Re: Trivia Question: GT Veloce Automatica

[Nick Tangney <mes@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John,
The automatic was definitely installed by the factory - I still have the
factory original "Alfa Romeo 2000A, Automatic Transmission, Supplement to the
Instruction Book" which depicts the GTV interior (interestingly enough in left
hand drive) with the auto shifter in place I say its interesting that the car
is depicted as a left hand drive because Australia, New Zealand and South
Africa are all right hand drive countries.
My car's chassis number is 2414485. I know of the existance of one other
automatic GTV in this country but have unfortunately lost contact with its
owner.
Regards,
Nick Tangney
Perth, Western Australia

JHertzman@domain.elided wrote:

> I had understood that fairly small numbers of Berlinas had been built with
> automatic transmissions, generally understood to have been for the
> Australia/New Zealand market and perhaps South Africa also. And in the
> twilight years of the Spider in the USA automatics were offered.
>
> Now in AD7-290 Nick Tangney, moving from Perth to Brisbane, mentions "my
> lowered, but otherwise standard '75 (105 series) GTV 2000 Automatic (the
> ladies car) and my own street driven '71 1750 (now 2 litre, efi, turbo,
> intercooled, lowered, bumperless, etc) GTV."
>
> I realize that the automatic GT Veloce could have been a conversion, (given
> the description of its stablemate) but the question hangs there: did Alfa
> Romeo build some GT Veloces with automatic boxes? And, more generally, does
> anybody have information on the dates, models, numbers, and markets offered
> automatics prior to their general availability?
>
> John H.

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