Re: alfa-digest V9 #638

[George Graves <gmgraves@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'd like to see a link for an article about this. AutoDelta NEVER 
mentioned on their web site or any of their literature that the cars 
they were selling were Alfa Romeos. All Alfa badges (except the one 
stating that the car was built by Alfa Romeo SpA) were to be removed 
and replaced with AutroDelta USA badges. I can't imagine ANYBODY not 
understanding that they were buying Alfas which were privately being 
"federalized" by a company who was re-badging them after, ostensibly, 
doing extensive modifications to make them road legal in the USA. Now 
of course if they were re-badging them without modifying anything.....

One thing that I have NEVER understood about not being able to bring 
the Spider/GTV into the US is this: Alfa stopped selling cars in North 
America after the 1995 model year, correct? From what I have been able 
to ascertain, both the "new" Spider and the "new" GTV were going to be 
sold here as 1996 models before Fiat pulled the US plug on Alfa Romeo 
North America. This means that samples were most assuredly submitted to 
the DOT for the mandatory crash tests and that they were type approved. 
Now, if the cars were type approved, why can't we bring them in? After 
all, the AWD 164s were never officially imported into the USA, but you 
can buy one in Europe and LEGALLY bring it back because of it's 
similarity to the FWD 164 which was approved for sale here by the DOT. 
Therefore it would seem to me that if the Spider/GTV had similar 
approval, we should be able to go to Europe and buy one of those and 
bring it back with similar results to those who have brought AWD 164s 
into the US. Does anybody know anything about this?

George Graves
'86 GTV-6 3.0 'S'


On Friday, Jul 11, 2003, at 21:00 US/Pacific, alfa-digest wrote:


> Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 19:36:50 -0400 (EDT)
> From: "Anthony" <tg60@domain.elided>
> Subject: Autodelta
>
> Hi all,
>
> About the Autodelta article. Of the 20 cars imported; how many were 
> sold to list members?
>
> The article states that the criminal duo defrauded customers by 
> re-badgeing Alfa Romeos, obviously implying that none new the buyers 
> knew the cars were in fact Alfas. Was any of you fooled?
>
> They sure fooled me, I was wondering why all the talk about Autodelta 
> cars in a Alfa forum - now I know.
>
> One more thing. there have been in the past some "new" spiders on Ebay
> badged as Alfas not Autodelta, there is an outfit here in NJ that had 
> one of those on Ebay.  why aren't they illegal?
>
> AM I making any sense?
>
> TonyG
>
> 87 Alfa spider (not Autodelta)
> Pequannock, NJ
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