Alfa Purchase, redux

[Paul Witek <pwitek@domain.elided>]

Hmmmm... I've been in a somewhat similar situation.

Don Happel and I were driving back from the Fall Fest one year when we picked up a trader-type newspaper while gassing up at one point. 

We spotted an Alfetta for a low price, and at the time Don was looking for a replacement rear hatch (rust ate his earlier one).  This was a good candidate, as it was later and had the rubber gasketed rear window.
We finally got a hold of the guy, drove up to look at it, and by the time we got there it was late at night.

The car was in generally good condition, but popping the hood revealed dual Webers and a euro intake - together, worth more than the asking price of $400.  We didn't feel a need to tell him that.

Of course, it also had a hole in the number 4 piston (and a crack in the brake booster hose - coincidence?  haha), so it wasn't a ten minute fix, but Alfetta engines were plentiful around the house we were living in - it was a weekend job to pull the Weberized head (with euro cams, no less), drop it onto a good donor shortblock, and drop the whole deal into the car.

The spider deal does seem a bit shady, though - the way I figure it, Don got a great deal on the Alfetta, but at the time it wasn't running, and the guy who sold it could never had fixed it, so he was happy to get rid of it.   The spider wasn't running, but the seller very well could have fixed it himself - somehow, it just seems like bad karma.  Then again, I can't say with any real certainty I would've done anything different.


- Paul Witek


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