80's Alfa Pron.

[Volksy]

Found this brochure at my fossils house last week. Sadly it's missing a couple of pages. But I scanned it anyway.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Cavcraft]

Top bombing. I don't ever recall seeing an Alfa 6, were they sold in desperately low numbers in Blighty?

[Volksy]

Indeed, didn't quite cut the mustard with the competition. I'd love one though!!

 

Seems cheap that they don't come with a passenger mirror though!

[Cavcraft]

Porsche offered you an option of a pdm about the same time, possibly later. I'd love to know if people really were so tight they didn't buy one.

[Largactil]

Seems cheap that they don't come with a passenger mirror though!

 

Wasn't the base model BMW 7 Series of that time the same? (Unthinkable nowadays!)

 

Thanks for scanning - A mate had a 'B' reg 1.5 Sprint in black just like that one...Was '93/94, and at around 10 years old it was absolutely rotten as a pear.

 

Sounded brilliant though, till he removed the entire airbox & filter (for added noise) and it ingested a loose nut.

 

Fixed it (if I recall rightly, the person who took it apart mixed up all the valve shims, which made it fun* to rebuild), and sold it on - Was fragged within 6 months due to terminal rot...  

[Station]

Love them, but honestly, some people have a skewed idea of Italians producing 'beautiful' cars, they are pretty hideous.

[Partridge]

Cor, smashing stuff! I love how the Gulietta randomly has a picture of people in a canoe inserted into it's blurb "hey look lads, it's for people who do fun things"

And the 33 looks utter, utter poo. Not even the brochure shots make it look good.

 

Top bombing. I don't ever recall seeing an Alfa 6, were they sold in desperately low numbers in Blighty?

Must have been it's RHD in the picture to they obviously were officially imported here. But I've never seen one...which shiter has one?

[drum]

The 33 is a prawn.

 

Would love a 'sud ti.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

I had that very same brochure in the summer of 1983 when I started work at my local Alfa dealer. A mere 30 years ago.

 

One of their loan cars was a 1979 T reg Giulietta in dark blue - it was as rusty as an old horseshoe, 4 years old. I decided there and then that Alfas (mainly Spuds) were my thing, and I had around 10-15 Alfas over the next 20 years.

[Cavcraft]

Love them, but honestly, some people have a skewed idea of Italians producing 'beautiful' cars, they are pretty hideous.

You have to ponder how the GTV and Guiletta (above) came from the same company. Whatever people might say though, there aren't many Italian made things that don't have a bit of character about them.

[UmBongo]

I wanted a GTV6 for a while but I never took the plunge.

[brickwall]

Same here.

[HillmanImp]

The sprint is a sexy mo'fo fo'sho.

 

I am gutted that all my old brochures were binned many years ago. I had bags and bags of them.

[cort16]

I like how the 33 came with a tide line right out the factory. You just don't see that anymore.

[inconsistant]

Wouldn't mind an hour with that brochure. Lovely.

[Partridge]

Love them, but honestly, some people have a skewed idea of Italians producing 'beautiful' cars, they are pretty hideous.

Agreed, they're all as ugly as sin! But wantable.

[worldofceri]

Alfa 6 = want.  Failing that a 33 will do.

[Felly Magic]

6 layers in the paint process? Liars LOLOL

[Partridge]

6 layers in the paint process? Liars LOLOL

Poster paint maybe?

[HMC]

Thanks for scanning! i have an itch for an alfa 6. Martin Buckley wrote that the reason for the mega bland styling was to be as anonymous as possible as during its gestation there were a series of high profile kidnappings in the italian moneyed classes. Dont know how much truth there is in that, using the centre section (from an alfetta?) probably dictated things. A few years back i was browsing autotrader and saw a fairly tidy one that had a diesel engine, factory fit apparently. Bizzare to have a 6 without the 6. There was also a 4 wheel drive 33 estate that wasnt too far from me but sold quickly. As recently as last night I was eyeing up a black 164 v6 in manchester on e bay, sounded a bit neglected, but a spent ages perving at the polished intake ports on the engine. Ive yet to own one but its something i feel i must do before long.

[KruJoe]

Come on Volksy, fess up. What happened to the missing pages..?

[Partridge]

I don't think they're wipe clean.

[Volksy]

Haha! They would have been for the Arna too!

[mercrocker]

I saw the odd Alfa 6 during my time helping an autoshite trader friend of mine, wasnt the later 90 similar?   all  a bit of a blur now....

[phil_lihp]

Lovely stuff, thanks for posting this up.  A povo-spec Alfa 33 1.3 in banana beige is strangely appealing for some reason but it's hard to work out how a company that could in one breath produce the lovely Sud and GTV could in another produce the misproportioned Alfetta and just plain awkward-looking 6.  That said, the two-tone Alfetta is an improvement and I can't help but feel the 6 might have looked better as an estate.

[DSdriver]

I love the way the person who designed the brochure managed to get his holiday snaps included in the design