Alfa Super Giulia: PH Carpool
This PHer has found a keeper he can pass on to his son
Car: 1973 Alfa 105 Super Guilia 2.0
Owned since: March 2015
Previous cars: Mk1 Escort two-door 1300 sport, Mini 1000, Vauxhall Magnum 2.3, Fiat 127, numerous rep sheds, 145 Cloverleaf, 190e 2.3 Cosworth, MX-5, 911SC, 996 C4S, 997 C2S, Golf GTI & Mk7 R, Cayman 2.7, E92 M3, WRX STi - to name a few!
What I wished I'd known: "How much attention it gets, in a nice way - every drive without fail gets a wave, drive-by photo or questions at the petrol station. Changing the look with a fast road kit has made parking so heavy, I really have to think about getting boxed in when parking on a street. The match of a 2.0 with a 1.6 differential gives it great performance (relative) but 65 mph+ cruising is a little buzzy on the ears."
Things I hate: "The doors are a bugger to close since we replaced the rubber seals and the cabin gets very warm. The petrol filler and locking fuel cap is designed for Houdini, I have scratched 2 good watches whilst trying to twist wrist and hand whilst bent double at the pumps, not a good look. Sorry, what headlights! Nothing to hate, just saying..."
Where I've been: "Mostly runs around Essex, Suffolk, and Norfolk, there are some great roads locally that suit the car fine. A few runs up to London and whilst I was in-between everyday cars, a round trip to Cheltenham and Northamptonshire. Never missed a beat, the only issue was the slow wipers that meant a drive in the rain was interesting, so a new motor and now it is an all-weather car. I think a change of diff would open up some longer drives, though again the motorway is not its ideal home so maybe I'll just keep to the back roads."
What's next: "I'd love to have the money to drop it off at Alfaholics, and spec it out as a daily driver with loads of their mods, but (a) don't have the money and (b) it just wouldn't be the treat it is now to just go for a blast. So, have a Pipercross to go on, will replace the threadbare carpets and add some new sound-deadening to just make the ride that little bit more relaxing - hopefully enough to convince myself a run to Le Mans makes sense! Still, can't decide whether the bumpers should remain on or off - they do look good off and give it a clean finish to the lines, but it is pretty standard and that chrome does shine - what do the readers think?"
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I bought a Super Giulia 2.0 last July, when I was on holidays in Germany. My girlfriend bought a Lovely Planet Book 'Italian Roadtrips'. I thought, that we need a proper car for this trip.
Same day I was looking at mobile.de, there was this yellow Giulia in Stuttgart, at a private Alfa Enthusiast. I bought a Junior almost two times some years back, but I never had enough space inside.
I went there and bought it. I was driving it for the whole holiday, two weeks, all the way to Austria. I fell in love.
Two weeks back I was in Germany on a friends wedding, because I showed up in this car, it became the wedding car. I never had that positive feedback on a car before.
Now its parked in a shed and waiting for me to return next summer to give it a go.
The fuel consumption was 7l/100km.
Robert
Would moving the striker plates out a couple of mm help with the door closing, or is it one of those where you have to leave the quarterlight open to relieve the air pressure? I seem to remember an old 124 SpecialT being a bit like that!
Bought one back in the late 90's to try my hand at historic rallying.
Was great fun right up to the moment I hit something rather hard in Wales!
Sadly put the whole nearside out of kilter and that was the end of that.
It still lives (not with me) albeit as parts now donated across a number of other cars.
Bought one back in the late 90's to try my hand at historic rallying.
Was great fun right up to the moment I hit something rather hard in Wales!
Sadly put the whole nearside out of kilter and that was the end of that.
It still lives (not with me) albeit as parts now donated across a number of other cars.
Great little car though, I had to convert it to a single twin choke Solex to make it eligible for some of the events I was doing which taught me to read the regs in future! Swapped the engine for a rebuilt 1570 and fitted a Harvey Bailey/Koni kit plus an LSD. It had an appetite for brake master cylinders from memory but it never let me down and I was heartbroken when I bashed it.
After that I converted to Volvo on the basis that if I hit something else, I'd possibly come off better!
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