Posts Tagged ‘alfa romeo’

Going Abroad – 1984 Alfa Romeo Arna

March 21, 2014

To broaden the scope a little, and to take full advantage of your faithful scribe’s language abilities, we’re going to start an occasional feature looking at listings abroad. We’ll try to restrain ourselves to cars that can legally be brought into any state or province, although you’ll have to ask yourself whether you’d honestly want to do so! And the first car that will incite us to pose that question is a rather unusual car, the product of Italians building foreign cars under license (which was, and kind of is, more common than you might have thought). Check out this 1984 Alfa Romeo Arna, for sale for €1200 (about $1655) in Cassano Magnago, Varese, Italy.

1984 Alfa Romeo Arna right front

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Tipo 119 – 1984 (ish) Alfa Romeo Alfa Sei Quadrifoglio d’Oro

March 12, 2014

Recent listings on eBay, albeit for 5-figure prices, inspired a quick little trip to Europe to see what’s available there in the way of the Alfa 6. Alfa’s first six-cylinder car since the inline 6 2600 of the 1960s, the Alfa 6 was merely related to the Alfetta platform cars, but with a front-mounted transmission (making it the only rear-wheel-drive V6 Alfa Romeo with a front-mounted transmission). It did use the same front torsion bar, rear de Dion set up that contributed greatly to the roadholding and balance of the Alfetta range. Of the roughly 12,000 cars produced, less than 2000 were built with the fuel-injected 2.5-liter V6, which had an output of 156hp. Intended as Alfa’s response to family-size BMW, Peugeot and Mercedes sedans, you can find this 1984 Alfa Romeo Alfa 6 Quadrifoglio Oro for sale for €2800 ($3890 at the current exchange rate), somewhere in Belgium.

1984 Alfa Romeo Alfa 6 left front

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Quattroporte – 1978 Alfa Romeo Alfetta Berlina

February 27, 2014

By now you’ve probably realized that any reasonably-priced Alfetta, as long as it’s not a complete non-running dog, will show up here. That means the clapped-out 1979 sedan with rust on every panel and four flat tires is out, as is the 1976 coupe with 20 years of dust on it, but the 1975 project car is in, as is the 1978 driver. And that’s what we have here in this 1978 Alfa Romeo Alfetta Berlina, also known as a Sports Sedan, for sale in Miami, FL with no bids, an opening bid of $500 and 9 1/2 days to go.

1978 Alfa Romeo Alfetta Berlina right front

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