Re: Alfetta Turbodelta Sedans

[Nathan Wong <alfacors@xxxxxxxxx>]

>Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 16:35:26 EST
>From: JHertzman@domain.elided
>Subject: Alfetta Turbodelta Sedans
>
>So, there seems to be a puzzle. It is conceivable that the relatively large
>numbers of Australian Alfetta Turbodelta sedans were elaborated by the
>Australian distributor, I suppose, by buying Turbodelta parts and adding them
>to standard Alfetta sedans. A partially comparable case existed in England
>where (according to David Owen) a British agency developed a Turbo version
>"when Alfa announced that they would not be making the Autodelta-developed
>version of the GTV, already on sale in the German market, available in
>Britain".
>
John,

I am fairly sure the Alfetta Turbodelta Sedan was done by Alfa Romeo
Australia. From my recollection of the roadtest article (which I wil dig up
later), the Turbo kits, brakes etc were imported from Autodelta, and fitted
to Sedans here in Australia, complete with garish decals and very wide
Simmons 14" wheels.
There was one for sale about 6 months back, but the condition of the car was
very poor, faded cracked paint, faded upholstery, I hate to think what the
mechanicals were like.
>From memory the figures on the car went like this

Power - 110kW (146HP)
0-400m 16.1s

So as you can see it wasnt a lightning fast car, but was comfortbaly faster
than the standard 2L Sedan (with 90kW (119HP) and 17.8s for 0-400m)

I have only ever seen the one Turbodelta with my own eyes, and to be honest
I have no idea how many were produced by Alfa Romeo Australia....
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