Automotive

The glorious 2,6l V8 powered Alfa Romeo Montreal. A little gem from the 1970s 👌🏻 I wonder if any members (looking at you, Cazalea 😁🤞🏻) have first hand experience with the car? 👍🏻 ...  

The car looked beautiful in orange. One of the difficulties with maintaining this car is the fuel injection system. Advanced back in the day but problematic to maintain. I passed on the opportunity but remember driving it vividly ! Best Captain

I like my classic cars well maintained and this one needed a little TLC. Looked very good on the outside, suspension needed a revamp and the tyres needed replacing on all four corners. The throttle / injection needed recalibrating below 3,000 rpm little h... 

At the end of the day one should not regret such decisions too much in hindsight - so good to know 👍🏻

and or joy for nostalgia sometimes gets the better of our judgment when it comes to classic cars.

We must discuss this at length sometime soon. I have a few stories for you 😉

But thats it. 😂😂

Would have preferred it in a more 70s color, though 😁

One of my editors, an Alfa fanatic, owned one. I can recall he said the parts were hard to obtain which was a shame because it was fragile, but I suppose that's the case of most Alfas in the US.

to which his mechanic sadly replied, "You can go plenty wrong, my young friend, plenty wrong!" ...  

That many prestigious brands from back in the day were the precursors to Tesla in this respect - by making the customers the beta testers, since they couldn’t afford it themselves (Tesla does it for different reasons) 😊

Seemingly most vintage Citroens with a reputation for being temperamental running much better now than new simply as a result of being taken care by people who are trained and experienced enough to know what the cars require 😊

It was technology that didn’t usually get offered at that level. The hydropneumatic suspension was borrowed by Rolls Royce and Mercedes for instance 👍🏻

Even if you kept it unused in a garage you would probably get a very nice return on investment 👍🏻

Especially if you drive it daily, like the Volvo. Bit the prices have gone through the roof - compared to that level - since.

Organizing a proper parts supply back in the day on an American geographic scale proved to much for most - especially since they couldn’t fathom it from their European perspective…

The teacher told us BMW engineers said their Euro a/c systems were ok for the US models. The US import organization said send us those engineers. They put them in a black car in July/August and asked them to drive from Houston to Phoenix... soon an enhanc... 

He got top management to the US, bought them all a large drink at a drive through and after two hours they finally admitted that fitting cars with a cup holder might not be so stupid as they always thought 😂👍🏻