Practically Classics Forum

Well done. There's nothing to beat a fresh test certificate to give you confidence in your work. Good to see you back posting again after that brief haitus, now can we see some piccies of the 164 too please?

Cheers, will do!

congrats on the pass mate

First drive out today, went great, forgot how great she sounds at full chat! The Toyo's make steering heavy at low speeds but serious grip!

Brakes need another bleed as does clutch, and I must have another go at stopping the CSC from banging against the body, but nothing I put on fell off so Im happy.

I restored the alloys over the week in evenings so she is looking mint, will get photos on soon

Well done - great work

Gave her a clean up and went to work..........





No one had an idea what it was at work.

But everyone comment how clean it was and great it sounded.

On the way home a loud graunching noise started on gradual braking from front , I'm guessing will be something to do wit front pads or discs.

My god does she pick up from 50 -70!! Felt like she would pull 3 figures easy! Tons of torque too.

75nut wrote:
On the way home a loud graunching noise started on gradual braking from front , I'm guessing will be something to do wit front pads or discs.

Well, it is an Alfa - there's supposed to be something wrong isn't there?

Looks nice though, it's almost hard to believe it's a 1990ish car - looks as if it could be "factory fresh"! You can now get the benefit of the hard work - enjoy!!

That's just absolutely lovely. Tractorman may have a point about there being an expectation of something going wrong . One of my 75s was actually very reliable once I'd removed all of those decidedly poor ring terminals that grounded various circuits via captive studs attached to the inner wings somewhere behind the headlamps and replaced them with brass ones, soldered in. So that robbed it of the chance to do its previously favoured tricks such as switching itself off randomly, switching its headlamps off in the middle of nowhere on a winter evening and telling me that the fuel tank was empty even though I'd not that long since filled it.

It always amused me that the warning lamp console on the ceiling by the mirror had a lamp on it whose sole function was to tell me that the warning lamp console was faulty. That car was the same shade of red as yours though, and it looked really good from around thirty yards away.
My 75s are numbers 9 and 14 on my list of cars I regret having sold, out of the 107 vehicles I've had registered in my name since 1981.

107? one hundred and seven?? How? and how have you kept count?

Long story and I won't pollute 75 Nut's thread with it but suffice it to say that it's all too easy if you don't keep an eye on how or why your storage space appears to be running low.

In my defence I have owned most of my daily drivers for years at a time, the rest were just things that I saw and decided I wanted, this usually because some green wellie-wearing ponce had pilloried a particular car in the press and what did he know? I'd prove the shandy drinker wrong, right? Er, sometimes I would. Sometimes.