RE: [alfa] Graduate Duetto Race Car

["Jeff Greenfield" <alfaguy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"every Alfa ever built is a race car"

For the benefit of the class and those who have not been around Alfas for as
long as some of us, this quote originally came from Satch Carlson way back
when, when he was writing a weekly column for Autoweek before they canned
him on certain actions of questionable ethics, but that is neither here nor
there and not at all pertinent to this discussion.

For those who care, the original article appears here ...

http://www.acme-ltd.com/Satch/Satch.html

Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-alfa@domain.elided [mailto:owner-alfa@domain.elided] On Behalf Of
Brian Shorey
Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2004 7:25 PM
To: 'alfacybersite'; 'AD'
Subject: RE: [alfa] Graduate Duetto Race Car

Biba,

I've heard the quote many times, "every Alfa ever built is a race car".
Perhaps not true, but I'd say potentially more true for Alfa than for any
other mass producer of vehicles, anywhere.  Maybe Porsche is an exception,
they build a lot of cars..

<snip>
> the mid 60's after two years in marketing at the University
> of Nebraska (yes, they do more than play football) and taking

Well, given that 40 years later, most of us still think all the do is play
football, you really think you could have turned things around for Alfa? ;)

<snip>
> So could I have come up with better marketing plans / visual
> concepts for Alfa Romeo in the 60's? I believe so given at
> least a halfway decent advertising / marketing budget.

Sure, and perhaps those who were in charge also could have come up with
something better, given a halfway decent budget.  Although I must admit, a
lot of what I saw was pretty lame, but I'm guessing that the creators were
given nickels and dimes to work with.

<snip>
> Reply to bs: Didn't say the early British cars were
> state-of-the-art, just they were often more bare boned than
> Alfas and in spite of their having agricultural type engines,
> they often did quite well, especially on difficult Rallies.

Bare bones doesn't define a race car, imo (I'm entitled to mine, as you're
entitled to yours).  By that definition, a Yugo would have qualified as a
thoroughbred race car - I don't think they came any more bare bones than
that, did they?  ;)

<snip>
> You guys are great at intimidation. As you can see, it sure
> causes me to keep my opinions to myself.

Didn't mean to intimidate, my comments were intended as humorous (as is too
much of what I write).  However, post a comment like that to the Porsche
list, or the Healey list, and see what you get for responses!

Peace,

bs
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