Ferrari Mailing List: Re: what was you most bestest car?

[Jeff Greenfield (alfaguy]

Tony - 

My bad .. I thought that the Alfetta burned the valve on the way back from
CT.

The Giulietta didn't catch fire, something happened to the throttle linkage
and it stuck wide open. We pulled into the fire department parking lot
(don't quite remember where) killed the engine, somehow fixed the throttle
linkage in a fashion that would have made MacGyver proud and went on our
merry way.

Jeff 

-----Original Message-----
From: Colli, Anthony G. [mailto:Anthony.Colli [at] uvm.edu] 
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 10:24 AM
To: Jeff Greenfield
Cc: The FerrariList; Sullivan, Nora
Subject: RE: [Ferrari] what was you most bestest car?

 I burned the valve the day after we put the free flow exhaust on it. I
never adjusted the fuel mixture on the SPICA pump to compensate and it
ran lean at high rpms (which was about the only place I ever drove it).
I burned the valve blasting down the highway going to meet my
girlfriend, now wife. She put up with that car and she even has fond
memories of it. That's gotta tell you something about the car. I still
have the burned valve and we have been happily married for years.

As I recall that Giulietta you had caught fire once, in front of the
fire department even...They looked at us, we looked at them, we put the
fire out with a couple shop towels got the car running and went on our
merry way.

-Tony
Vermont

 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Greenfield [mailto:alfaguy [at] acme-ltd.com] 
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 6:13 PM
To: Colli, Anthony G.; 'Ken Rentiers'
Cc: 'The FerrariList'; Sullivan, Nora
Subject: RE: [Ferrari] what was you most bestest car?

Tony - 

Except for the time that you gave me a ride down to CT to pick up my
brand
new CRX Si, and the alfetta burned a valve (or a hole in a piston, don't
remember which) trying to keep up with me on the way home :-)

I felt the same way about Alfa GTV-6 though. When that car was properly
sorted out, and the driveline was right it was a great car, until a kid
in a
pickup truck rear ended it and it was a total.

You could drive that car at 80+ MPH with the sunroof open and all the
windows down and there was no wind noise at all. The dual A/C when
working
properly would freeze you out of the car on the hottest days too.

I also liked the real ratty Giulietta spider that I owned for a short
while.

Jeff