£150k Alfa Romeo GTA

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    I’m glad they didn’t just stick a badge on a tweaked version of the Cloverleaf and call it a GTA. This is the working that it deserves.
    However, these will be bought by collectors and stored in climate sealed garages. A shame.
    I think it looks knee tremblingly epic! Utterly bonkers and all the better for it.
     
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    you are right that most wll be pugged away in private collections and seen as an appreciating asset which is a great shame

    l have only ever oven one Alfa and that was a 1/24 scale Tamiya TA02 Alfa Romeo 155 V6 DTM built and painted by me so dont think that really counts as alfa ownership :LOL::LOL:
     
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    Haha. I had a Tamiya Guilia GTa, loved it.
    Also had three real Alfa’s.
     
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    l was a real touring car fanboy and in the 90s spent every other weekend tramping the length and breadth of the country to watch the BTCC and best l managed was 14 out of 16 rounds in one season

    and in 1994 l was sat in the grandstand at thruxton when Alfa Romeo joined the BTCC with Tarquini and Simoni driving the Alfa Romeo 155 Silverstone a car that alfa made 2500 examples of all suppled with an Aero kit in the boot so the rear wing could be raised a number of centimetres and the front splitter could be extended and fixed in place with supplied rivets

    so the 155 Silverstone was a car that changed the super touring rules forever the main one being that you had to make 25000 cars to get homologation rather than just 2500
     
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    Sounded nice. Lucky that the bonnet didn't disappear over the car. :D
     
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    yes that would have made a mess of the front of the car and as the hill is so narrow would have been easy to hit the wall when you have zero visibility
     

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