God I love these cars for some reason.
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Bid for the chance to own a 1973 Alfa Romeo GTV 2000 at auction with Bring a Trailer, the home of the best vintage and classic cars online. Lot #43,604.
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I do too.
My biggest regret is not getting one back when they were undervalued and easily obtainable.
Came close on several occasions but never pulled the trigger which turned out to be a sad fate.
One of the most memorable test drives I've ever had was with Paul Spruell's son where I was looking at a '74, such fun and he was egging me on to thrash it harder, was cheap at like $5,700 but had a horrible respray in an ugly color so I passed.
Another shop in town that I always drove by was Auto Delta on Clairmont Rd. --- one day noticed a '67 GTV Jr. for sale there, it was owned by one of the mechanics and talked to me about it but I didn't get to drive it, a beautiful white stepnose example in wonderful condition --- although the asking price was reasonable at $6,500 it was beyond my means at the time.
On a happenstance backroad drive to a relatives house I noticed a derelict '69 1750 GTV sitting at on old closed down gas station that had been converted to a small shop, stopped and talked with the owner and inspected the car, it was a basketcase that would have required reassembly but all the parts were there including those unique one-year-only "flying buttress" seats, it was a bit rusty and had a very sloppy install of GTA flares --- but it could have been mine for $1,500! I'm still kicking myself for not getting it, d'oh!
I went to AROC convention in '95 and as well as looking at all the cars I browsed the marketplace, one guy was a bookseller who had many magazines/books related to Alfa and happened to have a title I could not resist buying:
Alleggerita by Tony Adriaensens which had been released one year prior --- it cost me $100 and the friend that I had brung along thought I was nuts for paying so much for a book! Well, it is a damn glorious book! Much much later noticed that the prices fetched online were quite high so I ended up selling my copy for $650 --- at peak the values were astronomical:
Lot 136 - Alfa Romeo GTA, 'Alleggerita' Book by
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But,
after a deluxe reprint is now available they've settled back down:
Alleggerita, (IN ENGLISCHER SPRACHE), by Adriaensens, Tony (Hrsg.), and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at AbeBooks.com.
www.abebooks.com
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