105 Grilles - historical question

[Ben Dixon <Ben@domain.elided>]

> does anyone (John H?) know whether the alfa 'heart' grille from the GTA's
> is shared with any other model?
> 
> looking at photos of various 105-series alfas in a number of books, it
> would appear that the GTA and its various variants (GTA Junior, etc...)
> have a grille centre that is different to all the other 105-series, both
> stepnose and flat.  it has a grille centre that is like the 1750 grille
> centre, but more 'delicate'.  the only contradiction to this is a photo I
> have in a book that shows a pair of GTA Juniors with the same grille
> centre as the standard GT 1300 Junior, but this is one photo amongst many.
> all the other pics show the 'other' grille.
> 
> as I am considering building a GTA replica, I am trying to source either
> an original GTA grille centre (Ha!, fat chance!) or perhaps identify a
> more common model with the same grille centre.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Ben
> '68 1750 GTV
> '68 GT 1300 Junior (GTA potenital???)
> 
> 

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