Sudsprint Posted March 17, 2015 Posted March 17, 2015 After five years of sitting in a workshop in Ashford waiting for a quiet period the Sud is finally on its way. First of May is the target date. The NOS wings have been tried on the car and fit with minor fettling. The doors and hatch will soon be back on and then its a respray in its original Pino Verde, an MOT and she's done. Happy days! Skizzer, scruff, The Old Bloke Next Door and 22 others 25
tul66 Posted March 17, 2015 Posted March 17, 2015 Always loved those. Had a Sud 1.5 ti years ago but you could sit and watch it rust! Bamboocarman 1
sporty-shite Posted March 17, 2015 Posted March 17, 2015 My first Alfa was a Sprint. Was hooked from there. Would love another, but alas, I think I've missed the boat. £500 Suds are no more......... Bamboocarman 1
spike60 Posted March 17, 2015 Posted March 17, 2015 I had a 1983Y 1.5 Veloce, based on a 'sud, not the 33 so it had the shit inboard brakes etc. Fine toy.
garethj Posted March 17, 2015 Posted March 17, 2015 Any car with the heater fan switch where the indicator stalk normally goes is alright by me. I had a very early 1500 single carb Sprint, a 1978 model, it was a truly wonderful drive. It's got such urge when you drive that the 5 speed gearbox feels like all of them are third. HMC and Bamboocarman 2
Bamboocarman Posted March 18, 2015 Posted March 18, 2015 Mine was a red 1.5, about X reg; characterful fun, much filler involved, but I couldn't afford to run it back then - petrol / insurance costs (late 80s). Ran a late-model Sud 2-door saloon too, which was reliable fun; v good. Enjoyed them more than the subsequently owned Alfettas and the Guilietta. What a shame that all of their best cars melted in the rain.
Sudsprint Posted April 21, 2015 Author Posted April 21, 2015 Progress to report: Wings doors and tailgate (etc) refitted. Bumpers back on. She has been sprayed and waiting for glass, grill and lights... catsinthewelder, holbeck, Jim Bergerac and 24 others 27
Sudsprint Posted April 21, 2015 Author Posted April 21, 2015 Unfortunately my super comfortable Alfa 33 seats will have to be replaced for the MOT as they only bolt down on one side! So I have to refix the knackered old originals. Keep toying with fitting a vinyl webasto I have in the roof but now that seems a crime its all sprayed up. Will fit the NOS steel wheels when I get her back as well.
vulgalour Posted April 21, 2015 Posted April 21, 2015 You've got that all lovely and gorgeous, it would be lunacy to put a Webasto in it, just look at it! What a lovely thing, and a really unusual colour. stripped fred 1
mercrocker Posted April 21, 2015 Posted April 21, 2015 Stunning little car. Top marks for keeping that colour. If it were me (and I know it isn't...) that Webasto would stay in the attic where its nice and dry. On the other hand....I see your dilemma.
stripped fred Posted April 21, 2015 Posted April 21, 2015 I would leave the webasto roof off. That's a nice looking car as it is.
The Reverend Bluejeans Posted April 21, 2015 Posted April 21, 2015 According to Doooovla, I still own a 1976 Alfasud Ti that I bought 30 years ago. They sent me a new logbook for it last year - totally unsolicited. Yet after 5 weeks they STILL haven't sent me the one I actually applied for. I had 10-15 Suds back in the eighties. I had 4-5 Sprints as well. Two were 1.5 Green Cloverleafs on A plates (plastic bumpers) and one was a plastic bumpered 1.3 Sprint on a B plate in a pale metallic green. One was a T plate 1.5 Veloce (a very early one) in silver that I bought for the engine to go into a 1.3 Alfa 33. One kick and the entire filler crafted rear arch fell off.The really unusual one was bought 20 years ago. There were two Sprints rotting on a driveway in Headington (Oxford) that I bought for 50 quid the pair. One was a 1984 1.3, the other was the most spectacularly rotten S reg Sprint 1300, a very early one. It was so ratfucked it virtually broke up as I pulled it onto the trailer. The engine though was odd. Opened the bonnet (it thus fell off) and there was a very crusty looking twin carb motor. But it was odd because unlike the factory Veloce, the inlet manifold stretched from one bank to the other with a 40DCNF perched on each end. I removed the engine (by sneezing loudly) whipped the sump off and it had a specially made 1600 conversion as made by Gordon Allen complete with a superbly machined EN40B crank made from a billet. It must have cost a fortune new and I got a lot of coins for it. BavarianRetro 1
The Reverend Bluejeans Posted April 21, 2015 Posted April 21, 2015 There weren't that many red Suds about iirc. Many were silver, green, and ivory. My favourite was Possilipo blue, a really nice non metallic dark blue that polished up well.
Junkman Posted April 21, 2015 Posted April 21, 2015 Yeah, but who doesn't paint a classic car resale red nowadays?
xtriple Posted April 21, 2015 Posted April 21, 2015 I had a 'sud sprint green cloverleaf back in about 85 or 6. It was one of the last on a 'B' reg and I'm pretty sure it was a 1.7? It was fooking lovely! Went like a rocket and looked great (met silver) and NO RUST!!!! Seriously, not a spot... anywhere. Had to sell it as I had my first Lotus at the time and it was trying to bankrupt me with engine problems. I was so depressed to be selling the 'Sud, I didn't even speak to the buyer, just left my wife to deal with him. Actually, I might be talking out of my arse. It could have been just an ordinary 'Sud green cloverleaf.... I really can't remember, the sun has rotted my brain!
Sudsprint Posted April 21, 2015 Author Posted April 21, 2015 Yeah, but who doesn't paint a classic car resale red nowadays? Strangely enough I have always thought 'chrome bumper' Suds and Fiat 128 3Ps look great in red and I would have bought a red one if I had found one. I had nearly bought this green 'un once before and when it was up for less money two years later I had to have it.
cort1977 Posted April 21, 2015 Posted April 21, 2015 That is just amazing, so much want here. I feel like that bloke in the dungeon in Monty Python. 'You lucky, lucky, lucky bastard'
DodgyBastard Posted April 21, 2015 Posted April 21, 2015 Really need to do something with our sprint! DSC_8537 by srblythe, on Flickr
Skizzer Posted April 21, 2015 Posted April 21, 2015 That's just gorgeous. Deeply, deeply jealous. My best mate had one of these when I was 17, a W-plate chrome bumper 1.5, until he clipped a kerb and the front third fell off. Fabulous car for blatting round Mid and South Wales in.
Sudsprint Posted May 22, 2015 Author Posted May 22, 2015 She's just about done. Old seats re-fitted today as the Recaros I had in there had narrower rails and were an (advised) MOT fail. Collecting her in about 10 days for the first time on the road in five years. garethj, Vin, warren t claim and 6 others 9
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