Re: alfa-digest V7 #525

["Kim Boydell" <boydell@domain.elided>]

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From: alfa-digest <owner-alfa-digest@domain.elided>
To: alfa-digest@domain.elided <alfa-digest@domain.elided>
Date: March 4, 1999 10:44 AM
Subject: alfa-digest V7 #525


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>alfa-digest          Thursday, March 4 1999          Volume 07 : Number 525
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>Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 08:12:19 -0600
>From: "Warren, Howard K." <HKWarren@domain.elided>
>Subject: Wanting to buy a 164L
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>Okay, my fellow Alfisti, here's my quandary:
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>My beautiful, half-Korean wife has FINALLY decided to ditch her Mazda MPV.
>She grew up driving a Toyota Celica, and she periodically drives my Milano
>(although she claims SnowHawk doesn't like her.)  She wants a Mazda 626 or
>Protege as a replacement.
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>HOWEVER, locally there is an 1991 Alfa 164L, auto tranny, 50k miles for
sale
>by my mechanic/ex-dealer.  I drove the car for several days last week while
>he was replacing the radiator on SnowHawk.  It drives wonderfully,
>everything works well.  And of course, it's price is much less than either
>Mazda Pat is looking at.
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>Pat has said on occasion she wants to project a "professional image" at her
>office, and wants to drive a "professional's car."  (Fortunately, she
>doesn't want a BMW!)  To me, the 164 would be perfect!
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>Her concern is the reliability of the Alfa.  To her, a 50k mile car is half
>dead already (to us, it's just getting out of puberty <g>!)  My local Alfa
>mechanic is excellent, and he has done all maintenance and upgrades on this
>car.  So I ask this of my fellow Alfisti: email my wife with your testimony
>of 164L ownership, how reliable they are, etc.
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>Her email address is: patricia.a.warren@domain.elided
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>Many, many thanks!
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>Howard K. Warren, Little Rock, AR
>1988 Milano Platinum, "SnowHawk", 155k miles
>1984 GTV-6, "Falconi", 131k miles
>1974 Spider, "roba di rifiuto"
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Ya, right Howard;

Now if you can convince my wife that a Maserti Merak SS is just the perfect
car to go with the spider because it doesn't leak and there is room for my
daughter in the back (as my daughter gets older I might have to cut her legs
off to make her fit) then I will talk to Pat.

Regards
Kim
1979 Spider

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