it.

Glad to support your venture Kev. From little acorns and all that......
Well done mate!