RE: Shed of the Week | Alfa Romeo 164 V6 Lusso

[CrutyRammers]

Bought one about 10 years back for £360 off the bay, tuned & rebuilt the engine & put it in my Dax. Superb engines, though I was never a fan of these boxy 90s saloons.

[Blackpuddin]

Shed is now sold.

[maxstef]

Fantastic cars I had three many many years ago including a Cloverleaf version. They were so different to the humdrum Germanic offerings and all three did me proud and I was more than happy to put up with the usual warning lights on the dash that always ended up being false alarms. The 164 will always be remembered for its fantastic styling and wonderful engine and my current Giulia Cloverleaf has some of its DNA

[deadtom]

Did those heating controls ever go into the 155?

When I was a kid my friend's dad had an Alfa Romeo:

it had a V6
It had black leather seats
it had a sport button
It had that distinctive HVAC system
it was a cloverleaf model
i think it was a '95 model M reg

but when I picture it in my mind, I see the 155. However, the pictures of the 155 dash are definitely wrong.

Help me, O' PH Alfisti

[Tallow]

deadtom said:

Did those heating controls ever go into the 155?

When I was a kid my friend's dad had an Alfa Romeo:

it had a V6
It had black leather seats
it had a sport button
It had that distinctive HVAC system
it was a cloverleaf model
i think it was a '95 model M reg

but when I picture it in my mind, I see the 155. However, the pictures of the 155 dash are definitely wrong.

Help me, O' PH Alfisti

The buttons were definitely different in the 155. I had a 155 Super and it had digital climate with a lot less buttons that that (and more vertical, too). I'll see if I have any pictures anywhere.

I think the lower spec 155s just had old school dials.

ETA Here you go. Not my car, just taken from Google Images, but it was the same on mine, so presumably common to any 155 with that option.

Edited by Tallow on Thursday 8th August 13:53

[HaydnW]

deadtom said:

Did those heating controls ever go into the 155?

When I was a kid my friend's dad had an Alfa Romeo:

it had a V6
It had black leather seats
it had a sport button
It had that distinctive HVAC system
it was a cloverleaf model
i think it was a '95 model M reg

but when I picture it in my mind, I see the 155. However, the pictures of the 155 dash are definitely wrong.

Help me, O' PH Alfisti

I'd say 100% a 164

[deadtom]

HaydnW said:

I'd say 100% a 164

googling pictures of the cloverleaf model and it looks a lot more familiar to the way I remember it in red on black paint, so I think you're right

Strange how paint colour can so dramatically change the way a car looks; in red on black it looks great, but to me at least this SOTW looks fugly and ungainly

[deadtom]

[quote=Tallow]

The buttons were definitely different in the 155. I had a 155 Super and it had digital climate with a lot less buttons that that (and more vertical, too). I'll see if I have any pictures anywhere.

I think the lower spec 155s just had old school dials.

ETA Here you go. Not my car, just taken from Google Images, but it was the same on mine, so presumably common to any 155 with that option.

Edited by Tallow on Thursday 8th August 13:53

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thanks, that's definitely not the heater control setup i remember from my youth