Alfa 33 - yes or no?
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I would have loved an Alfa Sud but scarcity and rocketing prices for survivors mean as wouldn’t love one *that* much.
A 33 seems a good compromise. Ideally I’d like an early 1.5 Green Cloverleaf but I don’t know that there are enough around to be fussy. What do people think of them and are there any obvious watch-outs when buying?
A 33 seems a good compromise. Ideally I’d like an early 1.5 Green Cloverleaf but I don’t know that there are enough around to be fussy. What do people think of them and are there any obvious watch-outs when buying?
I know what you mean. I live in this deluded fantasy world where, by word of mouth, I will hear of a Black series 2 Sud 1.5 Ti of about 1982 vintage sitting in the heated motorhouse of a retired Major who has owned it from new and who meticulously mothballed it when he gave up driving twenty years ago.
As solid as a rock and pin-sharp beneath its protective wax, it needs only straightforward mechanical recommissioning after its 30k miles of light use in the run-up to its hibernation.
He’s selling it for a song of course because all he cares about is that it goes to the right sort of chap...
Back in the real world, thanks for the view. I actually don’t mind the look of the pre-facelift 33s but just don’t know what they’re like to live with
As solid as a rock and pin-sharp beneath its protective wax, it needs only straightforward mechanical recommissioning after its 30k miles of light use in the run-up to its hibernation.
He’s selling it for a song of course because all he cares about is that it goes to the right sort of chap...
Back in the real world, thanks for the view. I actually don’t mind the look of the pre-facelift 33s but just don’t know what they’re like to live with
lockhart flawse said:
I used to live in Clapham and bought a 33 Permanent (Ha!) 4 from the trader at the Triangle on Clapham Common - he's gone now. It was certainly an unlucky car and remains to this day the worst car I have owned. Apart from everything else, which included epic unreliability, they were very hard to parallel park.
I keep my cars a long time and am on my 5th Alfa but it's no to the 33 from me.
Crikey - that was a long time ago; that - very dodgy - car lot has been gone for the best part of 25 years. They had a tie up with the Citroen dealership on the High Road where the gym now is to sell all their dodgy trade-ins.I keep my cars a long time and am on my 5th Alfa but it's no to the 33 from me.
You may also recall that Moxley Frankl, the architects practice on the High Road in the old swimming baths building, used to have a number of Alfa 33s as company cars
lockhart flawse said:
Indeed - they were the previous owners of my car.
I got it inspected by a supposed Alfa specialist towards Brixton who gave it a clean bill of health but the 4 x 4 system never worked properly.
I flogged it 12 months later and bought a 164 from Ramponi Rockell which is one of the best cars I ever owned and the only one I would like to own again.
Ramponi used to look after my brother's 164 back in the day!I got it inspected by a supposed Alfa specialist towards Brixton who gave it a clean bill of health but the 4 x 4 system never worked properly.
I flogged it 12 months later and bought a 164 from Ramponi Rockell which is one of the best cars I ever owned and the only one I would like to own again.
Presumably the Alfa 'specialist' was that odd place in what looked like an old stable on Acre Lane? They were real cowboys who f
ked up the handbrake drum on my Fulvia.I think they only survived because Martin Buckley used to take all his Italian cars there
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