Though the Motherlode 400 rally usually runs the second weekend in June, the photos sat in the camera until last night. Here’s a fun set of pictures to get you thinking about what you’re going to do with your car before winter sets in, or make plans for next year’s rally season. First is this picture on the way up into the Sierra, showing (from left to right) the RustyButTrusty Alfa Romeo Spider, Porsche 356, BMW 1600, Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Speciale, and Toyota Celica.
Mostly RustyButTrusty is not a car show site – there are plenty of other sites where you can find pictures of shiny cars. However, for this case I’ll make an exception, mostly to drive the point home that you can amazingly *still* afford cars related to some of the shiny ones in this post, some of them so closely related that they have nearly the same engine and suspension. A prime example of this is this row of 4 Alfa Romeo Giulietta and Giulia Sprint Speciales – the number 81 car raced at Sebring back in the early 1960s. Not only that, the owner had driven it down from British Columbia with his wife and was doing the high performance driving school, time trials, and the concorso!
Ordinarily, the single-marque clubs no longer hold as much appeal as they used to, especially since repair resources are now available to anyone with internet access. However, when given the opportunity to ogle loads of old Alfas and spend some time on the track and in the field with them, it’s hard to resist. And that’s how the RustyButTrusty Alfetta GT ended up attending the 2013 Alfa Romeo Owners’ Convention. Tuesday’s offering (okay, so it’s not exactly live reporting, but cut me some slack, I was drooling on other people’s cars today as well) was a Hooked On Driving course at Sears Point, or Sonoma Raceway as they insist on calling it.
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