Re: Alfa pickup in morristown, N.J.

["John Hertzman" <johnhertzman@domain.elided>]

Brian Shorey's memory is (naturally) correct, unless the pickups are more
common than I would think they are. The Giulia (TI? Super?) pickup conversion
which was at the San Diego AROC convention in 1990 (?) was purchased by Ed
Geller, the AROC Technical Librarian, who does live in Morristown NJ, and I
assume he still has it. It was a very neat conversion, incorporating the stock
rear window and the last few inches of the roof and C-pillar mated to the
B-pillar, and the wheel wells and interior structure of the bed were
fabricated neatly out of diamond-tread plate with no raw edges that I
remember. The Alfetta Sport Sedan pickup conversion which was advertised a few
years ago in Alfa Owner, possibly the current Bay-Area car, did not appear to
be as suitable a conversion from the body-configuration standpoint, (the
vertical B-pillar and shut-lines of the Giulia and Berlina fit the concept
better) although it may have been just as suitable otherwise.

I have also seen photos of some Alfetta sedan pickup conversions in service as
fire trucks at Alfa's Balocco test track - utilitarian enough but certainly
not as handsome as the Giulia, which was almost as neat as the Colli wagons.

 John H.

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