Re: cheapest to maintain

[Godfrey DiGiorgi <ramarren@domain.elided>]

In general, I'd consider the simpler the car the less it should cost to
maintain. The type 105/115 chassis is a dead simple live rear axle design
and requires little in way of maintenance. Between carbureted, SPICA and
Bosch L-Jet engines, if the tune-up labor charges are any indication, the
Bosch L-Jet should be the least amount of maintenance required. Of course,
by the time they put the Bosch injection in, they also tended to load the
cars with electric windows and air conditioning junk which have a
maintenance cost associated. Perhaps a Spider Graduate with manual window
cranks and no AC from about '86 or so would be the simplest, easiest to
maintain Alfa Romeo, although the older carbureted sedans and such from
the 1960s should be darn similar. 

Godfrey

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