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Corsa-Spec Alfa Romeo GTA Sparks Its Pilot’s Passion
A bow to this presentation .. in it’s whole absolutely perfect moments start to fin. I reran the section of the car running thru it’s paces,the owner’s firm yet surgeon like gloved hands fitting onto that most beautiful wood wheel like those of a grandfather steering his precious grandchild upon a new bike.. his elegant presentation from his heart,the pace of the narration,fine focused on just right parts for just the right amount of time .. revealing this perfect presentation
Being an Alfetta GT Afficianado I have to live with being overshadowed by the GTV and the Spider (of which I have a 1991). Both are recipients of undying love and devotion while the Alfetta is like the wallflower at the Sadie Hawkins dance. It’s ok though recognition of any Alfa is a good thing.
Just when I thought your films couldn’t get any better for being not only about the cars people love; but a unique life story of the great people who have the passion for them with their wonderful personalities. This one in particular is a joy to watch as it envelopes what it is to love both Italian cars and the uniqueness of the Italian personality which is part of my DNA.
From start to finish and in each detail this is a wonderful story about the good side of life that not many people are able to understand, enjoy or best of all to live.
GTA’s aluminium body panels taught me an interesting thing, that there’s insulating filler (like a chalking, I think) between aluminium skin and steel bone, to protect from corrosion of dissimilar metals contacting each other. I was reading about this in a book when I was 9 or 10, and I was so fascinated by it even though I didn’t understand it at the time. It kind of inspired me, and now I work with metal as a part of my profession.
Are you familiar with “Superleggera” or super-lightweight coach building? Superleggera was a patented method that used hand-formed aluminum panels over a thin, tubular, steel cage, developed in Italy in vicinity of Milan during the mid 1930s. This was an excellent approach to building small volume, very light weight coach work. The potential for galvanic corrosion between the aluminum and the steel was under estimated in the early models. Later examples used an elastomer membrane just as you describe to separate the two metals. Over the years many chassis builders used this approach, but CTS is one of the places it started. Try Wikipedia Corrozzeria Touring Superleggera for more details.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrozzeria_Touring_Superleggera
Che bella machina from when Alfa Romeo’s were Alfa Romeos rather than tarted up FIATs SAABs , KTMs and Dodges masquerading as Alfa Romeos
And ohhh that sound . For anyone still wondering after that ad posing as a video’s Spider exhaust note … THIS .. is what a well tuned hopped up factory or otherwise classic Alfa i4 sounds like . Suffice it to say … it aint music … but it sure is a glorious sound to behold
And to all you hipster wanna be’s out there . The owner here … is the epitome of Italian style .. not that cheaply made over priced dreck in the pretense of style y’alls so attached to
Sigh … but on a slightly negative note … this video sure does make me miss my AutoDelta modified Alfetta GT .. hasta … va bene … sigh 😎
