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■ Alfisti Issue 187 ■ July 2016

EDITORIAL

I will never forget Midlands Italian Car Day 2010

at Chatsworth. Arriving at 8am, the field (pictured

above) was empty, bar about 100 sheep! An over-

early arrival in his Fiat Panda was very handy to

have as he did his best to help shepherd them

down to the far end of the site. During the morning

the cars just kept coming and coming, Our

conservative on the day was 460. We had house

admission discount passes for about 400 cars,

thinking that may have been too many, so we had

to get very creative with MITCAR stickers for the

‘excess!’ One other exciting moment was when the

aforesaid sheep decided to make a break for it

through our entrance gate... Seeing them skipping

high in the air over the front of some immaculate

Fiat Dinos rather sticks in the memory!

Six years on the same area will be used for

National Alfa Day 2016, and an even bigger

attendance is expected, There will be trade stands,

model parking, dealer displays and the National

AROC Concours d'Elegance. Lots to see and do in

our area, then there is the grand house itself and

its magnificent gardens, plus a kids adventure play

area and lots more. Standard admission to ’NAD’

gets your car and all occupants in the main display

area and at the entrance you will receive a pass

that you can show at the public gate to receive a

substantial discount on admission, paying £13 per

adult rather than £20. Members can get an

advance display area car ticket for £8 via the link

on the Club’s main website - that gets you a ‘print

your own’ ticket. Otherwise it is £10 per car on the

day (for members’ or non-members’ cars). Anyway

it is shaping up to be a terrific day out in some

beautiful countryside.

As you will see inside, June was a tremendously

busy month for our Section with what felt like

something on every weekend. (Well there was if

you went to Cotswolds Alfa Day!) Thanks for the

terrific support at the Fun Concours Night and the

Fox Run in particular. The Glider Centre day was

sadly rain affected but we had a decent number

over to the first ‘Forza LIVE’ event from the Fiat

boys. Now July still has 3 events - 4 counting

AROC’s presence at The Silverstone Classic

Weekend, so again lots to do this month I’m on

holiday at the end of July so will miss the Melton

Mowbray event again, but I gather it was really

good last year and kindly Graeme and Shona are

organising things there for us. Our ‘Summertime

Spin’ evening promises to be fun again too on 8

July at the G&D… You can’t say we’re inactive

anyway! I look forward to seeing you

at the G&D and of course ‘NAD’ -

hope you can make it. John

NATIONAL ALFA DAY!

INSIDE:

Fun Concours Night

The Fox Run

Glider Centre Open Day

Giulia UK Launch

Forza LIVE!

and more

Alfisti is edited and produced by

John Griffiths AROC East Midlands Section Secretary

Tel: 0774 8881317

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Sunday 10 July at Chatsworth House

OFFICIAL ALFA ROMEO OWNERS CLUB

NEWSLETTER FOR THE EAST MIDLANDS

Summertime Spin Wednesday 13 July from 7pm

George & Dragon, Thringstone

Assuming we have good weather, our July

meeting will include a convoy run around the

local lanes. That will leave at around 7.45, lasting

for about 30minutes. Section Dep Chairman

Brian Smith will lead the way, possibly in his 4C

Spider, so if we lose sight we will still probably be

able to hear him! We always enjoy the summer

evenings at the George & Dragon. Food is served

until 9pm, so if you fancy eating there will be

plenty of time to order after the run.

Classic Car Evening Melton Mowbray Town Centre

Friday 29 July from 6pm onwards

We are repeating our trip to Melton which was

enjoyed by many last July and despite the title, all

Alfas are welcome, new or old. Around 50 to 60

assorted classic cars gather on every last Friday

of the month in Melton Mowbray town centre, and

for this edition again we’ve organised for all Alfas

to park there too. Section Regulars Graeme

Chessum with his partner Shona are kindly co-

ordinating things with the event’s organiser. Just

like last year, our Alfas will be parked at the north

end of the High Street close to Argos. To get

there it is best to turn into the west end of High

Street from Wilton Road (Iceland store on the

corner.) Then it is second left (also called High

Street), and Argos is just up there.

Chatsworth 2010 - the biggest MITCAR event to date.

Our Alfas on the Summertime Spin.

The fantastic new Giulia finally launched in UK! See inside….

@AROCeastmids

ALFISTI - AROC East Midlands Section Newsletter July 2016 - Issue 187

Goodwood Festival of Speed

“Alfa Romeo will be demonstrating the full power of the marque when the

Italian brand debuts the all-new Alfa Romeo Giulia in the UK for the first

time at the Goodwood Festival of Speed (23 - 26 June) alongside some of

the greatest racing vehicles in its illustrious history.”

With this press release in mind, several members of our Section trekked

down to Glorious Goodwood on the Thursday ‘press day’ to witness the

Giulia in the metal. Setting off bright and very early - OK, very early - I arrived

with Keith Krog, his son StJohn and Brian Smith in the depths of the

Hampshire countryside and the famous hill climb course in Lord March’s

back garden. I won’t go on about the journey—suffice to say in the

downpours it was a bit grim and 5 hours long! Jamie Porter’s 147 1.6

‘loaner’ Keith had was brilliant though. 83K on the clock but fresh as a

daisy!

Now, once at the show and having negotiated the Glastonbury-style

quagmire, the Alfa Romeo ‘stand’ was suitably impressive. As well as the

Giulia, we had the first appearance of the new MiTo with its Giulia-style nose,

plus the Giulietta.

A snapshot of Alfa Romeo's legendary motorsport heritage was also on

display at the Festival, with an Alfa Romeo Giulia GTAm, Alfa Romeo 33/3 Le

Mans Spider and an Alfa Romeo 33 TT 12 present. An original 1963 Giulia

TI Super was also shown alongside its new namesake on the Alfa Romeo

stand.

Completing the Alfa Romeo line up on the stand was one of only 50 Alfa

Romeo 4C Spider Limited Editions, created to pay homage to 50 years of the

Alfa Romeo Spider. (Basically a 4C Spider loaded with extras, and very nice

too!)

So - what of the Giulia then? Well, first up on the stand was a LHD

standard version, in Italian ‘Super’ spec with the manual gearbox. It was in

Vesuvio grey with the 18 inch turbine alloys, which are a dark silver. The

cabin felt terrific with some real quality touches. The little things like the feel

of the dolls-eye airvents, the positive click of the controls, the perfectly –

sized steering wheel (it’s a PEACH - complete with starter button), and the

excellent infotainment screen that disappears behind matt glass when off. I

seriously don’t get the ‘criticism’ from the journalists, it’s top-notch, and the

driving position excellent. Another brilliant detail, the weighting/damping of

the bootlid. Just try it when you can. Real thought has gone into that - oh

and the boot space is really big too.

Now, inside the stand the Giulia Quadrifoglio. The version shown in

Competizione Red with standard leather/Alcantara seats, and MASSIVE

(optional) carbon/ceramic brakes. (@ 6K we’re told.) The carbon bonnet is a

work of art and it has to be one of the most impressive under-bonnets in the

market today. The car running up the hill was a QF in black with the

optional carbon-shell seats. They are gorgeous and surprisingly comfortable.

The obnly price revealed at the show was for the QF: £59K OTR before

extras, though the standard kit count is apparently very high. Equivalent C-

Class AMG S (same power LOTS more weight) is around 10K more expensive

specified like for like.

We’re used to the 2016 Giulietta now (example shown in bright Alfa white

in Veloce Spec—beautiful), and this was joined by a white MiTo Veloce.

They’ve done a brilliant job with the new design nosecone, and with 18” 5-

hole alloys in grey it looked superb we thought.

The race cars and super cars in the paddock were just amazing. WAY too

many to mention, we fell in love with many. Goodwood FoS is an amazing

event, I fully recommend this ‘quieter’ press day if you want to get close to

things.

Back to Alfa and it was great to speak to UK Head of Brand Damian Dally

again and many of his management team. So much good stuff to come too,

theirs a real spring on their steps. Thanks to Paul Jones for sorting our

invitations, and great to see Chris Variava, Rob, Steve Bestwick, Steve

Weston and Salvatore there too. The Peroni was very welcome in the

hospitality area!

So, when does everyone get to see the Giulia? Well, you’ll hear about it

very soon. Keep an eye on our AROC communications! Meantime, believe

me, it’s a belter. John (See Giulia photos on page 6. LOTS on our website.)

Our Fox Run this year was a bit different from normal.

We basically wanted to attach a morning drive to a

long Italian lunch rather than focusing on a

navigational run as in years’ past. So out went the

Tulip instructions, in came a convoy run….

We met up at our normal monthly meeting venue,

The George & Dragon at Thringstone, for bacon

butties and a coffee at 10am. It wasn’t long before

the sun broke through and things started to warm up,

with the pub’s long line of flags put up specially for

the Euro 2016 Championship forming a super

backdrop for our Alfa Romeos.

Brian Smith was the route designer and he kindly

brought along a number of route plans to dish

out Sadly, the initial part of stage 1 was scuppered as

the council was gritting the main road, but we soon

got around that with a crafty diversion!

After about half an hour’s meander across north

west Leicestershire we arrived at the half way point—

Quorndon and Woodhouse railway station on the

Great Central steam line. Now, we timed it perfectly

to coincide with their D-Day event. We were able to

park up near the exit, and after a group donation to

the railway, we could spend best part of an hour

seeing the steam and classic diesel engines come

and go and to take in the ‘wartime’ atmosphere.

There were lots of people in 1940s costume, both

civilian and army, tanks, guns, rows of army tents,

NAAFI wagons, even full-scale (and part scale)

Spitfires. Brian and I will keep people guessing over

whether this was all planned or not forf our event of

course… Brian was great leading the way on his 4C

Spider anyway, a model of throttle restraint!

Anyway, after best part of an hour’s look around we

departed for stage 2, the run through many very

leafy lanes back to Coalville and the wonderful

Ristorante that is La Torre. Chief Chef Fabio was in

charge, and our three course meal was as fantastic

as ever; La Torre being our normal venue for the New

Year Meal. It was a very relaxing afternoon - great to

have 4 youngsters along among our number (46 I

think?) plus the Section’s newest recruit, Sofia, the

beautiful 4-week-old baby belonging to Steve and

Nicki Weston.

All in all a really enjoyable day, helped by some

proper summer weather but mainly the great

company. Thanks again to everyone. John

(As ever, lots more photos on our website!)


Charnwood and La Torre

PHOTOS - top, part of our group of 29 Alfas at the G&D, Above - Peter Vaughan’s lovely Alfasud Sprint. Below, left to right - Steam train and 1940s scene at the station. Beautiful Spitfire recreation. Some of our cars a the half-way point. Spiders together! Bottom line Left to right; Mark Gunston’s 4C forging through. Our party in La Torre - at the tip end for a change. Graham Would’s GT in convoy under the trees. (Photos by John, Chris Jesson and Janet Hood) .

Above - Peter and Eileen Crichton’s 1750 GTV Above - Sal Vitale’s 156 GTA which one the ’Real Effort’ award. Above - Mike Swinfen studies Brian Smith’s rather dirty 155!


Our Fun Concours is always a really popular event and though we were short of a few of our

‘regulars’ we were delighted to have 42 Alfas taking part, including several first-timers. We even

roped in Carl & Heather Scott who had turned up on-spec on the night with their silver GT!

In raw numbers, in addition to the Cherry and the 595 we had 7 ‘new’ Giuliettas, 1 MiTo, 2

Breras, 1 939 Spider, 1 159, 4 GTs, 4 916 GTVs, 5 916 Spiders, 2 156s, 1 147, 1 155, 2 166s, 1

Giulia Spider, 3 Bertone coupes and 1 Alfetta Coupe. So - a really good variety from the 1960s to

date. Strangely the 3 Alfa 4C owners present brought their alternative Alfas—and Keith Krog left his

SZ in the garage as it is in need of a cambelt, but there was plenty to enjoy looking at of course,

As per tradition, everyone present had a voting sheet for the 10 prize categories, and after

around 45 minutes consideration all the votes were called in and totted up. Owing to how

beautifully prepared so many cars were the voting was as well spread as ever - though there were

some ‘stand outs’, notably for the ‘dirty car’ categories where it was very close run between Brian

Smith’s 155 and Graeme Chessum’s GT!.

Our June meeting at the

George & Dragon, Thringstone

Choosing your favourite car was as difficult as ever as the cars were so well presented,

Indeed for some categories 50% of the cars received votes! Anyway after the lengthy

totting up the prize winners were as follows:

Shiniest Paintwork: Viv Stephens, GTV Cup

Dirtiest Paintwork: Brian Smith, 155

Cleanest Wheels: Gavin Childs, 159Ti

Dirtiest Wheels: Graeme Chessum, GT

Cleanest Interior: Roger Smith, 916 Spider

Most annoying dent or chip: Ian Jephcott, 166

Cleanest Engine Bay: Marcus Lee, 147 GTA

‘Needs a bit of work’: Dave Roberts, Nissan Cherry Europe

‘Real Effort’: Salvatore Vitale, 156 GTA

Car of the Night - FIRST: John Vincent, 1300 GT Junior

Car of the Night Runner Up: Viv Stephens, GTV Cup

Despite there being at least 12 new people along this time and involved in the public

vote of course, the ‘1 and 2’ were the same as last year. How about that?

Thanks to everyone who came along to make it such a good evening and to Chris

Variava and B&W AutoCare (Autoglym) for their prize donations. John Above - Viv Stephen’s GTV Cup won ‘Shiniest Paint’ and was the runner up in the ‘Car of the Night’ category.

Above, John G presents John Vincent (on right) with his prizes for Car of the Night. John’s car, left, is a very smartly prepared 1300 GT Junior which is used in classic navigational rally events.

Below - the rarest car of the night was this remarkable Nissan Cherry Europe 1.2 belonging to Dave Roberts. This is effectively a ‘barn find’ and once seen he had to have it! The car was also sold as the Alfa Romeo ARNA, a child of the early 1980s it was built in Italy with the Nissan shell but Alfasud boxer engine running gear. Hardly any left!

Gliding Centre Open Day, 12 June. We had a very enjoyable day at the Gliding Centre at Husbands Bosworth

in 2015, sadly this year it was badly affected by the weather. Low cloud

and drizzle meant the planes couldn’t get up, and even the model

aircraft displays were scrapped.

Still, 10 Alfas congregated for the our line up display, at different times

though, and the club house was put to good use when the drizzle

started. The bacon butties were great!

With weather forecast the whole event seemed to be scaled back a

tad, which was a real shame. The arrival of a bright orange Lamborghini

Aventador SV was fun in the morning though - what a machine! The day

saw first appearance of Dave Atkins’ very rare 155 Q4 too. Dave loves

his unusual Alfas and this one is a cracker. For the uninitiated, this was

the first high-performance 155, with 2.0 Turbo-charged engine and a

permanent four-wheel drive powertrain, both derived from the Lancia

Delta Integrale; it was essentially a Lancia Delta Integrale with a different

body. Running 190PS and 215 lbs/ft of torque, 0-60 is dealt with in just

under 7 seconds. Now, these appeared in ‘narrow body’ guise foirst in

1993 - and was the homologation basis for the amazing DTM-winning

155 V6 Ti. Dave’s is a slightly later example with the attractive wide-

body set up and Sport kit - including the 16in Speedline alloys. It was

originally registered in France. It’s a lovely car anyway.

So - we’re looking forward to the bigger version of this event on 4

September - the Leicester Aero Club Open Day. Hopefully we’ll have

some blue skies and sunshine for that one. John


Much discussion over Mark Gunston’s Alfetta GT Our posse on the night David Lawton’s Spider

Barely a spot left in the paddock area. Great stuff.

Above - Gliders, grounded. Note low cloud! Above - Demo Gazelle. Quite a machine.

Above - He’s a bit low. Actually, an impressive model. Above - Hovercraft rides

Dave leans on his new 155 Q4

Bugs We’re getting to that time now

where almost every journey means a

windscreen and front bumper

splattered with dead bugs After one

of my recent journeys the nose of

my Giulietta looked like some kind

of insect Valhalla. They soon seem

to get baked on too. So, best ways of shifting them. A good

shampoo will soften them eventually, but I prefer to use a chemical

attack, especially if the rest of the car is clean and I don’t want a

bucket out. In some past editions I’ve mentioned Car Plan’s bright

pink product ‘Bug Blitz’, and it is good, but recently I’ve been trying

some others. Firstly, the good old ‘All Purpose Cleaner’ I wrote

about in the April edition of the Club magazine, Flash Liquid

(diluted 10:1 with water). It’s surprisingly good, but not super-fast

acting. The products below are more specialist. Angelwax Revenge

is available online for £6.99 for 500ml (plus delivery), it has a

pleasant Citrus smell and can be used ‘solus’ - ie sprayed on with

bugs wiped away with a cloth (a bit messy!) or as a solvent that is

then shampoo washed off. Actually I bought some 2 years ago for

my car Detailing bag and still have lots left. Now I am also a sucker

for a bargain and spotting a 500ml trigger bottle of Simoniz ‘Insect

& Tar Remover’ in my local Tesco I had to try it when I saw it was

only £2.50! As a dual-

purpose product it is

essentially a

detergent, and on

bugs it does a decent

job. As with Revenge,

spray on, leave to

penetrate and then

wipe away. It is good

on windscreens

without reverting to

gallons of screen

cleaner or a bucket of

water. Revenge is

clearly better, but the

Simoniz product does

a decent job. John

Alfa Giulietta TCR Series Update The Romeo Ferraris team who are developing the Giulietta TCR race car ended up

missing two rounds, including the only Italian round at Imola, as it sort to get its

charger completely sorted after a succession of issues.. The car appears to have

been thoroughly rebuilt

and the BEST news is it

is now in proper Alfa

Racing Red!! Two cars

are now racing, piloted

by Michela Cerruti and

Petr Fulin. At

Salzburgring Michela

brought the car in 8th

place in Race 1, a very

decent result. The car’s

new aero helping. The

car is expected to get

the 2L Giulia engine

soon too…

New boss of Alfa Romeo and Maserati ….is an American! Reid Bigland takes over from Harald Wester after his 4 years at

the helm. Reid has managed the American FCA arm for the past six years. 48-year-

old Bigland is ten years younger than his German predecessor and has dual US and

Canadian citizenship. Bigland has extensive experience in the commercial field and,

according to overall boss Marchionne, the key man for helping Alfa Romeo’s major

new model push. Maserati, especially in the US market, could use a nudge in the

right direction too. But

Marchionne sees

Bigland also a talent to

best glands well the

global market. Over the

past 7 years has

Bigland in the US

reached the necessary

commercial success

with FCA. Harald

Wester will take place

in the top board.

Marchionne’s

successor in 2018??


Giulia Order Book is OPEN!! For the best AROC Member deals,

call Alfa Sales on 0115 855 3060

431-461 Nottingham Rd, Basford, Nottingham, NG6 0FB - A few photos here of the fantastic new Alfa at the Goodwood Festival of Speed.

Giulia Quadrifoglio Giulia ‘Super

Date Activities through to October

Sun 10 July 2016

National Alfa Day at Chatsworth House, Derbyshire. Wonderful venue with a fabulous house and extensive gardens. Discount admission for AROC members - advance tickets via www.aroc-uk.com.

Wed 13 July 2016 from 7pm

Summertime Spin at The George & Dragon in Thringstone - starting at 7pm. Our regular meeting includes a drive around the local lanes and villages.

Fri 29 July from 6.30pm on.

Classic Car Evening - Melton Mowbray. Around 50 Classic Cars gather in the town centre from 6pm ‘til Dusk. Special AROC parking area. All Alfas welcome of any age. See cover.

Sat 6 August from 8.30am

Bruntingthorpe ‘On Your Marks’ Charity day. Air display including B17 Flying Fortress, Lightning runway run, supercar hot laps, rally cars, trikes, truck driving, many ‘do yourself’ things at just £5 a go! Admission £10 per car. Bruntingthorpe Proving Grounds, south Leics.

Wed 10 August 2016 from 7pm

Barbecue Night at The George & Dragon in Thringstone - starting at 7pm. With barbecue bites at super-low prices! Will go ahead even if raining. (Bring brolly)

Sun 28 August 2016

MITCAR 2016 - Midlands Italian Car Day. Our Section’s BIG event at the fantastic British Motor Museum, Gaydon, Warwickshire. Discount advance tickets available, see MITCAR pages on our website for more details and link to buy tickets.

Sun 4 Sept from 10.30am

Leicester Aero Club Open Day - at Leicester Airport (aka Stoughton Aerodrome), including air displays, special Alfa display and potential free pleasure flights too! Starts at 10.30am. The fantastic WW2 'War Birds' are expected again this year. Admission is FREE to Club members

Weds 14 Sept from 7pm

Twilight Drive at our regular Monthly Meeting at The George & Dragon in Thringstone - starting at 7pm. Drive will start at a little after 7.30 lasting around 30 minutes. We’ll follow that with a drink and a good natter in the pub. (Pub food available ’til 9pm)

TBC Sept from 6.30pm

Rolling Road Night – Back to Future Motor Sports in Syston for a super night on the Dynamometer to measure the power of our Alfas! Just £30 for 3 power runs. We’ll have a barbecue there too. (All Non-Alfas welcome. Please note that Alfas with TCT gearboxes cannot be measured.)

TBC Sept from 6.30pm

Karting Night at Sutton Circuit, Broughton Astley. Fantastic outdoor track. Racing followed by the pub! Cost @£40 a head in an endurance style race in teams of 2, 3 or 4 depending on overall numbers. Brilliant fun – friends and family very welcome. Please contact John to reserve your spot on the grid!

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LOTS to come this year - always keep an eye on our website too.

AROC East Midlands Section Events 2016

The Small Print: Alfisti is the newsletter of the Alfa Romeo Owners’ Club UK East Midlands Section. Chris Variava Alfa Romeo Nottingham supports the cost of Alfisti’s printed production carried out at cost rate by a Section Member’s company. Alfa Romeo Owners’ Club UK ltd cannot endorse or recommend services or products advertised in its publications. Any opinions published in ‘Alfisti’ or its sister website, Twitter account and Facebook group are personal ones. Alfa Romeo Owners’ Club Ltd registered Number 01106134. Please contact John Griffiths if you have any queries about the Club or our active local Area Section. See cover for contact details.

Gazetta News Snippets

TWITTER TIME

Our Twitter account now has over 400

followers - and some are even our local

members! That’s the nature of the beast

though. Anyway, with nearly 6,000 Tweets

having been sent in about 2 years, we push

lots of Alfa information - and the odd

entertaining comment too. Twitter is a lot of

fun. It’s easy to set up an account and

follow friends, stars, companies, and there

is LOADS of car related content. Our

account to follow is @AROCeastmids

CARBON PARTS FOR 4C KOSHI GROUP

The Koshi Group is manufacturing a range

of 4C components in Carbon Fibre. All

sorts from spoilers and interior parts to

engine covers. Probably the most

impressive parts are the replacement door

cards. These add a real touch of additional

glamour. Just €1,500 a pair… They also

make components for Giulietta and MiTo.

See their website, www.koshigroup.com.

BRUNTINGTHORPE ‘On Your Marks’

Saturday 6 August - just £10 per car

Fantastic family fun day for charity

supported by Asda.

Supercar passenger laps, 44 tonne truck

driving, trikes, karting, Rally car co-driving,

and more just £5 a go!! Driving displays,

air displays including the fabulous B17

‘Sally B’ and Spitfires, and English Electric

Lightning afterburner runway run!!

Rea l fun day out. This is just a special

extra for us - no Club parking or anything

but will be a very enjoyable day out.

It’s the ‘Scouse Carabinieri

Steve McCall, known by many from Alfa

Driver magazine as the ‘Scouse Taxi Man’,

has created this fun ‘Carabinieri’ 159. Will

be for sale soon but catch it at NAD….

Forza LIVE! At MFN, 19 June.

Fiat Forum's ForzaLIVE! event was fun at

Shipley Gate near Eastwood. ’Miles from

Nowhere’ is essentially a large biker-friendly

pub owned by ex-Showaddywaddy drummer

Malcom Allured. It has a mix of hard standing,

gravel and grass paddock areas, though

some was waterlogged.

Getting on for 100 Italian cars arrived

during the day, which was less than hoped

for, that including around 20 or so Alfas.

Amongst them 2 4C Spiders (CV's and Brian

Smith's), and 3 show cars from Chris

Variava. Declan Gray had his black MiTo

Cloverleaf in the ‘Show and Shine’

competition which was very well presented,

but Fiats won out for the prizes. There were

Some really fun cars there - especially the

creative Fiats.

During the morning we welcomed all Alfas

into our line up including 3 cars we’d not seen

before from elsewhere in the country. (No

sign of ‘Alfabook’ incidentally.) Anyway, big

thanks to Dom and the FF events team for

putting on a very enjoyable day Our Section

will support the event again. Avoiding Fathers'

Day will get more along I am sure. Pitty the

rolling road had broken, that's the fun of

putting on events I guess - but the Gelato

definitely made up for it! John


More photos on our website

Alfisti no.188 will be out in August

Alfisti’s production is sponsored by Chris Variava Alfa Romeo Nottingham

Giulia 1300 Ti - Dave Atkins‘Classics moving on #2’

Dave is another guy with more than the odd car! After over a year with this

classic he fancies a change so his Giulia went up for sale in May. The Giulia

lived in Italy for the

bulk of its life, but

has only amassed

24,000kms since its

registration in 1970!

With a fabulously

original interior to

match, it’s a real

’time warp’ machine

that’s also had

some recent

mechanical fettling.

(See Dave’s ‘new’

155 Q4 on page 5.)

Unusual news from the world of motoring

- SCOOP! -

New Alfa ‘Full Size’

SUV spotted

Keen to compete with the

BMW X5, Alfa’s full-size

SUV is expected to be

launched in late 2017

after it’s medium size one,

the Stelvio. Captured here,

it appears the name Stralis

will be used. Alfa Romeo

spokes person, Al Faspoke

Spersson, stated; ‘Yes it

will be quite a big machine,

but of course still smaller

than the Audi Q7”.

Alfetta GT 1.8 - Mark Gunston ‘Classics moving on #1’

Mark’s got more than the odd Italian car, including a rather fab just0acquired

4C LE, but sadly a limit on storage space, so his Silver Machine has got to go.

It had some

mechanical

fettling just

before going up

for sale so was

in perfect order.

Such a charact-

erful car with

the (bonkers)

‘split’ dash, and

loads of unique

features.

Someone will

get a beauty.

Spider 2000 -

Andy Sturt

Andy and Cynthia

joined in our Fox Run in June on their

delightful Spider. It was perfect

weather for top down motoring too!

In Pininfarina red with its period

Campagnolo alloys the car looked

great too!

Giulietta Quadrifoglio Verde - Alex Pope

From an email to John: Having said I'd cracked voice control I had the

classic case the other day of telling it to call dad, and it placing a call to

some random in my phonebook who I haven't spoken to in years. Cue frantic

scrambling for cancel button and going back to using the screen...

On the fuel front, just scored a record 43.6 on a steady run from Notts to

Northants. Included a

cold start but, having left

adequate time for the

journey for once, I was

consciously trying to

cruise around 70mph. So

it can do good cruising

economy as well as

demolishing back roads!

My love & respect for the

thing is undiminished 7k

miles in :) Alex

Alfa Spider - Derek Duffill

Derek and his wife Pat joined in the Fox run in their lovely bright silver 939

Spider. Fitted with deep red leather it is a bit of an unusal colour

combination for

the Spider (we

see more in red

black and white),

but it works

really well.

Derek has also

replaced its

alloys with new

ones via Veloces

- Giulietta

Cloverleaf style

which really suit

the car.

1750 GTV - Phil Levell

Phil apologises for not being at many meetings lately, he’s a very busy guy, but

we will see him along soon and certainly at National Alfa Day. His lovely

Bertone Coupe has had various fettling lately, It has fibreglass wings all-round

and these were expertly aligned last year, this year has been more about

getting it mechanically sorted, and a major service at Jamie Porter’s Alfa

Workshop in March helping a great deal. With the car being a classic step-

front, Phil was

considering

fitting GTA-

style door

handles and

badges, but

he’s decided

against that

for now.

We may well

see Phil’s

Bertone in the

AROC

Concours too…

Go for it Phil!

FOR SALE: 159 Turismo 2.0 JTDm - Keith Millard

Ill health forces reluctant sale. Economical 120bhp 8v engine, just 43,000

miles. Cambelts just replaced, new clutch assembly, new battery.

Sensible offers please.

Keith

Contact 01530 414057

(Keith is in Ashby)

(Late model 159 with

the rare and very

economical diesel that

drives well with lots of

torque. It is very well

presented looking great

in high-gloss black with

grey “Alfatex” trim —

John.)

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