aarrow

"...until you've owned an Alfa Romeo"

Here's your chance! It'd be mine if I didn't have a wife, kids, and 2nd mortgage. Wait what? I have none of those things!!

Lol. It's the $14,000 for another toy that I don't have.

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/cto/3550048430.html

Anyone else lust after the GTV, too?



No affiliation...

gonzilla

I love GTVs. Some day...

Ed Hughes

That'd be a fun ride for vintage racing.

nile13

Arrrgh! Want! Want so badly.

No place to keep it, though. I'm sure that if I park it under my windows I'll hear it rusting on a quite night on the ocean shore in Boston.

kiesan

Turn 9 at Portland 20 years ago in my '71 with a 2 litre and every Alfa go-fast and blow-up bit you could buy. I was such a punk

Note the plate #... foreshadowing?

stickypatch

Yep, been there, done that.

The standard greeting at Alfa Romeo Owners Clubs is still, "Hi, how many warning lights are on in your car?", isn't it?

tctung

On and off I owned at least one Alfa from 1981 to 2007, from a 1979 GTV 2.0 to a 1997 164 Super. All I can remember is they are much less reliable than the 993.

TMc993

God, I love GTVs! Back in the day, I sold my 356 S-90 to go back to school only to meet a georgeous redheaded grad student who owned both a BRG GTV and a silver 912 Targa (Yes, while attending grad school full time). I spent approximately equal amounts of time lusting after her or her cars...To no avail in either case. She did let me drive the GTV on occasion and it was just a jewel of a car.

DB_NC_95C2

Always Looking For Another (could either be another parts car or just like collecting)

I had a 75 Spider
a 86 Spider Veloce
a 92 Spider Veloce
a 87 75 (I know it had a Milano badge on it, that was for US marketing obviously)
a 91 164
a 94 164S tuned all to amazingness, had that car had rear drive I'd have kept it, what a beast

The GTV is IMHO the most pure expression of what Alfa was

sbarracl

x2

eddie_993

I love those things! I remember about 4 years ago there was one for 15k that was immaculate, it looked like new inside and out. Now this seller is asking 14k for a car that is somewhat a project...

cmat

Plenty of Alfa love here. Count me in as well. I've always lusted after the GTV and was looking for one back in the '90's but wound up getting a '76 Spider instead. Still would love to have one but not at the expense of losing the 993.

slickster85

Love Alfa's, all I needed to know about them I learned from my neighbor who has three, two to drive and one for parts.

MartinC2S

If I wasn't blowing 15K on engine work for my S4 I would be all over this!

race911

From the other end of the spectrum, I worked on enough of them back in the early '80s to know to stay far, far, far, far away. Spica MFI, anyone? And that's when all of the things were relatively new. I suppose now in CA you could do whatever you want with the engine, given no smog checks on the '75-and-earliers.

That said, look up John Norman and what he's done over the decades racing this GTV, often at the highest level of amateur (even pro!) racing.