[alfa] Re: Re: Victory by Design

[George Graves <gmgraves@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The Alfa DVD has a bit more on it than the show, and he does make a 
fleeting reference to the 750 and 101 Giulietta on the DVD, but it is 
fleeting (he shows a bunch of race prepared production Alfas lined up 
at Leguna Seca. There's a blue Giulietta Sprint, a red Spider, an SZ 
Zagato and a red Sprint Special).

As to locations, the films were shot in California, GB and Italy. The 
favorite piece of road seems to be the Laurel Grade that runs from 
Quail Lodge (where the Concorso Italiano was held for a number of 
years), Carmel-by-the-Sea, California back toward Leguna Seca and 
Salinas CA. They use that in every show. Whenever they are parked on a 
winding piece of road cut into the side of a hill with a huge vista of 
mountains and hills on the other side, that's Laurel Grade, one of the 
GREAT sports car roads. They also use some of the military roads on 
what used to be Fort Ord - also on the Monterey Penninsula. The Tipo 33 
roadster was shot at one of the Laguna Seca access roads on the old 
Fort Ord, for instance. They actually use some other roads in central 
CA where they drive cars like the
 "toad" (8C35). I'm not sure exactly where that stretch of road is 
unfortunately. My guess would be north of Paso Robles, maybe near San 
Simeon.


The private road circuit that winds through an obviously British forest 
around a lake, is, I believe , Sir Anthony Bamford's estate (and I'm 
guessing here. I read an article about Sir Anthony's private road a 
number of years ago, and this location seems to match the description 
in the article as I remember it). He owns so many tasty classic cars 
that he did what we'd all like to do, he built his own private road 
upon which to enjoy them without worrying about the local Peelers.

The track in Italy Where DeCadinet drives the Museo Storico provided 
Alfas is a Fiat proving track between Turin and Milan. I'm not sure of 
it's exact location. Before anybody asks, I do not believe it to be 
either Balocco or Mantona.

If anybody else can zero in on some of these locations a little better, 
chime-in.

George Graves
'86 GTV-6




On Feb 3, 2004, at 8:24 AM, alfa-digest wrote:


> Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 21:50:56 -0500
> From: "ronewing" <ronewing@domain.elided>
> Subject: [alfa] Re: Victory by Design
>
>     Greetings.  Watched the above on Speedvision last night - fun, but 
> a
> little disappointed that they didn't have more on 105's, etc.  They 
> also
> skipped 101's altogether.  Anything more on the DVD?  Didn't see any 
> mention
> of the test locations either.  Lovely tho.  Anybody care to fill me 
> in? TIA,
> Ron.
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