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Subject: Alfa 2600
From: waynea@cadnetix.com (Wayne Angevine)
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 90 09:26:14 MDT
In the British cars list, Jim Muller writes:
>I looked around the yard and found a red
>Alfa the likes of which I have never seen.  Perhaps richard welty has something
>to say about it.  Longish and a four-seater (I think, but I am embarrased to
>say that I don't remember noticing).  The front had elongated, chrome-edged
>headlight holes that looked like rather stylized squinty-eyes, and the back was
>bulbous-shaped like an AMC Javelin maybe but rounder.  Each front wing (oops,
>fender, this was Eyetalian, after all) had a Zagato badge and the back panel
>said "2600".  Most curious.

I still remember the first time I saw a 2600.  This was a Berlina - Jim doesn't
mention the body style of the one he saw, but I assume it was a Berlinetta or
Spider.  My neighbors-across-the-street in Walnut Creek had a variety of
(usually basket-case) italian and British cars.  I'd fallen in love with
the Guilia Spider they had for a while.  So one morning I look out the window
and there is this sedan that looks a lot like a Volvo, but not quite.  I
wander over, and it says Alfa.  Then they open up the hood.  I was used
to looking at the nice valve cover on the Guilia.  Here's the Valve Cover
>From Hell - exactly the same pattern, but twice the size.  The 2600 was a
DOHC inline six.  The Berlina had a five-on-the-tree shift, too.  Serious
wierdness.

The same neighbors gave me my first ride in a British car - a TR3!  Now,
this is 1974 we're talking about, not 1964.  Must be what warped me for life.

Wayne





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