Photo History of a Mildly Addicted Alfista, 1966 to present
 
   
Before and after photos of my first Alfa, a 1959 Spider Nearly Normale. Photos taken circa 1966. The new paint job
doesn't show well in the far right photo of the top row, but it's metallic silver.  Anyone know what happened to my old
Spider, California license NDS 576? Note that while it was only seven years old in '66, poor little Giulietta had suffered
a dinged in front, cancer of the paint on most surfaces, and the interior was shot. Fortunately, it was in excellent
mechanical condition.


   
Photos taken just after I bought the 1967 GTV that's plastered all over these pages.  The paint went from
the original appliance white (Bianco Spino) to BMW Baltic Blue a few months later, in 1984. It's now 501 red.  



 
I bought this GTC in 1983, stripped it, then took it to a place that dipped the entire shell in a chemical stripper. That's about as far as I got before becoming sidetracked on the restoration of a '67 GTV. Above on the right is the only photo I have showing how to keep three Alfas in a standard two-car garage: make one levitate (that's it hanging over the 1971 Spider).  The GTC was finally restored in southern California in 2003 or 2004, after changing hands at least twice more. Honest folks, it really is more cost effective to purchase the best car you can afford, rather a beater that needs everything. Just not as
much fun.