Alfa pix - 6
From the sublime to the ridiculous, we show you
beautiful non originale cars and one from Ecurie Ecrappe
This about covers the range, wouldn't you say? Taken at the 2008 Concorso Italiano, it
shows the LeMons racer of the Ecurie Ecrappe team and some really nice Spiders..
A Ecurie Ecrappe team member wrote this: "Though it may be hard to believe, the seat in
our terrible Ecurie
Ecrappe/Autodenta 24 Hours of LeMons machine was actually sat in
by Fangio. Yes,
THAT Fangio. The lower bucket portion of the seat, which was modified to
include
a headrest to pass LeMons tech, was originally installed in a replica of
Fangio's
1937 Chevrolet sotck car he raced in South America early in his career.
That car is currently
owned by a bay area man who had the bucket seats replaced
with a single bench--he
passed the buckets on to our team. Before the seats were
swapped out, Fangio drove the
'37 replica in an event, imprinting his five-time
World Champion cheeks on the seat that's
now in the LeMons car! ...Ultimately, our VERY humble 1971 Spider has both competition
history
AND a small connection to J.M. Fangio--stuff some of these Ferrari guys would
kill for!"
Jay Mackro's 1965 Sprint GT goes from shell to rolling sculpture. We're not biased in favor of red GT's or anything. Not us. No siree.
Jay fabricated a very nice luggage shelf for the GT's back seat and made sure that the 2L motor under the hood looked good, too.
Ahhh, Giulia, looking fine parked alongside southern California's historic Ortega Highway. Unhood is also a treat. The 1963
Spider's motor has bored liners & 1750 pistons, giving it 1650cc; Webers with Weiand air filters; late model tranny: & more.
The 1982 Spider of Damon Ladson, who lives in Maryland. He says the VW, owned by his sister-in-law is also non originale.
Glenn Ackermann's '86 Graduate. He writes: "I live in California, in the Bay Area, but on a good day
in the Wine Country I can
pretend that I’m in Tuscany or Umbria.
Actually, the wine is generally better here but that’s a whole ‘nother
issue.."
Ron Taylor, from Australia, shares photos of his GTV V-6 and 1986 Spider, which the factory sent to Australia for its right-hand-drive
conversion. Ron writes: "All the injection stuff is gone, wireing harness computers etc ; and interestingly two things are
possible with this change : you can retain the injection head with a small modification ; and use a Euro 105 inlet manifold.
Things that I was told you couldn't do. Of course the computer ignition goes too so I replaced that with a Bosch electronic
setup. I've learned one other thing with all this messing around ; an electric fan mounted in the engine bay sucking is much
more efficient than one put in front of the radiator blowing. In front of the radiator the fan must block the air flow, Spiders in
our heat have marginal cooling! ( Of course the howling original fan works OK but then we don't like original !!)"
When last heard from Rolf was threatening to put a SNO sticker on his single racing scull, which he rows out of Vancouver Rowing Club. We'd like to see that! He says the scull is a classic, with dark mahogany wood and clear decking.
Left: The pristine Alfa 75 of the Rev. Graham Middleton, Barrie, Ontario. Definitely the most cool ministerial car I've seen in my 60+ years of church involvement. Rev on Rev! Right: Robert Landman writes, "I do hate red Alfas," but this is SNO so we welcome him anyway. Besides, Robert has several GT's including this 1968 1300 Jr he bought in Holland ... and we love GTs.
Graham Allan, from Christchurch, New Zealand, bought this 1969 GT Jr, which looks pretty good in the top
left photo. In reality, it needed -- and is getting -- a full-on restoration. Can't wait to see the pix of it when it's done.
