Lovely photo sent by reader Michael Duque of his very nice Alfa GTV6 (named “Bella”) parked next to a very early 1965 Alpine A110 (almost looks like an A108 without the signature A110 fog lights). Oh and there’s a Corvette lurking in the background….for atmosphere!
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the Alfa GTV6 belongs to Automobiliac, the E30 325i belongs to Motoring Con Brio, and the TT is mine. We took a nice drive to somewhere random; which culminated in me beating them handily at a friendly bowling match *cough*.
I really dig this article published on Motoring Con Brio about fellow Brooklyn-ite Brad Automobiliac and his Alfa Romeo GTV6.
“I never really loved the car’s looks before, but it has a kind of cool wedge-like hatchback shape that is getting old enough to be reappraised, and they are a pretty rare sight. In fact I had never laid eyes on one in the flesh ‘til I drove the one I was to buy up in Maine, two months later. From the first moment I got into the car, I was hooked.”
read the whole article here:
http://motoringconbrio.com/2010/07/16/guest-contributor-bradley-price-on-his-alfa-romeo-gtv6/
I’ve got this weird desire to own a ‘cheap and older’ european classic car. It is a persistent desire and I constantly find myself perusing the classified ads looking for that perfect cheap-ass eurobox…..something that makes me look like a disgruntled member of the United Nations from the 80s or 90s. Clearly it’s a stupid desire, as i possess MINIMAL mechanical ability to fix these on my own, and them being european; i am virtually guaranteed things going wrong……..but regardless, the desire lives on…and i can’t get rid of it.
my top 5 ‘cheap’ classic cars i want…….WHAT are you guys after? Do you already own a ‘modern’ classic euro car? any stories?
1. Audi 90 (B3): Not sure why i want these so much, but i think it stems from my experiences with one back in the year 2000, when i bought a used 1993 Volvo 850. During my test drives, I had also driven a 1995 Audi 90 quattro….and i LOVED it…it was so much better than the Volvo. But it was also $15k, i bought the Volvo for $9k. I still have an eye out these days…looking for that old woman selling her 90 Quattro. I’m hoping i can find a REALLY clean one for less than $2500…..unmodded, unabused…i think it’s possible. It’d be fun to throw these around in the winter…and to use as a utility car….
2. Audi 4000 Quattro: While looking for Audi 90s, i started seeing these 4000s popping up….for cheap. like $1500 for those weird 80s boxy Audis….with quattro. They’re sort of like buying an Audi quattro coupe….but not really….Either way, they look very german, and i really dig em. Similar to the 90, if i find an old couple selling their unabused 4000 quattro, i’ll be so tempted to buy one.
3. BMW 3-series E30: Yeah it’s all played out now, because every european car enthusiast knows about the $2000 E30 that you can find on craigslist, so now you have thousands of people looking for these E30s….but they really are a cool eurobox to pick up cheap and drive around for kicks; the biggest problem is how many people are looking for em……
4. Alfa Romeo GTV6: Such a cool car, i still remember one of my best friends in 3rd grade used to get dropped off by his mother in one of these….and i loved it then. They look much smaller in real life now than i remember them to be back then…but they make a helluva noise still. It’s tough to find a ‘cheap’ one in good condition, but i think it’s possible. I know Brad from Automobiliac picked his up cheap….and it looks great. An affordable way for an american to get a very cool Alfa Romeo for sure…(look at the one in the picture below; it is the HOTNESS)
5. VW Corrado: Another car i always wanted. Unfortunately all the kiddies into VWs have bought lots of them, abused them, modded them poorly and distastefully, and most of the 2nd hand Corrados i see are quite broken. Even more unfortunately, when i do find ‘clean’ Corrados…i’m pretty sure they WILL break soon after getting it anyways. So it’s a car i look at, but i would NEVER buy unless i become trained as a mechanic, because they are always proned to breaking…..
IEDEI 
