RE: [alfa] No Alfas on road in US

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"Tim Annett" <Tim@domain.elided> wrote:

>It's because all the Alfa drivers were in their Jeeps....
>
>;)
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-alfa@domain.elided [mailto:owner-alfa@domain.elided] On Behalf Of
>Watry, Andrew (LNG-SFR)
>Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 1:38 PM
>To: 'alfa-digest@domain.elided'
>Subject: [alfa] No Alfas on road in US
>
>I just completed a 3500-mile tour by Jeep Grand Wagoneer through California,
>Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Washington, Montana, and Wyoming, and saw not one Alfa
>the entire way.  At the Bonneville Salt Flats I unfortunately missed Bonnie
>by hours, and did see a tube-frame small-block Chevy car with a modified
>Spider body, but that's not really an Alfa.
>
>Total Italian car count for the entire trip was three Fiat Spiders (one of
>which was on a trailer) at various points and a Ferrari 328GTS in Spokane.
>Admittedly I didn't hit the metropolitan areas, but jeez, I didn't expect to
>see no Alfas at all.  Lots of Jeep Grand Wagoneers, and more big BIG diesel
>pickups than you can shake a stick at.  That seems to be the vehicle of
>choice in the West.
>
>Andrew Watry
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Before and after the convention we put on 2600 miles on our rental Monte Carlo, in Vermont, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachsetts,New Hampshire and Maine.  Except for the convention we saw one Fiat 124 spider and a Zagato 1900 coupe on a flatbed in Boston.  Joe Faherty NWARC

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