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alfa-romeo

Peter Revson & Alfa Romeo at Daytona 6 hour in 72

July 4, 2009

Sports Car Digest has published a great story by friend of The Garage, Lou Galanos, about Peter Revson at the 1972 Daytona 6 Hour Continental. As always, Lou’s article is accompanied by some incredible photos. Lou describes the changes that were made to the FIA sports car endurance racing in 1972 and follows Revson and [...]

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2009 Greenwich Concours d’Elegance: The Italians

June 16, 2009

The Fourteenth Annual Greenwich Concours d’Elegance was held on June 6-7 at Roger Sherman Baldwin Park in Greenwich, CT. Founders and co-chairs Bruce and Genia Wennerstrom hosted an impressive variety of marques, featuring rare, classic, unusual, exotic, and one-off production and race cars.
It is a pleasure to share this delectable mix of devastating machinery with [...]

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Chrysler Files for Bankruptcy

April 30, 2009

The news today did not come as a total surprise-Chrysler filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy today. While listening to local news reports from various Chrysler dealerships today, the general feeling was relief-not panic, the emotion normally associated with this sort of news. The key here is that Chrysler (and GM, for that matter), were asked [...]

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US May Wait for Alfa Romeo’s Full Return

October 26, 2008

First, let me assure our readers that those of you who ordered Alfa Romeo’s 8C Competizione will get their cars as scheduled. Autoblog broke news via Italiaspeed.com that Fiat is ready to delay bringing more mainstream Alfa Romeo models to our shores in light of a weakening economy. Fiat is facing its own decline in [...]

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Alfa Romeos spotted in The Berkshires

October 22, 2008

I’m on vacation this week, and it’s a tradition for us to head up to the Berkshire Mountains in western Massachusetts for a nice drive, see some good foliage and eat a lot. On our trip up, I always drive by a striking old red brick garage that has Alfa Romeo’s of all vintages and [...]

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For Sale: 1973 Alfa Romeo 2000 Berlina

September 4, 2008

Every now and then, we do a favour and put up a classified ad here in The Garage, but only if the car in question has enough cool factor. Now I’ve never had what most would call a traditional sense of cool when it comes to cars, but this one is just too hip to [...]

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Video: In car at Infineon in Alfa Romeo Trans Am winner

June 8, 2008

If the other videos this morning haven’t woken you up yet, then turn the speakers up really loud and this one is sure to do the trick. Gary Sheehan takes us for a lap of Infineon Raceway in the 1966 Alfa Romeo GTA that Horst Kwech won the 66 Trans Am championship with.

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Alfa Junior Video Goodness

February 3, 2007

I’m often asked why I’m more into old cars than new cars. There are many reasons, but this video pretty much sums it up.
What’s better than one Alfa Junior? Well, 2 of course…
Wait a minute, how about 3 times the twin cam goodness?
Watch the best video of the week after the break. Crank the speakers [...]

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Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione Released to the public

September 11, 2006

I’ve got to admit that most of the modern super lux sports cars of the last few years haven’t turned my crank. I mean they are great to look at and have super performance numbers, but they are usually made of unobtainium. Even worse, here in North America many of us will never see any [...]

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