Re: vehicle production year

[Jan Czaban <dk715@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've had my spider since 03/1976 in Ottawa. Its papers say it is a 1971. The
door label says it was manufactured 07/1970. It had the 2 litre bosch FI,
but I installed a 1750 weber engine in 1976.


>Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 17:28:53 -0700
>From: Sam Kass <samkass@domain.elided>
>Subject: Re: Vehicle Production Year

>I'm a newbie, but I do recall reading about this.  There was apparently
>some weirdness about 1970 in the Alfa lineup.  There are some details in
>the Alfa Spider FAQ:
>http://spiderfaq.home.att.net/dev_his.htm#Series_2
>http://spiderfaq.home.att.net/maintain.htm
.(.on the 2nd link, 5-6 paragraphs in, they start talking about the 1970
>.spiders.)

>.Summary: Apparently in 1970 emissions laws and related paperwork
>changed.  There are apparently many importers that tried to get around
>the rules by taking a car produced in 1970 and labelling it as a 1969.
>And many times the new cars would sit on the dock going through the new
>paperwork and not get sold and titled until the next year, in 1971.
>Thus, there are apparently almost no Alfa Spiders with 1970 titles-- 
>even the ones built in 1970 are titled either 1969 or 1971.  I saw
>another web site list the number of 1970-titled Alfa Spiders at two, but
>I don't know how accurate that count is.  Anyway, the FAQ also lists
>another interesting tidbit-- that spiders produced in 1971 had the 2.0L
>engine, but almost all US-titled "1971" cars use the 1750 engine, since
>they're generally actually 1970 cars backlogged into the next year.
 >   --Sam
 >   1988 Spider Graduate
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