I`ve owned this car sibce 2012, and have kept in in dry storage since, as the photos show. It was bought as a project, which has been started twice, and stalled twice, and now it has to go due to needing both the space and the money.
I`ll not bore you with the sob stories of how I never wanted to sell this, and I was going to own it for life etc etc, but I`ll give you an outline of what happened.
Bought in 2012 after it had been off the road for a number of years. I set about starting it, and by running a fuel line to a can, it would fire up and die. It was diagnosed with either a faulty fuel pump or MAF sensor.
I then bought a pair of sills from Alfa service in Germany, and booked it into a local Alfa "specialist" in Chesterfield. That was a mistake. I paid they guy over £1000 upfront to fit the sills, and do the rest of the welding, which I`ll get onto soon. What he did was do a half arsed job of fitting the sills, and that`s it. He then disappeared, leaving his business and customers cars behind, including my Alfa. So, feeling aggrieved, I then did some research on internet forums and was recommended a guy in Leicester to do all the welding, get her running and a full paint job. I learned my lesson from last time, so just left him a £250 deposit. 6 months later, not only had he not started it, but it hadn`t moved. To make matters worse, when I went to collect it, without the work being done, the screen had a crack, and wing mirror was broken and the drivers wind deflector smashed! I was not happy!
Since then, it`s been sat at the back of my unit, used to store cardboard boxes on. I`ve stripped all the bodykit off, and this is all inside the car. The interior is also stripped out, but most of it still there apart from the carpets.
This is a project, and certainly won`t be back on the road in a weekend. As it stands now, it would need both front floor pans, both sills finishing off, both rear wheel arches (I have the pattern parts, again from Alfa Service in Germany) and the boot floor welding/fabricating. The scuttle is solid. To make it right, I`d give it a full paint too.
On the plus side, this was once a well loved car, with 15" revolutions, matching Goodyear Eagle F1 tyres and a full Harvey Bailey handling kit. The prices of these are rocketing. so I know the value once done, and it`ll certainly be an investment for someone. Find another.....no, genuinely do. There are 4 left on the road, and 25 known sorned in the UK.
Clearly, it will need to be trailered away. i`ll need notice to get it out of the unit, as it`s well blocked in. I can give quotes for delivery too, with someone I use regularly.
Apologies about the pictures, but you should get the idea. It needs work....lots of work....but is a rare and desirable model so well worth doing.
I`ll not bore you with the sob stories of how I never wanted to sell this, and I was going to own it for life etc etc, but I`ll give you an outline of what happened.
Bought in 2012 after it had been off the road for a number of years. I set about starting it, and by running a fuel line to a can, it would fire up and die. It was diagnosed with either a faulty fuel pump or MAF sensor.
I then bought a pair of sills from Alfa service in Germany, and booked it into a local Alfa "specialist" in Chesterfield. That was a mistake. I paid they guy over £1000 upfront to fit the sills, and do the rest of the welding, which I`ll get onto soon. What he did was do a half arsed job of fitting the sills, and that`s it. He then disappeared, leaving his business and customers cars behind, including my Alfa. So, feeling aggrieved, I then did some research on internet forums and was recommended a guy in Leicester to do all the welding, get her running and a full paint job. I learned my lesson from last time, so just left him a £250 deposit. 6 months later, not only had he not started it, but it hadn`t moved. To make matters worse, when I went to collect it, without the work being done, the screen had a crack, and wing mirror was broken and the drivers wind deflector smashed! I was not happy!
Since then, it`s been sat at the back of my unit, used to store cardboard boxes on. I`ve stripped all the bodykit off, and this is all inside the car. The interior is also stripped out, but most of it still there apart from the carpets.
This is a project, and certainly won`t be back on the road in a weekend. As it stands now, it would need both front floor pans, both sills finishing off, both rear wheel arches (I have the pattern parts, again from Alfa Service in Germany) and the boot floor welding/fabricating. The scuttle is solid. To make it right, I`d give it a full paint too.
On the plus side, this was once a well loved car, with 15" revolutions, matching Goodyear Eagle F1 tyres and a full Harvey Bailey handling kit. The prices of these are rocketing. so I know the value once done, and it`ll certainly be an investment for someone. Find another.....no, genuinely do. There are 4 left on the road, and 25 known sorned in the UK.
Clearly, it will need to be trailered away. i`ll need notice to get it out of the unit, as it`s well blocked in. I can give quotes for delivery too, with someone I use regularly.
Apologies about the pictures, but you should get the idea. It needs work....lots of work....but is a rare and desirable model so well worth doing.
