My stock, original Alfa Spider that I drive April - November as a daily driver
made its debut last week. Wouldn't start, simple cleaning of wiring and dizzy
parts and it fired right up. Drove it around, left turn signal not working.
Treated it like a British car (wiggle the wires) and it works. Go to clean it
up and the whole thing disintegrates. Jane Caldwell (Mrs. Peter C) sent me to a
used ALfa parts place, $30 later the restored (by moi) bucket goes in and works
like new. Of course, I painted some trim pieces, so one side looks nice, the
other grimy. Go out to get some more hardware to do the other side, flip the
top down, the back plastic window cracks. Oh well. Take off and go, the
radiator springs a gusher. I think 31 years is the Alfa limit on most
components, and they are pretty much all that age except the motor and
geartrain. Joy. There will be no restoration. There will be duct tape.
Ron Soave
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