Greetings to all members

[Veloce75za]

Hello there, I am new to Alfisti.net, but not to our beloved Alfa Romeo. My name is Trevor, I am lucky enough to be invovled with Alfa's all day long!!! I work for Alfissimo Alfa Romeo in South Africa and I am also on the committee of various Alfa Clubs. I am 28 years old and I have had 18 Alfa's in this time. I currently have a 155 v6 (wide body) Silverstone replica (Red of course) it has many mods! I also have a 147 which is my girlfriends car, and I have a 72 Giulia 1.6 classic racer. The Giulia is also a road car and one of my all time favourite Alfa's. I am looking forward to many talks and discussions with you all!!!

[156pilot]

Schön!
:-]

[KJE]

Hi Trevor - welcome! I'm also new to the board, but have had a 76 Alfa Spider for about 10 years. Its in the USA, I'm in Germany for 3 years, but in the meantime I'm driving a 156.

Have any on-line pictures of your Alfas??

later

Kurt

[155Super]

Hi Trevor an all

I am also a newbie here and hope to be joining you guys often. Like Trevor I am also from South Africa and stay in Centurion.

I drive a 1996 155 2.0 16V Super and a 1984 GTV6 3.0 . (Also a 83 Range Rover but we'll leave that for the ZALRO forum ;) )

I am experiencing some electrical problems with my 155 currently but more of that on a seperate thread!

Ciao
AR155 :-]

[Veloce75za]

Yes of course! I will send pics in a few days when I have all the cars at home!

Might need some help to upload them on to the site.

Cheers!

[KJE]

cool good to hear from SA!

I have one, pretty bad picture of my Spider on-line here in the "Misc Car pix" folder:

http://briefcase.yahoo.com/kedelbach

The other weekend I had an '02 Spider 1.8 TS (I think, maybe 2L) loaner while the dealer tries to fix the electionic problems my JTS SW is having. They claim a small, hungry animal chewed some important bits. At least it had good taste!

Anyway, I electrical taped my digital camcorder to the read deck and tackled some of the great back roads around my town. Will post clips as soon as I get some more time to fiddle with my video editing system. They really came out great! The spider is just fun fun fun. Huge 17" wheels/Goodyear F1 tires made it stick like glue, didn't push it quite to 10/10 but really did work it. Clutch felt better than my 156 (firmer), and the sound was more sweet (louder :)

Just had a 3 hour blast on the autobahn in another loaner: JTS 156 (non wagon). I am going to have one hell of a time re-adjusting to US speed limits... cruising at 200 kph just seems natural now... I feel a little bad giving her the spurs like this with only 2000 kms on the clock, but the dealer could have always given me the V6 in the lot...

Also tasted the new 147. Stylish, quick enough, but just didn't feel sporty from the drivers seat. Too big inside? Seating too upright? Can't put my finger on it but I just came away feeling the car was made for women (sorry in advance to any hard-core women on the board). The clutch pedal felt like I could depress it with 1 finger. Yuck.

I am starting to get a little peeved at some problems on these new alfas... On the loaner 156: non-working front left speaker, crazy trip-computer (tells me I averaged 254 kph), skipping CD player, headlight switch you have to jiggle to turn on... but honestly most of these are defects the dealer should discover and fix, so I'm not totally soured on new Alfas (yet).

looking forward to seeing the pix Trevor - you have quite the stable of choice Alfas! Love the old Giulias.... and the V6 GTV is very quirky cool. I briefly had a 4 cyl Alfetta and can imagine how much fun the 6 is.

[Veloce75za]

Hi Guys,

Have some pics now, but have no clue how to upload them to the site, maybe I can email them and someone can post them for me?

Cheers!

[KJE]

Trevor - I'd be happy to put them in my Yahoo briefcase linked above - or you can easily open one for yourself. Not the slickest way to do it, but free and fairly easy. You get like 15 or 30 Mb free, I pay $2 per month for 80 mb of storage. www.yahoo.com has treated me well enough for a (almost) free service - no major complaints.

I would say email me the pixs, but I leave for a 10 day sailing vacation tomorrow and want to keep my (also free) email as clear as possible. Impossible to do with about 20 spam emails coming in per day... it'll be filled up in no time...

later