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 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 happened, but above that it came alive !
In all honesty, it looked a lot better than it drove but you probably didn’t want me to tell you that. 😉

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 😊