Great Italian car thread

[dinkel]

I hope it will last because it should be good now!

Duetto!

1968 1300.


Perfect shutlines ...


Lurking inbetween the big cats.


Start of the Gijs Van Lennep Legend rally - every one minute a car lifts off and often with a great soundbyte. The overhead cam Nord was no exception.


Alfa Romeo Spider Coda Tronca Iniezione - USA import.


Plates show no info but I guess this is a 2000.

[Fantuzzi]

galaxie5000 said:

A gandini piece indeed. Acquired three weeks ago from a distinguished gent who had 2 other masers in his stable..amazingly has had it from new so 18 years and has reached 175 k miles as a daily driver. Before anyone says that it proves Italian cars take mileage, the amount spent on the old girl is staggering. Bills for £35 k in the Last 5 years alone!!
Consequently just about everything has been renewed at some point. I'm just trying to enjoy it while it lasts..

Great, more pics when you get some more!

Dinkle that Spider looks ace, are the tires bigger or do they normally look that nice and fat?

[dinkel]

Older cars have the high cheek tires, so yes: phat look. I can only guess these are the correct size. 175 something.

[Fantuzzi]

dinkel said:

Older cars have the high cheek tires, so yes: phat look. I can only guess these are the correct size. 175 something.

Yeah I'm familiar with classic cars tires and their higher sidewalls, they just look bigger than on other spiders I've seen.

[galaxie5000]

Re my 'new' Quattroporte, my actual car featured in Autoitalia a few years back and has fared quite well since

http://www.classicdriver.com/en/article/maserati-q...

[dinkel]

Period GTV Bertone sits on 185/65 on 15" rims - some are on 14s.

[beautifulbusso]

Here's my rare beast.

[Fantuzzi]

Is that the Evoluzione? Im crap with alfas of that era.

[iva cosworth]

Went to the Hampton Court concours yesterday,ooh posh.

Some nice stuff there (understatement)



Lancia Stratos Bertone Zero concept.



No explanation required.

[Fantuzzi]

iva cosworth said:

Went to the Hampton Court concours yesterday,ooh posh.

Some nice stuff there (understatement)



Lancia Stratos Bertone Zero concept.



No explanation required.

Come need some more pics than that Iva!

[iva cosworth]

Pics are somewhat limited compared to before as the laptop will not upload pics from either of my cameras.

So presumably a fault with the PC.

So all pics are off the phone until further notice.

I do have some more Italian stuff from yesterday .

[Fantuzzi]

iva cosworth said:

Pics are somewhat limited compared to before as the laptop will not upload pics from either of my cameras.

So presumably a fault with the PC.

So all pics are off the phone until further notice.

I do have some more Italian stuff from yesterday .

Ah no worries.

[errek72]

beautifulbusso said:

Here's my rare beast.

Awesome. Simply... next on my list (need more space).

A friend had one while I had my 75 TS. Showed a pic of it to an Italian colleague about cars and the immediate reply was 'Ah! La Bomba : settantacinque turbo America'. Seems they were scooped up second hand by Italian youth in the early nineties : that Nord allowed fiddling with the turbo and wastegate to quite hefty effect. Bit of a cult car in some areas apperently.

Edited by errek72 on Monday 8th September 20:56

[iva cosworth]

Not been much going on here so......

Car that won concours at Hampton Court a few weeks ago.

[iva cosworth]

It's an Alfa Romeo 6 C Touring Flying Star.......1931.

[dinkel]

Spa 6 hrs 2014:

250 SWB


327 Bizza GT


250F

[jacklewisno1]

I see your fancy Italian motors and raise you with a 100th anniversary Maserati MC12!

[iva cosworth]

Had a delivery at one of my least favourite customer today,due to the waiting outside but anyhoo

the consolation being there is an Italian garage in the same street where today I spotted this.

[jacklewisno1]

Wow! I hope its not a genuine one, if so it seems such a shame to watch it sit in the weeds.

[iva cosworth]

As you can see,there are loads of 500s including Giardiniera [sp]parked around it witing for resto but this

looks to be the proprietors racecar [his name is on the window] so I expect it won't be parked here for long.

Will take a look again,next time I'm in N7.