An Alfa Romeo Affair – Driving the Giulia, 4C, GTA, Montreal, and Giulietta at Willow Springs

A few months ago I would have thought this was so much hyperbole, then I spent a few months with my friend Suban as cancer rapidly took his life.The pain would overwhelm him and he would be consumed with self pity and doubt about the glory of life itself. Then one night while talking about cars he told me about his Alfa Romeo GTV6. It was a transforming moment, as he spent the next 2 hours describing how he found the car, how it looked, smelled, felt and most importantly the glorious sound it made. From then on we would spend some time every night talking about His Alfa. We took many trips along lake Michigan and across the country, I got to know some of his lost lady friends. I learned how he wold save pizza delivery boxes to slide under the car to locate oil leaks, and if you find the right Alfa electrical guy you would not have any problems. You always bought that guy Christmas and birthday presents.
Then I found a audio file of an Alfa V6 being taken through it’s paces on a canyon road. Yeah, glorious is the best adjective too describe the sound they make. When I would leave for the night he would always ask to hear His Alfa one more time.
The memories of that car did what no drug or soothing words could. They helped Suban remember the wonderful life he had lived and opened the door to the possibility that if man could create His beautiful Alfa then what lay ahead of him would be even better.