My latest Italian

As some of you will know I bought an Alfasud in the summer. After a complete body / interior strip, followed by a respray and a refit she is now finished !

She passed her MOT with no advisories, and Paul at Motormech has built me an incredible sounding long-life stainless exhaust (pics to follow)

I always knew I would have another 'Sud one day - as my first 2 cars were a 1.5 saloon in chocolate brown, followed by a cream 1.5TIX.

My latest is a last of the line TI Green Cloverleaf - and is a keeper

Here are a few pics :-

Before



After

Very nice Mike.

I'd love to have a ride in it Mike, it'll bring back the memories. Stuff VW, this was the first 'GTI'.

Amazing!!!

well done mullet man!!
You and proccy will make a great couple driving around in this

Very nice Mike

That's lovely.

One of my mates is a serial Sud owner too, including a chocolate brown 5 door 1.5 SC. He thought that was the best of them although I reckoned his Ti with breathed on 1.7 motor was better (despite rampant torque steer).

Lovely, I had a 1982 1.5ti when I was 19.

I see you changed back to the correct wheels, are the metric tyres hard to find?

I found setting the engine up a really rewarding job, valve clearances, ignition timing and carb balancing. Once set up it had amazing throttle response. I found BLS in Lincoln very good for any advice needed.

If you're still at IBM and come to work in it, let me know and I'll come and have a drool.

My Dad had one as a company car in the mid 80's. It started to rust within 3 years

Let me know as well and i'll pop along in the Coupé... IBM Warwick isn't my local office but im up there on occasion.

Looks very cool BTW!

Wonderful to see

My first job was with a large Unilever company in Ashford; they used to sell off the company cars belonging to senior management, and I was a serial purchaser. The first one was a Sud 1.3ti; 3 years old and you could work on the engine without opening the bonnet through the rust holes! £250... ran her for a year then bought a Lancia Beta 2l. Another gorgeous car that was completely rotten at three years old. Paid £500 for it and sold it after 18 months for £1200 - mind you there must have been £300 worth of Isopon included.
My final effort was a Mk2 RS2000; great cars all three of them but the Sud was the most fun. That car hooked me on Italiana; my first company car in my own right was an Alfa 33 1.7 Cloverleaf. In gold..... . Happy days!

Enjoy your Sud - bloody rare these days and a great car.

very nice
Get it added to your sig pic.... show off

Very nice Mike

where has your screen-washer bottle gone?

Looks nice and tidy. I know nothing about these, what engine size is it and how much power do they put out?

V nice Mike. My only Alfa was a 33 1.7 Cloverleaf in met green One of the few cars I turned a profit on, although that was primarily due to the insurance payout.....

I assume you've still got the Stag though?

Looking really nice Mike. You Mike are madder than a mad person !!

You barsteward....I've always wanted one of those and in red .

Gorgeous

Very nice Mike.

1.5 105hp.

Re screw washer bottle, looks like it had the wrong one, now has the right one.

Hello AP1 - you can get the metric tyres, they are being re-manufactured but cost over £150 each .

On mine I was very lucky to pick up some of the imperial 6 x 14 speedline wheels on Ebay - from a 33 so I can fit normal tyres, they look exactly the same as the metric wheels which debuted on the 'Sud

Bezzer / Rush appreciate the interest - I'll bring her in to Warwick one dry day & will let you know in advance !

Lovely!

Fond memories!

Quality mate .... and another top Italian Midlands meet we had too