The Alfa Thread

[LateFan]

In honor of the E30 picnic, these are from the national convention on the east coast…

[LateFan]

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[BlackbirdM3]

Nice.

[LateFan]

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[E30_Pare]

^done a couple gtv6s with plexi windows. Always thought they were funky cool.

[flyboyx]

my favorite attainable alfas are gtv's and and gtv6's. i dream of doing a 24v swap with a 164 engine.

i don't know if that engine would fit a gtv but i have heard of it already being done to the gtv6.

in fact, this one looks like a good candidate: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Alfa-Romeo-G...m=261948443833

i guess i need to join an alfa romeo forum.

[Trptguy]

i need an alpha in my life, great thread!

[LateFan]

It's an "Alfa", silly! They won't let you buy one if you can't spell it right.

"Alfa Romeo was founded in Portello, just north of Milan, in 1910. Cav Ugo Stella, managing director of a Portello assembly plant for the Darracq, a French automobile, decided to organize a group to purchase the plant and build a car more suitable for the harsh and mountainous Italian roads. Along with a few Milanese businessmen, he took out a loan to purchase the Darracq plant. The group named itself the Lombardy Car Manufacturing Company (Societa Anonima Lombarda Fabbrica Automobili) and soon was known by its initials—ALFA."

"...in 1915 the company was acquired, suddenly and surprisingly, by Nicola Romeo. From rather humble beginnings, Romeo had graduated from the University of Liège with a degree in electrical engineering. After working for a short time in Germany and then France, he returned to his native Italy and started a business in Milan in association with the American company Ingersoll-Rand."

"...Fortunately, Romeo was also a motoring enthusiast and had always dreamed of making a prestigious Italian sports car. As a result, he immediately expanded the production facilities at the ALFA factory in Portello. In February 1918, he changed the name of the firm to Società Anonima Italiana Ing. Nicola Romeo & Company. In addition, he decided to place his own name next to the well-respected ALFA name on the company’s radiator badge, and after 1918 all the firm’s cars appeared with “Alfa Romeo” on the hood."

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This is why you hear old Alfa guys talking about "the Portello works."

The great tragedy of being acquired by Fiat way back when was they shut down the Alfa engineering department, which is where all those great engines and chassis came from. The Busso V6 in the GTV6 was the last of those engines, and the Milano / 75 the last of those in-house engineered sports cars.

It's just now, with the formation of this Ferrari engineer-staffed "skunk works", that these new interesting engines have started to emerge.



Flyboy - it's been done, tight fit. Also a Montreal V8 stuffed in there, since the Montreal was a 105 chassis as well.

That black one looks faded but solid...?

The Alfetta / GTV6 forum...

http://www.alfabb.com/bb/forums/alfetta-gtv6-1972-1986/

Various Alfa engine conversions forum...

http://www.alfabb.com/bb/forums/engine-conversions/

[flyboyx]

It's an "Alfa", silly! They won't let you buy one if you can't spell it right.

"Alfa Romeo was founded in Portello, just north of Milan, in 1910. Cav Ugo Stella, managing director of a Portello assembly plant for the Darracq, a French automobile, decided to organize a group to purchase the plant and build a car more suitable for the harsh and mountainous Italian roads. Along with a few Milanese businessmen, he took out a loan to purchase the Darracq plant. The group named itself the Lombardy Car Manufacturing Company (Societa Anonima Lombarda Fabbrica Automobili) and soon was known by its initials—ALFA."

"...in 1915 the company was acquired, suddenly and surprisingly, by Nicola Romeo. From rather humble beginnings, Romeo had graduated from the University of Liège with a degree in electrical engineering. After working for a short time in Germany and then France, he returned to his native Italy and started a business in Milan in association with the American company Ingersoll-Rand."

"...Fortunately, Romeo was also a motoring enthusiast and had always dreamed of making a prestigious Italian sports car. As a result, he immediately expanded the production facilities at the ALFA factory in Portello. In February 1918, he changed the name of the firm to Società Anonima Italiana Ing. Nicola Romeo & Company. In addition, he decided to place his own name next to the well-respected ALFA name on the company’s radiator badge, and after 1918 all the firm’s cars appeared with “Alfa Romeo” on the hood."

al-fa row-MAY-oh

This is why you hear old Alfa guys talking about "the Portello works."

The great tragedy of being acquired by Fiat way back when was they shut down the Alfa engineering department, which is where all those great engines and chassis came from. The Busso V6 in the GTV6 was the last of those engines, and the Milano / 75 the last of those in-house engineered sports cars.

It's just now, with the formation of this Ferrari engineer-staffed "skunk works", that these new interesting engines have started to emerge.



Flyboy - it's been done, tight fit. Also a Montreal V8 stuffed in there, since the Montreal was a 105 chassis as well.

That black one looks faded but solid...?

The Alfetta / GTV6 forum...

http://www.alfabb.com/bb/forums/alfetta-gtv6-1972-1986/

Various Alfa engine conversions forum...
http://www.alfabb.com/bb/forums/engine-conversions/

you da man late fan!

[LateFan]

The factory built some Alfetta GTs with the Montreal V8...






An Alfetta GT with a Montreal V8 conversion...



A 105 GTV with a Montreal V8 conversion...

[flyboyx]

thats so cool. keep them coming. i was doing some research on that engine. i would imagine finding one would be pretty difficult. i was surprised to see its only 200 hp. i guess its only 2.5 liters. i would probably still opt for the 164's 24v fuel injected engine at around 240hp. i presume it would be a lot easier to find.

were gtv;s and alfeta's deleon style drivetrain like the gtv-6?

[2mAn]

I want a Giulia badly

[AwakenNoMore]

I want a Giulia badly

Same here, black or red. I don't think I've wanted another sedan more than I want that car.

[Wschnitz]

I think we all want giulias lol.

[2mAn]

I watched two drag race each other at the recent petrolicious rally that I broke my car at. It was beautiful and hilarious at the same time