Re: alfa-digest V8 #30

[Iopsycheng@domain.elided]

Tony Lupton,
I would tend to agree with you, from the time I was 16 until I was 26 an Alfa 
was my only car. 65 Giulia Spider or 75 Alfetta Sedan. If I were not so sick 
and tired of the way people treat other people's cars I would still drive one 
every day. The sad fact is most people have as much regard for a car as they 
do for an iron or the refrigerator. One evening at dinner in a very upscale 
restaurant my wife and I were asked to step outside as there had been an 
accident. A woman, who was very obviously drunk, had backed into my wife's 
Alfa. The woman explained she was a lawyer and that being charged with any 
kind of public intoxication or drunken driving would be very detrimental to 
her career. To this end, she suggested that we take the car to the Alfa 
dealer, have it repaired and send her the bill, no questions asked. My wife 
-- she and I were not yet married -- agreed. We had not even sat back down 
when the waiter asked us to step back outside. The woman had backed into the 
Alfa again, about a foot further down the side of the car from the first 
impact. My wife lost her cool called the cops and still ended up having to 
take the car all over town to get repair estimates. Story # 2. Eight months 
pregnant, my wife comes out of the local HQ to find the door of the Spider 
hit so hard the window is broken. No note, no nothing. Story # 3. We decided 
to paint the Spider ourselves... I have a paint booth in my garage and Robin 
bought me the HVLP sprayer for my birthday. (You guys are welcome to give it 
a try if you are in the Newport News, VA area. No projects left more than the 
weekend, they will be junked) Anyway after count 68 separate door dings I 
gave up. 
So yes Tony I understand that some people will have an Alfa as their daily 
driver but for most it will be a toy or at best a fair weather car.
Thomas A. Gonnella

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