RE: Alfa Romeo Alfasud | Spotted
Discussion
griffdude said:
Through Ti Alfasuds has twin headlights?
An ex girlfriend had a 1.5 Cloverleaf & it was a great drive. Lovely revvy engine.
I had a few of these and loved them, especially the 1.5 and then 1.7 sprints, I had a few 33 Ti after they were fun but no where near as good to drive as the sud.An ex girlfriend had a 1.5 Cloverleaf & it was a great drive. Lovely revvy engine.
This car is not a Ti, as per the advert description its a 1.5 Sud Gold Cloverleaf, these have 95 bhp v's 105 of the Ti and they looked a lot less sporty in/out but were still lovely to drive, the steering, gearing, suspension etc made them so much fun to drive, and once they were more than 5 years old they were great to buy as so cheap due to rust putting everyone off them. So if you found a rust free one, they were still really cheap.
At the time I remember having a Sud like this, a Delta 1.6 GT, and XR3i at the same time and my mum had a Golf gti mk2 8v so used to drive them all back to back and compare. The Sud was more involving to drive, not as quick as the Golf Gti or XR3i but more fun.
I had a few of these in my yoof, and am moving to Spain next year -this caught my eye
https://www.autoscout24.com/offers/alfa-romeo-alfe...
https://www.autoscout24.com/offers/alfa-romeo-alfe...
This is mine. Found it online in Melbourne Australia during lockdown and had it shipped to the UK. I had 3 in the early 1980s and this is just as good to drive today as they were then (although the brakes do feel dated). In the meantime I have had some wonderful cars including Integrale and 993RS, and currently an Alpine. The Sud remains an all time great in terms of the way it drives. This is a Series 1 1.2Ti, with a 1.7 twin carb from a 33, which cures the original car's lack of grunt totally!
BTW, they did sell a 4 door 1.5Ti, but only in South Africa.
When I was 17 I had an Italian girlfriend whose Mum had a white 1.5 Ti Sud. She used to let me drive it once I'd passed my test, and I absolutely fell for it immediately. It was old and rusty, but so what. It was brilliant fun. My car was a Mk1 Escort 1100...what a difference. My God. Then, girlfriend's Dad buys her Mum a new car. A Mk 3 Escort 1.6L. And so he wants to sell the Sud. I gather all my resources (this is 1987 and I'm still in the Sixth Form), and I have...£400. So I offer Mr Dad this princely sum, and he rejects it, saying he won't take less than £600. I was crushed. Then, next day, my girlfriend is driving it to school, and BAM. She rear ends someone in traffic whilst rummaging in her handbag. The car is a write off, and they're only insured TPF&T. It goes to the scrapyard and is destroyed. I think he got £50 for it as scrap. Fuming, I was.
I still haven't got over the loss.
I still haven't got over the loss.
Someone stole the offside wing mirror off my 1.5Ti parked outside my house in East Barnet. When I went to buy one, I found out why. Fortunately, at the time I was travelling to Milan a lot for work, so I bought one there for much less money.
[Thinks][Goes and looks]Yep. I still have the original genuine Alfa Romeo workshop manual for it.
[Thinks][Goes and looks]Yep. I still have the original genuine Alfa Romeo workshop manual for it.
Theraveda said:
Someone stole the offside wing mirror off my 1.5Ti parked outside my house in East Barnet. When I went to buy one, I found out why. Fortunately, at the time I was travelling to Milan a lot for work, so I bought one there for much less money.
[Thinks][Goes and looks]Yep. I still have the original genuine Alfa Romeo workshop manual for it.
Someone stole the ignition coil from my 1.5Ti parked outside my house in Crouch End. They prised up the corner of the bonnet, creasing it in the process. The car wouldn't start, and then I noticed I could see the corner of the bonnet from the drivers's seat. I wasn't happy.[Thinks][Goes and looks]Yep. I still have the original genuine Alfa Romeo workshop manual for it.
I still have the Haynes manual for it - but I can't match a genuine Alfa workshop manual.
GVO said:
This is mine. Found it online in Melbourne Australia during lockdown and had it shipped to the UK. I had 3 in the early 1980s and this is just as good to drive today as they were then (although the brakes do feel dated). In the meantime I have had some wonderful cars including Integrale and 993RS, and currently an Alpine. The Sud remains an all time great in terms of the way it drives. This is a Series 1 1.2Ti, with a 1.7 twin carb from a 33, which cures the original car's lack of grunt totally!
BTW, they did sell a 4 door 1.5Ti, but only in South Africa.
AC43 said:
GVO said:
This is mine. Found it online in Melbourne Australia during lockdown and had it shipped to the UK. I had 3 in the early 1980s and this is just as good to drive today as they were then (although the brakes do feel dated). In the meantime I have had some wonderful cars including Integrale and 993RS, and currently an Alpine. The Sud remains an all time great in terms of the way it drives. This is a Series 1 1.2Ti, with a 1.7 twin carb from a 33, which cures the original car's lack of grunt totally!
BTW, they did sell a 4 door 1.5Ti, but only in South Africa.
I absolutely love it.
Yes I think quad headlamps look better, but the car over all is superb.
My friend had a cloverleaf, and it was the sweetest handling thing around at the time.
£20k is quite a lot, but when you look at what certain Ford's are fetching, and most are not as desirable or actually as good in many ways, as these, then this is actually priced right.
Yes I think quad headlamps look better, but the car over all is superb.
My friend had a cloverleaf, and it was the sweetest handling thing around at the time.
£20k is quite a lot, but when you look at what certain Ford's are fetching, and most are not as desirable or actually as good in many ways, as these, then this is actually priced right.
Here’s a ‘Sud that might give an indication to correct market levels:
https://www.silverstoneauctions.com/sa078b-lot-174...
https://www.silverstoneauctions.com/sa078b-lot-174...
Edited by soxboy on Tuesday 1st March 20:28
soxboy said:
Here’s a ‘Sud that might give an indication to correct market levels:
https://www.silverstoneauctions.com/sa078b-lot-174...
That’s a nicer car in a better colour.https://www.silverstoneauctions.com/sa078b-lot-174...
robemcdonald said:
AC43 said:
GVO said:
This is mine. Found it online in Melbourne Australia during lockdown and had it shipped to the UK. I had 3 in the early 1980s and this is just as good to drive today as they were then (although the brakes do feel dated). In the meantime I have had some wonderful cars including Integrale and 993RS, and currently an Alpine. The Sud remains an all time great in terms of the way it drives. This is a Series 1 1.2Ti, with a 1.7 twin carb from a 33, which cures the original car's lack of grunt totally!
BTW, they did sell a 4 door 1.5Ti, but only in South Africa.
A 1.2 Ti was my first car. Loved driving it but alas several months later I had to move it with a broom.
I lost one of the rear wheels one night coming back from the pub and it disappeared into the woods. I had to go back the next morning to find it. In some bizarre twist of fate it happened right outside the house I'm living in now.
I lost one of the rear wheels one night coming back from the pub and it disappeared into the woods. I had to go back the next morning to find it. In some bizarre twist of fate it happened right outside the house I'm living in now.
PistonBroker said:
TWPC said:
He bought an Alfasud 1.3 Ti in 1978 to back up our existing SAAB 99L - quite a respectable seventies garage . . .
I was gutted when he bought the Saab! A 99L 2 Door Saloon, he kept it getting on for twenty years two, only swapping it for a 900!
I so loved the thought of the Sud, would have been happy with the Beta too.
I had a 1978 1.3Ti as student transport in 1988-9. DJN 664T cost me £300 with a completely undeserved 12 months MoT. I did about 12,000 miles in it.
Highlights:
Driving through the Tyne Tunnel with the driver's window open, dropping it into 3rd and flooring it just for the sound.
Late night drive through mid Wales on empty roads, totally "in the zone" stringing together an endless series of S-bends.
Just getting behind the wheel, that lovely dash design with two big dials in front of you. Revs, speed, road... what else did you need?
Lowlights:
Driving much too fast five up on a farm track, bottomed it out on a cattle grid and punched a hole in the sump. Araldited a square cut from a beer can over the hole. Still holding oil six months later.
Loading up boxes of books and stuff onto the back seat at the end of term, hearing a strange cracking noise and finding one of the sills had parted company with the rear quarter panel. Welded back together with an arc welder. I got really good at welding thin metal with a stick.
Finding it had a scored brake disc which ate pads. Inboard discs on these puppies, changing it looked way too scary. All four pads were the same shape so I bought a box and changed one pad every 2,000 miles.
With a week left on the MoT I sold it in the dark, in the rain, to a man wearing a hat. He didn't look at it much, just asked "is it fast" and "does it always start". I lied about the first as some horses had definitely gone missing lately, but could honestly tell him it hadn't let me down. Back home for the holidays and two policemen turned up at the door. "Are you the owner of..." Turned out it had been used to rob a post office in Abingdon. It is still on the DVLA computer, one of the legion of "ghost cars" which exist only in DVLA's imagination.
Highlights:
Driving through the Tyne Tunnel with the driver's window open, dropping it into 3rd and flooring it just for the sound.
Late night drive through mid Wales on empty roads, totally "in the zone" stringing together an endless series of S-bends.
Just getting behind the wheel, that lovely dash design with two big dials in front of you. Revs, speed, road... what else did you need?
Lowlights:
Driving much too fast five up on a farm track, bottomed it out on a cattle grid and punched a hole in the sump. Araldited a square cut from a beer can over the hole. Still holding oil six months later.
Loading up boxes of books and stuff onto the back seat at the end of term, hearing a strange cracking noise and finding one of the sills had parted company with the rear quarter panel. Welded back together with an arc welder. I got really good at welding thin metal with a stick.
Finding it had a scored brake disc which ate pads. Inboard discs on these puppies, changing it looked way too scary. All four pads were the same shape so I bought a box and changed one pad every 2,000 miles.
With a week left on the MoT I sold it in the dark, in the rain, to a man wearing a hat. He didn't look at it much, just asked "is it fast" and "does it always start". I lied about the first as some horses had definitely gone missing lately, but could honestly tell him it hadn't let me down. Back home for the holidays and two policemen turned up at the door. "Are you the owner of..." Turned out it had been used to rob a post office in Abingdon. It is still on the DVLA computer, one of the legion of "ghost cars" which exist only in DVLA's imagination.
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