Re:ES30 Pricing and availability

[Zamani Zambri <zzambrimail@domain.elided>]

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> alfa-digest          Thursday, July 25 2002          Volume 08 :
> Number 953
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> Forum for Discussion of Alfa Romeos, etc.
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> Contents:
> 
>      Monster Zagato
>      AR 1090, and Giulietta Nuova
>      recurrent hood dent
>      Sud
>      SZ (ES30) importing and CA smog thingy
>      RE: recurrent hood dent
>      Lumpy idle when cold
>      1978 Alfetta/Sprinit Veloce For Sale
>      Re: alfa-digest V8 #950
>      NYC Parking woes
>      Re: SZ (ES30) importing and CA smog thingy
>      Vibration While Braking
>      RE: AR 1090, and Giulietta Nuova
>      ES30 Pricing and availability
> 
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> Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 16:47:40 -0700
> From: Kit Redwine <kredwine@domain.elided>
> Subject: Monster Zagato
> 
> All this talk led me to Eduard van de Beek's nice ES-30 page:  
> http://home.planet.nl/~evdbeek/monster.html
> 
> Which leads me to my next question.  Are the ES-30 alloys still
> available
> and if so, would they fit a GTV6?
> 
> 
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Kit
> Seattle
> '86 GTV6
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 21:25:07 -0400
> From: "John Hertzman" <johnhertzman@domain.elided>
> Subject: AR 1090, and Giulietta Nuova
> 
> Henrik Johansen took the bait and asked "BTW what is a tipo AR 1090,
> transaxle, wrong wheel drive? The only late fifties - early sixties
> Alfa I
> know of is a tipo 103 prototype with a transversely mounted 898 cc
> engine. 2
> cars and 3 engines were made."
> 
> It is essentially identical to a Renault Dauphine, except built by
> Alfa Romeo
> at Portello, badged as an Alfa Romeo, and sold and serviced by Alfa
> Romeo
> dealers. There were other detail differences- 12 v instead of 6v,
> hound's-tooth check upholstery fabric from the Giulietta T.I., etc.
> There was
> also a more deluxe version called the Ondine.
> 
> The front engined front wheel drive R4, a more spartan-looking
> econobox, was
> also built under the same arrangement but not actually badged as an
> Alfa
> Romeo.
> 
> A fairly large number were built - 112,311 over five years, compared
> to 21,152
> 1900s over seven years, or 174,713 Giuliettas over seven years (of
> which about
> 17,000 were Spiders).
> 
> Alfa purists may question whether it was a "real" Alfa Romeo (as some
> did
> later over other models). Fusi does not list it at all, but d'Amico &
> Tabucchi
> do list it as an Alfa Romeo production car.
> 
> On the Giulietta Nuova, Henrick's statement that "Most, if not all,
> bodypanels
> are a straight fit. The interior is a straight fit, except for one
> differently
> placed bolt in the dashboard" is, I think, a considerable
> overstatement. The
> production number he gives, 379,691 is a tad higher than d'Amico &
> Tabucchi
> (348,145) but both are appreciably higher than the 316,699 of the
> 75/Milano in
> all versions.
> 
> 
> 
> John H.
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 18:09:56 -0700
> From: "Timothy Leigh Rodgers" <timothy@domain.elided>
> Subject: recurrent hood dent
> 
> My 1992 Spider is quite low (stock car) and I have to go at a creep
> over any
> bump, dip, or driveway.  I couple of times I've inadvertently hit a
> dip hard
> enough that the engine has come up and dented the underside of the
> hood.
> Once I cracked the pan (in spite of a pan guard).  I had the hood
> flattened
> and repainted-and damn! It happened again (the hood dent, not the
> cracked
> pan.)  I'm now getting the hood fixed and repainted again, and would
> like to
> prevent this from happening again in the future. These dips/ bumps
> that have
> caused this trouble and no big deal for my wife's Jaguar or my Giulia
> 1300
> Super.  Have others had this problem with their spiders?  Is this
> unique to
> series four spiders, or is it all of them?
> I've had my motor mounts checked and they seem OK. (the car only has
> 35,000
> mi on it.)  Would new shocks help?  Should I get stiffer springs? 
> Any
> advice would be appreciated.
> 
> Timothy
> '71 Alfa Romeo Giulia 1300 Super
> '78 Alfa Romeo F-12 Diesel Van
> '92 Alfa Romeo Spider Veloce
> '81 Harley Wide Glide
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 21:16:36 EDT
> From: GenericWood@domain.elided
> Subject: Sud
> 
> Zamani, the Sud you are referring to with the spare heads is on ebay
> right 
> now!
> 
> Erik Wood
> 
> 
> Zamani writes:  "I would love to get a 2-door sud Ti with a 1.7 16V
> engine in 
> it!
> There's a series 1 sud 1.2 on ebay which is located in Toronto. Has
> spare racing heads with twin carbs as well."
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 18:52:48 -0700
> From: alfacybersite <acs@domain.elided>
> Subject: SZ (ES30) importing and CA smog thingy
> 
> Okay, you're here mostly under false pretenses. True, should the
> little
> man in red with horns cut me a deal, you'd all be 'going south' when
> the
> bearded guy with the scythe shows up and I'd be driving a
> beeyoutafull
> (don't care what all those pundits say) low mileage '89 SZ.
> 
> That said, anyone in the CA region ever work out a simple
> mathematical
> formula how one can go from, "My car is a '75 Alfetta GT." To -  "I
> can
> quit smogging it in the year -  -"?
> 
> My simple but probably inaccurate calculation is as follows: 1973
> (current cut-off date for smogging in CA) + 25 + 5 (waiting period
> for
> us after '73 peons) = 2003. If this means '74's are exempt in 2003,
> and
> I reregister my car from a '76 to a '75 which I should be able to do
> -
> 
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