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Alfa Romeo Spider If the luxury car’s natural photographic home is the boat ramp, then the sports car’s is the golf course. Surely this is the reason why sports car reviews always comment on how many golf bags can be fit in the boot (or trunk, if you prefer). Golf, like a sports car, is gentille. The golfer, like the sports car driver, is always an individual. And in both golf and sports car driving, you can wear gloves if you want to but short shorts are probably frowned upon these days. /via The Blenheim Gang Click for high-res photo

Alfa Romeo Spider

If the luxury car’s natural photographic home is the boat ramp, then the sports car’s is the golf course. Surely this is the reason why sports car reviews always comment on how many golf bags can be fit in the boot (or trunk, if you prefer).

Golf, like a sports car, is gentille. The golfer, like the sports car driver, is always an individual. And in both golf and sports car driving, you can wear gloves if you want to but short shorts are probably frowned upon these days.

/via The Blenheim Gang

1982 Alfa Romeo Alfetta You’d think, having gone to all the trouble of booking a studio and a professional photographer, and having cleaned the Alfetta to within an inch of its life that they could have done something a little more dynamic with the staging. Like taking the camera down below five feet from the floor and turning the front wheels a bit. It’s like an object lesson in how to take a boring picture of a car. /via NetCarShow Click for high-res photo

1982 Alfa Romeo Alfetta

You’d think, having gone to all the trouble of booking a studio and a professional photographer, and having cleaned the Alfetta to within an inch of its life that they could have done something a little more dynamic with the staging. Like taking the camera down below five feet from the floor and turning the front wheels a bit.

It’s like an object lesson in how to take a boring picture of a car.

/via NetCarShow

Alfa Romeo Alfa 6, 1979-1986 Somewhere in Alfa Romeo management in the early 1970s, someone said “Hey, you know that new extended Alfetta we’ll be releasing to market in a few years? I think it’d be a good idea if it had 6 carburettors, one for each cylinder on the 2.5L V6.” And then someone else said, “Yeah, that seems like a good idea. Let’s do that.” And then they only made 12,070 over the seven years of production. Here’s the only one in North America, a 5-cylinder diesel series 2. I saw this one through the Hooniverse’s recent Best of France and Italy car show post. /via wiki Click for high-res photo

Alfa Romeo Alfa 6, 1979-1986

Somewhere in Alfa Romeo management in the early 1970s, someone said “Hey, you know that new extended Alfetta we’ll be releasing to market in a few years? I think it’d be a good idea if it had 6 carburettors, one for each cylinder on the 2.5L V6.” And then someone else said, “Yeah, that seems like a good idea. Let’s do that.”

And then they only made 12,070 over the seven years of production.

Here’s the only one in North America, a 5-cylinder diesel series 2. I saw this one through the Hooniverse’s recent Best of France and Italy car show post.

/via wiki

Alfa Romeo 105-series GTV My internet friend Mark, from the Movement Design Bureau and Akvo, has excellent, nay, infinite taste. How can I say that? He took this photo of an Alfa on the canal in Delft. What more evidence do you need? /via Mark’s Flickr Click for high-res photo

Alfa Romeo 105-series GTV

My internet friend Mark, from the Movement Design Bureau and Akvo, has excellent, nay, infinite taste. How can I say that? He took this photo of an Alfa on the canal in Delft. What more evidence do you need?

/via Mark’s Flickr

1985 Alfa Romeo 33 Q4 “Jenkins! Get in here!” Yes, boss? “What is this, Jenkins?” That’s the hero shot for the new Alfa 33 press kit. “Why is it so… filthy?” It is cool, isn’t it? “No, Jenkins, why is it covered in dirt?” It’s the Q4, sir. It’s got the new 4wd drive-train. So, the boys and I thought we’d show it, you know, 4wd-ing. On dirt. Because that’s what 4wd is for. “Jenkins, you do understand that an Alfa is a performance car? Couldn’t you show it drifting around a dirt bend?” Wouldn’t that involve it going, well, fast? “I can imagine it would involve a modicum of velocity. It would indicate the car is enjoyable to drive.” Enjoying driving hasn’t come through in the focus groups, boss. “Were these focus groups with Alfa Romeo owners?” Some, but mostly with the demographic we’d like to target for the 33. “What is that demo, Jenkins?” Young Urban Professionals who are trading in their first car for their second. “Current Corolla owners, in other words.” Yes. Datsun Sunny was also a popular car. “Really?” It’s a growth market, sir. “Selling Alfas to people who don’t like driving. I have a feeling this is the beginning of the end, Jenkins. The beginning of the end.” (pic via NetCarShow) Click for high-res photo

1985 Alfa Romeo 33 Q4

“Jenkins! Get in here!”
Yes, boss?
“What is this, Jenkins?”
That’s the hero shot for the new Alfa 33 press kit.
“Why is it so… filthy?”
It is cool, isn’t it?
“No, Jenkins, why is it covered in dirt?”
It’s the Q4, sir. It’s got the new 4wd drive-train. So, the boys and I thought we’d show it, you know, 4wd-ing. On dirt. Because that’s what 4wd is for.
“Jenkins, you do understand that an Alfa is a performance car? Couldn’t you show it drifting around a dirt bend?”
Wouldn’t that involve it going, well, fast?
“I can imagine it would involve a modicum of velocity. It would indicate the car is enjoyable to drive.”
Enjoying driving hasn’t come through in the focus groups, boss.
“Were these focus groups with Alfa Romeo owners?”
Some, but mostly with the demographic we’d like to target for the 33.
“What is that demo, Jenkins?”
Young Urban Professionals who are trading in their first car for their second.
“Current Corolla owners, in other words.”
Yes. Datsun Sunny was also a popular car.
“Really?”
It’s a growth market, sir.
“Selling Alfas to people who don’t like driving. I have a feeling this is the beginning of the end, Jenkins. The beginning of the end.”

(pic via NetCarShow)

1972 Alfa Romeo Montreal This is all you need to know about the Montreal: It’s powered by a 2.6L quad-cam fuel-injected dry sump V8 Only 3925 were made It has a great big NACA duct on the bonnet What are you waiting for? (via Fantasy Garage) Click for high-res photo

1972 Alfa Romeo Montreal

This is all you need to know about the Montreal:

  • It’s powered by a 2.6L quad-cam fuel-injected dry sump V8
  • Only 3925 were made
  • It has a great big NACA duct on the bonnet

What are you waiting for?

(via Fantasy Garage)