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Classic car spotting this week.

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The 4C is a great car but more mini-supercar than delightful soft top cruiser.
I had the very good fortune to test drive one on the open roads when they came out in the UK, accompanied by a race driver instructor
Dressed appropriately of course....
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Interesting that the black one there has nice normal headlights instead of the weird spider eye ones I see around on most of them, wonder if that was an option
 
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1939 Mercedes Benz Model G4 from Lyon air museum in Orange County.
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@kfranzk, AC modeled their Ace after a Ferrari barchetta. But this photo really looks like a crashed Ace (I’m no expert in vintage Ferrari 😉) Anyone else have an opinion?

 
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@kfranzk, AC modeled their Ace after a Ferrari barchetta. But this photo really looks like a crashed Ace (I’m no expert in vintage Ferrari 😉) Anyone else have an opinion?


I think you're absolutely right.
Apart from the shape of the nose around the lights - that's no prancing horse badge on the bonnet
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I think you're absolutely right.
Apart from the shape of the nose around the lights - that's no prancing horse badge on the bonnet
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Yes, it is the detail around the headlamp that gives it away.
 
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Alfa? Did I hear Alfa?

Here is mine.

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V8 engine, but VSB (Very Small Block 😁)

Owned since about 20 years, running sweet and reliable. Serviced by myself. They need to be driven, otherwise they develop multible problems, in particular with the fuel injection.


Random Instagram photo.

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With all due respect and not to hurt anyone’s feelings, but I think I’d prefer the Dinos in the background. Of course I’ve never driven nor heard the Alfa, and I have driven the Dino (wonderful car). The sound of the Ferrari engine (2 liter) is crazy addicting.
 
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With all due respect and not to hurt anyone’s feelings, but I think I’d prefer the Dinos in the background. Of course I’ve never driven nor heard the Alfa, and I have driven the Dino (wonderful car). The sound of the Ferrari engine (2 liter) is crazy addicting.

in this it sounds pretty good, I’ve never heard one in person that was running right though, there’s a white and an orange I’ve seen around locally and both sound like a bit of a bag of spanners and down a cylinder or two. Not sure what kind of fuel injection it has but I’m guessing it’s a bit difficult to get right.

Stunningly beautiful though, with a presence that puts anything else on the road to shame.
 
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Not sure what kind of fuel injection

I think it was SPICA, at least that's what they used on four cylinder cars at the time.
 
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I have driven by our local Lamborghini dealership twice in the last week, and I have discovered the showrooms are EMPTY! So I am unable to report that I had spotted anything other than a few Porsches in that neighbourhood. If the dealership closes, I can’t imagine there will be a significant effect on the car market, locally.
 
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With all due respect and not to hurt anyone’s feelings, but I think I’d prefer the Dinos in the background. Of course I’ve never driven nor heard the Alfa, and I have driven the Dino (wonderful car). The sound of the Ferrari engine (2 liter) is crazy addicting.
I’d have both the Monty sounds truly magnificent, but I’ll never forget the sound of Dad’s 246 Dino GT one of the most beautiful cars ever made.
 
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Took a trip to more or less the middle of nowhere in (Eastern) North Yorkshire today to visit a classic car auction that is the subject of a rather lovely 'documentary' series on TV ('Bangers and Cash' for our British audience)

They have hundreds of modern and classic cars in each month's sale, all crammed in nose-to-tail in a couple of warehouses.

This month's classics offerings, amongst many, many others included; an E type, a clutch of Austin Healey's, a couple of TR6s, a TR4A, a TVR Grantura and several MGBs and MGB GTs.

However, I was only there to see one car - a 1964 Alfa Romeo Guilia Spider
The Giulia features the 1600 double overhead cam (as opposed to the earlier Giulietta's 1300 engine)
In truth, it looks great from 20 feet but close up it needs quite a bit of work - but what a little beauty all the same. 🥰

For your viewing pleasure I give you one of the sweetest little open top cars ever made:
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BTW, the bonnet is pulled for viewing before anyone thinks it's had a nose-shunt
 
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as an added bonus - a pic of the TR4As Jaeger-laden dashboard.
Also a very lovely car.
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With all due respect and not to hurt anyone’s feelings, but I think I’d prefer the Dinos in the background. Of course I’ve never driven nor heard the Alfa, and I have driven the Dino (wonderful car). The sound of the Ferrari engine (2 liter) is crazy addicting.

Well, I think exactly the opposite, I have driven both cars, as I found the Fiat Dinos quite interesting as well some time ago. Perhaps the Dinos I had tested were not in all too good fettle, but in my eyes the Montreal has the better engine (and engine sound, with the standard exhaust) and better gearbox. The suspension of the Montreal was and is due to critizism, admittedly, but is greatly improved by rebuilding with PU elements and adjustable shocks. That said, a Montreal with factory original suspension has turned from bad (when new) to crap (today) as time went by ... 😎

At least with these suspension improvements you do not any longer look into the sky in the interior mirror under strong braking ... 😁

I admitt that the instruments panel is nicer in the Dino. In the Montreal, although somewhat "spacy", it has a "cheap" appearance.
 
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a pic of the TR4As Jaeger-laden dashboard

I was always glancing for a TR5 (but not TR250). The TR4 body with the TR6 engine 🥰
 
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