Giulia (Type 105) 1962-1993

My newly acquired Alfa is a Johannesburg car originally, supplied as a knock-down kit in 1968.   It was stored for a long time under cover and was acquired by the person who imported it for me as part of a deceased estate.  

The body is solid, but for some reason the paintwork is atrocious.  Some repairs had been done in South Africa before it was imported, and they were painted with a brush, but the bits that weren't painted are almost acne-ridden.    It is going to be interesting putting the Nitromors onto the paint to see what it's like.   I'm somewhat tempted to drive it as a rat-rod for a while anyway.

This car is an early 'flat dash' car, of which I don't think many appeared in the UK.  At that time we had not joined the common market and import taxes on foreign cars made this model of car almost as expensive as an E-Type.

Initially I preferred the series 2 cars with the binnacles for each big gauge, but the flat dash has really grown on me.  The top pad was probably split by the sun, and has been hastily repaired by someone.  That will need re-doing I think.