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Post by Number 63 » Thu Nov 06, 2008 9:06 pm

Been surfing around on the site for a while now and recently got registered and re-joined the club. :wink: I've got a '74 white coupe that I've been sloooooowwwwwly restoring... :oops: (Been off the road in the garage for oh, 20 years.. :oops: :oops: ) It's just that other cars keep taking up my time as I'm now into Alfa's and have 3 of those. :) Anyway, the coupe needs to be sorted as I want to finally finish it and get it back on the road. It was my first car after all. :wink: No bad rot to deal with, just some very badly aligned panels after a reasonably major shunt in the mid 80's....

Some piccys anyway...

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Cheers. :wink:
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Post by JIM73 » Thu Nov 06, 2008 10:29 pm

Nice one mate ! :wink: 8)
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Post by Uncle Frank » Thu Nov 06, 2008 11:39 pm

:? Hi number63...you wouldn`t be Fergus by any chance?, i have an old friend in Ireland who i haven`t seen for a while but did also have a fondness for Alfas!, he too used to be a club member??, anyway great to have you aboard mate, looks like you still have your work cut out :wink: , but stick at it and i`m sure you will get there in the end :) 8)
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Post by Number 63 » Sat Nov 08, 2008 11:54 am

Yes Frank, got it in one.. :wink: :lol:

Still got that 155 you did a wee bit of work on for me a while back. I remember your advice was to sell it but I'm too think for that.. :lol: Took the rear quarter off to properly sort the rot around the filler neck but due to too much time spent flying around the world, not got it finished yet.. :roll: Once I finish that and get it out of the garage, it's on to the Marina.
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Post by JoshWard » Sat Nov 08, 2008 6:18 pm

Nice! What Alfas have you got? Josh (a lover of rustbuckets British and Italian :lol: )
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1936 Ford Model Y- On loan from the CCLP
1971 1.3 DL Coupe (VRU362J)
1971 1.8 SDL Coupe (CAE419J)
1971 1.8 SDL Saloon (JHC999J)
1971 1.3 SDL Coupe (CHY79K)
1971 1.3 SDL Coupe (JGC240K)
1971 1.3 SDL Saloon (OVW292K)
1971 1.8 SDL Coupe (MCU274K)
1980 Ital 1.3 HL (NPB34W)

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Post by Number 63 » Sat Nov 08, 2008 7:23 pm

I have 3 Alfa 155's, all from my love of BTCC racing in the early 90's. Got a 2.0 8V Twin Spark which had a pair of rusty rear quarters and is half way to being sorted. While searching for parts for the TS, I came across a 155 Q4 of which there were only 12 imported into the UK which was a Cat C write-off. So I re-built that and then brought it back home.Wee Vid of that. I had been running an old Rover 414 while I was in Derby and then Madrid but when I moved back to Leicester to work, I sold the racing rover and bought another 155, a V6 this time... :wink: Only 204 of those imported too so fairly rare. :)
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Post by Uncle Frank » Sat Nov 08, 2008 9:03 pm

:D Hi Fergus!, nice to hear from you again mate, hope you are well?, glad to see you still kept the old girl, thought you were sold on the old Alfas` :wink: , good to see you haven`t abandoned the cause!, Marinas are in the blood...once bitten ay! :wink: :lol: , you`d be surprised how many old MMOC members are actually on here now, even old Russell from Sheffield crops up occasionally when he`s got time, not to mention Brian, Graeme, Matt, Mike, Gary, Phil, Andy, Trev, Nick, Jim and loads of others too numerous to mention :) , good to have you back with us.
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Post by Number 63 » Sat Nov 08, 2008 9:34 pm

Yup, good to be back. Actually my brother bought a K-reg 1.3 coupe of the 'bay in 2004 in Bournemouth. I got it transported up to Derby where I was working and got it re-commissioned and MOT'd before driving it back to NI so he re-joined the club and got our old membership number (63). He's still got that too although it needs a bit more work now after laying around for a while... :roll: :lol: So I've been dabbling in Marinas again for a wee bit. :wink: Still got shedloads of spares too.. :D
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Post by JoshWard » Sun Nov 09, 2008 2:32 pm

Number 63 wrote:I have 3 Alfa 155's, all from my love of BTCC racing in the early 90's. Got a 2.0 8V Twin Spark which had a pair of rusty rear quarters and is half way to being sorted. While searching for parts for the TS, I came across a 155 Q4 of which there were only 12 imported into the UK which was a Cat C write-off. So I re-built that and then brought it back home.Wee Vid of that. I had been running an old Rover 414 while I was in Derby and then Madrid but when I moved back to Leicester to work, I sold the racing rover and bought another 155, a V6 this time... :wink: Only 204 of those imported too so fairly rare. :)
Nice! Certainly wouldnt mind a 155 myself 8)
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1936 Ford Model Y- On loan from the CCLP
1971 1.3 DL Coupe (VRU362J)
1971 1.8 SDL Coupe (CAE419J)
1971 1.8 SDL Saloon (JHC999J)
1971 1.3 SDL Coupe (CHY79K)
1971 1.3 SDL Coupe (JGC240K)
1971 1.3 SDL Saloon (OVW292K)
1971 1.8 SDL Coupe (MCU274K)
1980 Ital 1.3 HL (NPB34W)

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