RE: fame

["Mark Battley" <m.battley@domain.elided>]

>Looking back through old Sports Car Graphic and Road & Track issues, it seems
>that the Alfa ads were always a bit defensive, as if the company's position
>was:  We don't understand you (US market). Why don't you get it?...
>
>I'm thinking of one series of ads which were trying to show the owner how to
>defend themselves from the ignorant masses...
>Reproduced here:  http://gtv2000.georgecomm.com/alfa_ad.html

Interesting to see that the advertising types were just as technically
illiterate then as they are now...

"Four-wheel disk breaks", Race-refined handeling...

And out of interest, which bit of the valves is tungsten?

Mark Battley
Auckland, New Zealand.

1973 Alfa Romeo 2000 GT Veloce
1989 Fiat Uno Turbo 
1989 Fiat Croma
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