1968 Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale
- Thread starter mongooz
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sunvalleylaw
Yep.
Very cool car!
Knox in Box
Rustbelt refugee.
Wow. Stunning
Flatspotter
What?
That car is so far beyond sexy it's not even funny.
Guitar Heel
Demented Trick
holy shitballs.
DinoMikeSr
I have the box
Cool. Love the sound.
Flatspotter
What?
Dude, that's a video game. Probably Assetto Corsa.
mongooz
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Flatspotter
What?
It fooled me at first too, but I thought the tire smoke looked a little weird.wow, had me fooled.
of course i had about 10 beers in me when i posted it
mongooz
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i should have realized that if you pop the clutch that hard, that many times in a row in those type of cars, you'd burn it out.
they aren't built for that shit.
VoidTerraFirma
Live to wine
Totally bitchin’.
sunvalleylaw
Yep.
I have seen a couple of those in person, back in the day at PNWARC track events. Pretty cars!
sunvalleylaw
Yep.
Seeing this thread pop up in my watched threads brings my car, which I sold just about a year ago now, to mind. The angular Bertone designed sedan is quite different from the stradale, though they are from the same era. And it has merely the traditional Alfa DOHC 4. But it was a fun little car. Long may you run, Rainbow Bullet! (That is what the kids called it).
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dmn23
Duller than cardboard
sunvalleylaw
Yep.
I used to see a couple of those, one Alfa red, and one orange, as I recall, at track days and time trial days way back in the late 80’s and early 90’s at what was then SIR, now Pacific Raceways.
Speaking of SIR, this top pic, and the next one, is me, age 20 something, in my car at the time, a 1976 Alfetta GT, more neutral handling than the earlier GT’s that had more Alfa oversteer. Not considered as desirable, but I loved that car. My girlfriend up in the stands took those photos as I was pulling into the pits. The instrument cluster on that car had the tach only, right in front of the wheel, and the speedo was off toward the center, angled toward the driver, with other “secondary gauges” such as fuel level, oil pressure, etc. The second pics were from my position while I took a turn being a track watcher for emergency purposes. I think this was a track practice day and not a time trial, but not sure. It might have been time trial as I had a number on my car. In any case, no door to door racing at these events, and passing only on the front straight (the drag strip, otherwise) and the back “straight” you see in the pics with the red Alfetta/GTV’s. That was my favorite portion of the track with its winding curves you accessed descending off two tight turns (where that Porsche was too hot and went pipes backward into the dirt on turn 3A. HaHaHaHa!) then hit the gas and built speed within those sweepers, then up a hill to make a big round banked 180, with a weird flat lane outside and a crown you had to hit just right down to the banked portion, back to the drag strip. A Fiat did that poorly just in front of me one time and got its rear suspension loose, and slid down to the edge of the track and tripped into the infield throwing rocks and dirt everywhere. That was hairy. Everyone was ok.
Sorry, just Alfa reminiscing.