Alfa Romeo need help

Hallo,
Alfa's Suck, I can beat any of them with my Mid 1980's Yugo.
Plus, you may want to go to a site that actually is for cars and not boats.

They don't float well. And its hard to put a mast on it!

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but...it's missing one hull

In the past they have been in a competition with Jaguar to build the most unreliable pos on the roads

Tiger Mike

Correction.

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Rick

Please Dad, Let us feed the Troll, Please Please??

Have any of you owned an Alfa or a Jaguar?

Actually.... NO!

Which means it's time for the old British car joke:

Question: Why do the British drink warm beer?

Answer: Their refrigerators are made by Lucas.

Alfa's Suck, I can beat any of them with my Mid 1980's Yugo.

A guy walks into a parts store and says he wants an alternater for a Yugo.
The guy behind the counter says "fair trade"

George Lucas (not the Star Wars guy), the Prince of Darkness.

I own one. 1995 164LS. Great car, and still more beautiful than almost anything else out there.

Ford GT
Lambo Countach
Mini Cooper S
Mazda Miata
Trek Y66

I'm a Maserati person myself, but an older Jag is a beautiful sight.

'85 Rx-7 GSL-SE
'00 Nissan Frontier Crew Cab
'82 Toyota Tercel (4WD!)
'84 Rx-7
'82 Rx-7

The '84 and '82 are about to start looking for a new home since the GSL-SE entered my stable (I had a very nice '88 RX-7 convertible several years ago before someone flew across the median on the freeway and landed on their roof in front of me).

To my way of thinking a “letter box” red, 1955 MG TF was the last

true

sports car ever made (by the traditionalists definition of a

sports car) and the most

beautiful

.
Even today it is

without peer

as the greatest

chick magnet

ever made, leaving all other makes in it's wake for that achievement. It is still one of the

nicest and sexiest

cars to cruise the

highways and by ways

in (particularly with the top down and a

stunning" girl next to you), for some reason, girls just love to ride with a man in a TF
One thing that the Italians managed to do better than most, if not all others with Alpha Romero’s was to build in rust in places that couldn’t be removed, straight from the factory, (that has been my experience with several different models over many years) but they do drive nicely, when parts don’t rust and fall away at unexpected and embarrassing times.

For me, just about the most beautiful car ever on the road is the Lamborghini Miura...

Jags - original E-Type, XK-120, some of the racing models... All rate high.

Owned a 73 Alpha Romeo Spider. It was a fun car and never really gave me any problems after we switched the ignition to Bosch. My father had a 72 Jag E- Type I believe this was the last year for the 6-cylinder engine that was far more reliable than the others. Speaking from that era, there was a big misunderstanding about these cars, they had small very powerful engines that needed to be tweaked and tuned on regular business. Having these engines they needed to be ran and ran hard.

To keep this on a sailing thread, I believe the both of them could haul and waterlogged Hobie 21 with power to spare.

Its funny how a BOT can start a thread that is now two pages long.

I noticed another bot has created another thread. Seems like the server is having issues.

nija edit: Now officially three pages long.

No kidding. The De Tomaso Pantera was famous for the rear wheelwells rotting out.

No - thank god! To the guy who

corrected

my post - yep - they have made some fantastic shapes. The owner of my company is right into old Jags and agrees that they are anything but reliable!

Much prefer classic muscle cars myself and my SS drags the Tigers magnificently (Just to get the topic slightly sailing related <img src=

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Tiger Mike

Ford and General Motors cars are only good enough to keep both companies flirting with bankruptcy. They seem to be very good at making simple trucks.

The current Alfa Brera uses an engine from Australian automaker Holden. The current U.S. Pontiac GTO, which GM will pull off the market in 2007, is also a Holden. Their death must be due to those awful Aussie auto designers.

Fortunately, some Alfas that you may be describing are totally unfamiliar to the U.S. market. For example, the badly made Alfasud with it's anemic engine never made it to these shores, thank God. The U.S. has never seen any of the diesel Alfas or any of the cars that were not much better than those funny Fiats. The only cars this market has seen from Alfa-Romeo have been the Alfettas and the Spiders.

Many owners that dipped into sports car ownership bought used ones that were already problematic due to truly awful dealer service or from self described experts in their own garage or by the fiddling by ignorant previous owners. Then, they blamed the car - hardly a fair evaluation. (Sounds like boat ownership.) That was true of Alfa-Romeo. The engines were bullet proof, ditto the marvelous transmissions and suspensions, but the service technicians should have been shot. I was fortunate to have Paul Spruell in Atlanta for the service I couldn't perform to my Alfetta GT and my wife's Spider. The Alfetta was sold after 13 yrs. with more than 250,000 miles. The Spider was sold after 23 yrs. and 276,000 miles. I still have my 1987 Jaguar XJ-S (213,000 miles). I'm not a masochist. All cars were daily drivers and really reliable cars. The Alfas had their engines rebuilt once. The Jag has only had ancillary stuff replaced; water pump, radiator cleaned, filters, belts, relays, one steering rack, and more than a few tires. Everything else is original from 1987. Do you think your 1987 ride is still moving?

Many guys will automatically repeat things they've heard about cars without having firsthand experience because it's cool to sound knowledgeable. Those same tired things have been repeated for 50 years.

Ya'll know what FORD stand for? Fix Or Repair Daily! Haw, haw, haw!

Then there's the warm beer, Lucas the Prince of Darkness, if Britannia rules the waves why won't her cars go through a puddle, ad nauseum.

Jaguar has been #1 on the J.D. Powers new owners satisfaction survey for quite some time, now. BMW and Mercedes/Daimler are far down the list beneath the rice makers because the Germans currently have some of the worst cars on the market. We need some new jokes for the junk from Germany. How about,

You know what BMW stands for? Badly Made Wolkswagen!

I'll offer one of the things-to-say regarding boats: Hobie 16's can't tack.

Ah yes - back to boats. If you think a hobie 16 can't tack - you should try tacking a hobie 14.
(or did he mean Hobie 16 sailors can't tack - in which case it's always the crews fault) :->

Deg204:

The TRICK with a uni (I have a Hobie 17) is you MUST let out 3-4 feet of sheet as you go head to wind. Even more in a blow or the boat will go into irons. Try that and you should tack better, and even if you blow it. Reverse the rudders and back it up.

Doug

Speaking of boats and hot cars, what is the fastest you safely towed your boat? (if that is possible <img src=

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Towing a H20 with a supercharged Tbird SC, I would go to Fl from GA and cruise around 85mph, though to trailer tracked well, I would get worried about boat/trailer much faster. (only a couple of tickets)

Oh, the wonders of unreliable (Lucas) wiring...

I saw a really wonderful, reliable, excellent performing '78 Jag coupe once... it had a Chevy 350 and Painless wiring kit!

However I've never seen a reliable Alpha.

I routinly tow an TheMightyHobie18 with a VW Passt 1.8T (manual) at 75-80 mph. When in a hurry I have been known to go as fast as 90 mph. This is with a new trailer that tracks well, is loaded properly, has properly inflated tires rated for high speed, and there is not a strong crosswind. I also usually have a bike or two and a kayak or two on the roof rack as well.

I would not do this with any tow vehicle or trailer. Both are in excellent condition.

Re: VW 1.8L Passat- Turbo gas or Turbodiesel?
Has anyone been towing with a VW turbodiesel? Good or not?
We ALL know to use a manual tranny for this, eh?

I still think about the Honda CRX from Canada that I saw: towed 2 stacked Hobie 20s to Davis Island Yacht Club, Tampa-and got home ok! 1.5 L gas x manual if I remember...
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