Now to pull the old rear end to make way for the new, modified 105 rear end with 4.10 diff and a 54% lockup LSD.
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Making headway on my Sprint. The front end is done, Alfaholics racing springs, Konis, and monster Alfaholics front anti sway bar.
Now to pull the old rear end to make way for the new, modified 105 rear end with 4.10 diff and a 54% lockup LSD.
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Seems like the fun cars are coming out of the garage this summer. What a sweet shape this one has!
1972 Alfa Romeo GTV 2000 - $20000
Selling my '72 Alfa GTV 2000. Owned ElGouda for about 5 years. She spent all this time in Yuma, AZ where it was barely used while I was stationed overseas the past 3 of those years. It shipped from Scottsdale (where Rex from Alfa Sport) worked on her to get her ready on return. I just spent about $4K (2 weeks ago). ElGouda was previously kept in the same family in Thousand Oaks, CA since 1978. The ElGouda name came about from the PO, who inherited the car from a family member who passed away. She passed at a very young age and loved cheese. I kept it for obvious reasons.
It's been a west coast car it's entire life until last Monday. I just drove her nearly 5 hours from Quantico to Philly so yes, the car is is good running condition. 3 years ago I rebuilt the engine, including new clutch, pistons, rotors, plugs, wires, etc...Spent over $10k on the car since I purchase it. She still needs some attention though...the good news it that she doesn't have rust anywhere except for on the backside of the hood. There's also a hole in the passenger side floor board (foot area) where I placed the jack in the wrong spot and it punched through. Easy fix, just know that coming in she is not perfect. If you're good with cars or just learning, this is a good one to learn from because it's very small and doesn't require any electronics to troubleshoot. Has the SPICA, DOHC, disc brakes, 5 speed manual. Extremely rare car. Perhaps 2-5 for sale in the America at any given time and the value's rising fast. Gotta sell her... instead of renting, we decided to buy a house in Manayunk. Odometer didn't work when I purchase her, and still doesn't but it reads about 98k on the 5 digit reading. Could be 98k or 198k, but I bet it's closer to 98k because, well, it's an Alfa. Truly beautiful and rare car, made in Milan, designed by Bertone. Clean AZ title. Front bumper and various items are currently in military storage and will arrive in the next month or so. When they do, they're all yours as well. $20,000.
Car was hit in the back left before I purchased her, so the filling the shops used wasn't set properly causing a few cracks in the paint. This updated posting is more detailed then my "shotgun" post a few days ago. I've received over 30 interests in this car I'd prefer to not contact each one to share this additional information so I'm updating the post.
Current issues, brakes pull a little to the right when used. Typical Alfa pause needed when shifting from 1-2 gear. Reverse works great. Hole in floor board as disproved above.
If you think this is a $40k GTV and I'm the crazy guy selling it for $20k so you can sell her tomorrow for $40k, then please keep looking. This is not that car. This is a $20k Alfa GTV 2000. This car taught me a lot, made me smile, made me curse and then made me smile again. I hope she does the same for you (with less cursing of course).Leave a comment:
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..or this one....
"Hi All,
My 1978 Spider race car is for sale. It has one race on a complete update on body, drive train and engine. I have aged out of the sport. This car has an SVRA annual tech ended June 30, 2017. I ran a 1:51 at Mid Ohio last weekend, with the bus stop and on old tires. I am asking $29K negotiable. Please no low ball offers. See the attached fact sheet. Car is in Dayton OH. Call Bob Colaizzi 937 477 5530.
Bob"
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It has the feel of something that was kept inside. If the miles are real, that's good (although change all the rubber etc if it's been sitting). Check under the chrome at the rear hatch window and the windshield / cowling for rust.
My experience from Alfas of this era is that those guys who knew what they were doing and loved them, they were set up well and were fast and handled well, but they weren't too worried about a showroom clean engine and maybe they didn't wash it often - they just drove them.Leave a comment:
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I like it.
Do cars rust badly in Philadelphia? Check very carefully - Alfettas rust. Engine compartment is grimy, but should clean up. Little chrome bumpers, kept up it seems. Nice price if no rust IMO.
With the right wheels and height, those can look really good.
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Interesting one for sale:::
1976 Alfa Romeo Alfetta GT - $4000 (Downingtown)
1976 Alfa Romeo Alfetta GT. 77k miles. Trying to downsize the number of car projects I have. Current Pa antique tags. Runs and drives but needs some minor work to really be roadworthy. Has a low mileage engine (65k) with alquatti cams, dual sidedraft dellortos, header, and Ansa exhaust. Needs carbs cleaned and adjusted. Recent brake master cyl, & clutch master cyl. New water pump, BWA mags & steering wheel. Euro bumpers, car was lowered with GTV6 front torsion bars & rear springs. Body is rust free, very nice interior with the original 'early' door panels, headliner & rare Behr AC. Dash is still uncracked. Descent paint with some minor dings & scratches. Hood & roof do need waxed. A very solid car with a bunch of rare period performance upgrades. I don't think you'll find another one like it. Cash only in person. Please no scammers. I can transfer the 'antique tag' to the new owner if you want.
** I also have a parts car of the same year that can go with it if your interested.Leave a comment:
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Oh right....this was a debuild actually. So we have every single trim piece. My pops and I stripped the car of anything we could and trashed the shell. It suffered serious frame damage on top of an engine fire. At 167k+ miles, I think she lived a good life.
That was my moms. My dads is red and doing much much better, albeit disassembled. But still.
Pops informed me we will possibly rebuild his this winter! (He turboed his spider once out of warrantee)
Teaser (and a photo of the good angle of the blue one)
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I made some progress over the weekend. I got my whole front suspension refreshed, no more Sprint on stilts.
The new front sway bar is no joke...
The passenger side front suspension all redone. I found pitting in both front wheel bearings on that side so I wasn't able to get the hub assembled.
In other news, the custom modified 105 rear end has been ordered. The diff is a 4.10 LSD with a 54% lockup. That should be done by the middle of July.
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That will be a VERY large hole in the ground into which you will throw mountains of $$$$$$$$. Knowing that, perhaps it might be worth building that into a race car and forgetting about all the missing trim pieces and other hard to find bits.
Good luck with that rebuild.
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