RE: Shed of the week
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http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Alfa-Romeo-155-
It's on Ebay if you want to see more pics of the beast.....
It's my mates car - just rang him to tell him it's "Shed of the week"
Have been in the car, tbh it goes well and sounds even better!!!
It's on Ebay if you want to see more pics of the beast.....
It's my mates car - just rang him to tell him it's "Shed of the week"
Have been in the car, tbh it goes well and sounds even better!!!
MJK 24 said:
Problem with the 155 is the 156. In reality a better car and you can get early 4 pots for sub £1k now.
Kind of pushes the 155 ever downwards.
Kind of pushes the 155 ever downwards.
4 pot? Watched T reg V6 go through my local auctions couple of weeks back for less than grand. From memory only about 90k up it too. Another tempting, red, V6 Alfa!
For once shed seems to attract some quite positive comments. What is it about Alfas? Fifteen years later, and I'm now on my 2nd 155 and I'd be sad when the time comes to part with it. For an unreliable, uncomfortable expensive dog, it still transports my missus and I about and all for the princely sum of £550 service and repair bills in the last 12 months. A truely tidy reliable 10 year old Italian car and everything works- surely not- and all for £925 (what I paid 12 months ago for a 1997 car).
What's the catch?
What's the catch?
The Alfa 155, the car that that wrecked the BTCC and left it in tatters for years 
- what was the most exciting touring car championship in the world has only just recovered in the last few seasons.
Alfa twisted the homologation rules to allow themselves a large rear spoiler - it came in the boot when you bought the Silverstone edition - and then started winning all the time. Every team eventually did the same, and we were left with a load of over-winged cars that were glued to the track and no longer squirmed around 10 at a time, dancing around, nudging and a shoving through every bend.
As soon as every other car had a wing, and Alfa started losing, they retreated, using their specially homologated extra reverse gears to get them back to Italy and out of the BTCC forever.
Us luck Brits were left with years of boring, strung out, high speed queues, with only Nigel Mansell's guest appearance and major headache at Donnington to entertain us.
Still always wanted one though........
- what was the most exciting touring car championship in the world has only just recovered in the last few seasons. Alfa twisted the homologation rules to allow themselves a large rear spoiler - it came in the boot when you bought the Silverstone edition - and then started winning all the time. Every team eventually did the same, and we were left with a load of over-winged cars that were glued to the track and no longer squirmed around 10 at a time, dancing around, nudging and a shoving through every bend.
As soon as every other car had a wing, and Alfa started losing, they retreated, using their specially homologated extra reverse gears to get them back to Italy and out of the BTCC forever.
Us luck Brits were left with years of boring, strung out, high speed queues, with only Nigel Mansell's guest appearance and major headache at Donnington to entertain us.
Still always wanted one though........
Sold? Damn!! But then on the other hand, desirable as it looks it probably would have ended up costing me the earth, and putting even more strain on my marriage - currently on a 145 after a 146 that some idiot (Italian would you believe??) managed to hit in Cambridge, and although only rear door and wing damage, parts no longer available! But I do love them.
Alfa mad said:
... What is it about Alfas? ...what's the catch?
What is it about Alfas? A quote from "Alfa Romeo Alfetta Gold Portfolio 1972-1987" sums it up for me. Once you've driven one, everything else is like sensory deprivation.
What's the catch? same as above, but from the point of view of an ex - Alfa owner. Ten years on and every car I've owned since has just been transport while I keep looking for my next Alfa.
I think Maybe I should change my name to shed slag as I'm now the proud albeit slightly worried owner of said shed.
MOT is due next week and luckily the Missus works in a motorsport garage so can get any problems sorted fairly cheaply and eaisly, it needs new tyres which are on order, and although Aid said he had a handbrake cable I've ordered one of those as well. Tappets sound a bit rough but I'll get them sorted when I get a full service done, I'll probably change the cams to some lairy spec race jobbies at the same time.
I drove it all the way back home from North wales to the Midlands and it didn't miss a beat, sounds awesome goes well (although not as well as my old TVR) and there doesn't seem to be much wrong with it at all, I'm planning to go down the strip it and cage it route for some track day fun, but just pleased to be having a bit of laugh at the Mo with it, mid life crisis has hit me early, you'll be glad to hear I have a daily driver to use as well.....Just in case.
MOT is due next week and luckily the Missus works in a motorsport garage so can get any problems sorted fairly cheaply and eaisly, it needs new tyres which are on order, and although Aid said he had a handbrake cable I've ordered one of those as well. Tappets sound a bit rough but I'll get them sorted when I get a full service done, I'll probably change the cams to some lairy spec race jobbies at the same time.
I drove it all the way back home from North wales to the Midlands and it didn't miss a beat, sounds awesome goes well (although not as well as my old TVR) and there doesn't seem to be much wrong with it at all, I'm planning to go down the strip it and cage it route for some track day fun, but just pleased to be having a bit of laugh at the Mo with it, mid life crisis has hit me early, you'll be glad to hear I have a daily driver to use as well.....Just in case.
Hold on a minute where are all the 'Alfas are crap, wouldn't touch one with a bargepole' numpties? I get really annoyed when People I know just won't consider Alfas, new or old, because of 'reliability issues'. I have never owned an Alfa but am dead keen on a Junior Zagato, SZ, RZ or a 147 GTA to name a few of them. Grew up with a red 155 round the corner.Thought it was a right motor! Alfas have a certain attention to detail and style that others just cannot match.
KANEIT said:
Hold on a minute where are all the 'Alfas are crap, wouldn't touch one with a bargepole' numpties?
Funny that, where are all the fools do don't say that about Kia, Daewoo, Jeep, Peugeot, Proton, Ssangyong, Suzuki, Tata and Renualt. Oh, hang on, people do say that about Renault!
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