RE: [alfa] Cross-Country Alfa sightings

["Brian Shorey" <bshorey@xxxxxxxxx>]

> As per Brian Shorey's posts about a dearth of Alfas on long
> trips, I thought I'd post about this past weekend's
> experiences and see if anyone on the list was represented.
> Left for the Berkshires on sat , saw a Fiat Spider (for sale
> by the way) outside of Princeton.... On the way up Rt 22,
> north of New York, (around Pawling maybe), I saw a really
> nice white '70s Spider with two guys in it, and a late
> '50s--early '60s Giulietta. Up in the Stockbridge/Lenox area
> I saw several Spiders ('80s--'90s), a beautiful Balocco, a
> silver Giulietta and 1 164s.... Several Ferraris (it seemed
> as though there was some Ferrari gathering as I passed, again
> on Rt 22) a line of two 308/328s and a GTO, and another
> 328/308 in the Stockbridge area (black with yellow Momo
> wheels). There was also a local BMW gathering of some sort. I
> must've passed a line of 80 BMWs of all vintages as they
> headed north on Rt 7 in the Berkshires. They all had rallaye
> appliques with "Celebrating 75 Years of BMW..." on them. In
> the middle of the pack were 4-5 Z1s in a line. It was the
> first time I ever saw them in the wild, I really like
> them--somewhat Alfa-like. Anyhow, newer and vintage Alfas are
> alive and well in the Northeast. Unfortunately I was driving
> an offering from "The General," so I couldn't offer anything
> in addition to the byways.....

I wasn't there, but I'm guessing they were all heading to/from Lime Rock for
the vintage races.  BMW was celebrating their 75th this weekend, IIRC.

bs
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