Re: alfa-digest V7 #1208 - Alfa Kit Car

[AlfaNeely@domain.elided]

    The Alfa kit car was manufactured in the mid 1970's by Classic MotorCars 
or similar name in Buffalo New York.  I have some sale brochures around here 
that I picked up from a dealer 25 years ago.  It was supposed to be a 1930 
Alfa, but does not follow the P-2 or P-3 prototype too carefully.  The 
company also made a Mercedes GP car, a Bugatti replica and my favorite, a 
full fendered Frazier Nash.
     A friend from Little Rock has a Frazier Nash he built.  He had to pour 
two sacks of cement in the floor pan between the front wheels to get enough 
front end weight to make it drivable!  Needless to say, all were on narrowed 
full length VW pans.
    The price was about $1500 for a basic kit at that time.  Brooklands style 
windscreens and other accessories were available.  The full fendered Frazier 
Nash cost more than the three cycle fendered models.
    I found one of the Alfa replicas in the paper a couple of years ago.  The 
owner wanted $3000.  I offered $1000 for the body only.  He thought I was 
crazy for wanting to build a tube frame for it and install an Alfa drive 
train.  In fact I thought about two four cylinders connected at the crank.  
Then I could call it an 8C 4000 (if I used 2 liter engines)!  Pretty nutty, 
what?
Ciao,
Russ Neely
Oklahoma City


In a message dated 12/08/1999 9:48:13 PM Central Standard Time, 
owner-alfa-digest@domain.elided writes:

<< Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1999 19:21:29 -0800
 From: "Paul   Witek" <shempmodin@domain.elided>
 Subject: Alfa-Powered: Another idea...
 
 If someone has the hankering to stick an Alfa powerplant into something 
non-Alfa, my vote goes to the "Alfa Romero" kit car currently for sale on 
eBay (still waiting for a bid at $425).
 
 Apparently a few years ago a popular kit was a replica of a 30's era Alfa 
that was built on a narrowed (!) VW pan - but really, it's just calling out 
for an Alfa heart.
 
 If you're curious what the final product might look like, there's a 
completed one of these for sale at:
 
 http://www.priceofhistoys.com/showroom/oldalfa/index.html
 
 Although I'm not too sure about his "prototype" status.
 
 - -Paul Witek 
 
 
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