who remembers that far back?

[Pottree@domain.elided]

In a message dated 11/15/2002 8:10:39 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
owner-alfa-digest@domain.elided writes:


>  Point being is the gtv-6 design was mid-70s, 

Perhaps our History Department would comment, but I don't think so.  Without 
cracking the references, I think the basic design of the GTV6 was drawn by 
Guigaro in the 60s (as the Alfetta) and later "revised" by the factory [there 
is a tale that he disowned the model in a huff, yet Italdesign literature 
still trumpets it];  the GTV6 updating probably had a much shorter lead time. 
 The GTV6 came out as a 74 model, so it had to be designed quite some time 
prior to the mid 70s.

Personally, I think it came out well, all things considered, but it always 
impressed me as a cheap way to get the model more competitive, and led to 
certain oddities: for one, the tea tray, and for another, the original clutch 
which I still maintain was a holdover from the days of the Alfetta and was 
never perfectly mated to the more powerful 6; the Milano-style clutch pretty 
much completed the transition some years later.
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