SS quibble

["John Hertzman" <johnhertzman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In a reply to the Sprint Speciale question, Carl Davis writes (among several
other unarguable points) "with Spider you have at least some hope of using
body parts from one car on another .....SS body parts are all hand fitted."
This was certainly true of the first Speciales (as it had been for the first
Sprints) but after Bertone opened its new and fully up-to-date assembly plant
at Grugliasco the Sprints, Sprint Speciales, and 2600 Sprints moved down the
same assembly lines mixed together, benefiting from the same facilities and
technologies (which were directly comparable to those at the slightly earlier
Pininfarina plant nearby) and there should not have been more hand fitting
discrepancies on one Grugliasco Alfa than on another. If there was, then there
was, but there is no reason there should have been.

There are a couple of nice shots of the Grugliasco body assembly lines in
d'Amico & Tabucchi, p.537.

Cheers

John H.
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