RE: Shed of the Week: Alfa 164 Twin Spark

[Chris1973]

carinaman said:

Chris, that's the second time I've seen that photo on PH. I'm not sure what looks better the woman or the 164, and I seriously like 164s.

Cheers Carinaman, it's made my Other half's day!

[Alex]

JimPetrol said:

I've only ever driven a twinspark - I reckon a V6 would be very different!

I drove both (TS and V6) quite a lot in the early 90s, as we had one of each in the car pool. The V6 sounded so much better, but was not actually much quicker and the TS had much nicer handling.

[Cloverleaf76]

Couldn't resist an opportunity to post a pic of my 164 3.0 24v Cloverleaf. Steadily developed for fast road use over the last 16 years of ownership, the car has full Recaro interior; 6 speed gearbox; Q2 differential; Konis; OZs; Momo; big brakes; flowed heads; improved induction; and a custom exhaust, including a free flow cat.

|http://thumbsnap.com/QjQpp2er[/url]

[PowerfullyBuilt]

Looks a Barolo fun!

[chrisc156]

Just signed up to post on this!

Was leaving Oulton Park a few weeks ago following Vauxhall VXR event in my 93 K 164 Super Lusso 24v when the official photographer for the event walked up to me.

His comments were 'Ahh, now there's a proper car...', kind of made my day!!

Chris

[Oelholm]

Arbo said:

Pmsl...... I've never heard of this before ..shed of the week...only found out when the guy who bought it told me this is we're he saw it.....the write up is hilarious..great work guys......I took this car in part ex off an old boy and gave him £250 for it.i just wanted it gone and my money back...he had just spent £427 for the MOT aswell... I was going to surrender tax and weight it in...just thought someone may have a use for it...and it ends up famous..on she'd of the week....LOL. ;0)

This SOTW has had me browsing for 164s for sale - and I'm currently in Afghanistan with 6 months to go!

[The Boy Lard]

Now been looking at these over here, look what I found

164 Barn find of the week

[Devil2575]

No into that at all.

Alfas of that era were ugly.

[ffhard]

Come into this one late but, as a dedicated Alfa-head (I know, I know!) for £250 precisely WTF do you have to lose? When the MOT runs out if you've fallen out of love with it you've got about £150 of scrap value, more if you break it for spares. Same applies even if it blows up.

[carinaman]

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C420415

It's available again.

[Tara llems]

Devil2575 said:

No into that at all.

Alfas of that era were ugly.

Competition in 1987:

The BMW was a looker, I'm actually liking the e34 more and more again. It's past the banger car era now, when it was launched it was such a big hit. But the rest leave a lot to be desired.

The Alfa was a beautiful pininfarina saloon worthy of a bedroom poster.

[carinaman]

Not strictly an SoTW as it doesn't have an MoT but there's a LHD V6 Q4 on eBay with 2 hours left.