SNO ALFA PHOTOS 5-8

SNO Alfa Romeo Pictures – 5

Posted by Gary on September 26, 2014

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The artist who races, restorations, Alfa postcards,
more race cars and a 145

Anna-Louise Felstead, one of our featured artists, is also a vintage race participant. That’s her on the left. On the right is a self-portrait depicting her and a friend in a rally car they actually raced. The art is © 2009 by Anna-Louise Felstead and used with permission.

: Anna-Louise Felstead puts a Sprint Coupe through its paces, in her first-ever race.

: Not content to create wonderful automotive art, Anna-Louise Felstead goes racing at Monza.

: David French sent a nice shot of his ’68 Duetto Junior. David, who is from Calgary Alberta, Canada, writes that non-originale parts include a modified 2L, Milano brakes, partial roll cage and more. David also has a 1971 GTV that is receiving a GTAm-look body.

: This is Ronan Glon’s 1968 Milano Verde. Ronan lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.

: Here’s a 1966 GTV project that Ronan had delivered to his home. The center grill looks pretty good. That’s a start!

: Jim Neill (aka: Papajam on AlfaBB) holds down a day job, yet still manages to be a go-to guy when someone needs mechanical help or technical expertise for their Alfa. This is Jim’s 1969 Euro spec GT.

: The car on the lift is Jim Neill’s 1971 project car. Below it is a ’68 GT

: Tom Badain’s Alfa 145 is an especially pretty sight to those of us in the U.S. who don’t get to see these cars on our roads. This one lives in the U.K.

: The interior of Tom Badain’s 145.

: Another view of Tom’s 145.

: Oregonian Damian Magista’s Non Originale 1978 “Fetta SS” has a Sperry head, Webers, hot cams, beefier sway bars, and other goodies.

: U.K. resident Steve Goddard’s 1967 GTV is getting a serious restoration. It will have a later 2L TS engine, ATE/Brembo brakes, and more.

: Finland’s Pekka Rossi gave this motor a modified cylinder head, higher compression pistons, new cams, and other mods.

: Here’s Pekka checking out the engine the proper way, with a rousing drive.

: Is this cool or what? Pekka Rossi has a postcard with his Spider on the front and a stamp that has his Spider on it. Who needs Elvis stamps? We want Alfas!

: This is the back side of Pekka’s postcard, showing his Spider stamp. Lick a Spider? That doesn’t sound right.

: Pekka’s 1989 Alfa 75 Turbo looks like new.

: Snow makes a good backdrop for Pekka’s 2005 GT.

: Ed Seymour’s lovely Spider lives in the U.K.

: Ed Seymour also owns this GT Jr. Ed says he took a 30-year Alfa break, but is now making up for lost time.

SNO Alfa Romeo Pictures – 6

Posted by Gary on September 24, 2014

Posted in: SNO ALFA PHOTOS 5-8. Tagged: Alfa Romeo photo galleries, Alfa Romeo Sprint Speciale Restoration, classic alfa romeo photos, classic alfa romeo pictures, Scuderia Non Originale, SNO (Scuderia Non Originale), Who's in SNO. Leave a Comment

More fine Spiders and hard tops
for your viewing pleasure

This 1967 Duetto just looks right, doesn’t it? It belongs to Rod McNae, who lives on the scenic Whidbey Island, Washington. Having enjoyed the island several times in my GTV, I can’t imagine a finer place for top down cruising.

: Rod’s Duetto is an attention getter. I realize some people like seeing skinny little tires on these cars, as were original, but I love how the fatter wheels and tires look on this car.

: Bob Mouck, of Texas, (lokki on AlfaBB) writes that his 1971 Spider was “in pretty sad condition” when he bought it. Only one caliper worked, it had dirty, faded white velour upholstry and green shag carpet. He’s now worked on the entire car and it shows. I like the earlier bumpers and lowered stance of the car, named “Lola.” As Bob notes, “What Lola wants, Lola gets.”

: Alex Jordan, from Berkeley, California owns this 1974 GTV.

: Alex painted his engine compartment black, realizing that in doing so SNO may be the only car club that will now accept him. Don’t worry Alex, you don’t need another car club … unless, of course, you want tours, meetings, newsletters, dues, and all that sort of stuff.

: Bob Hoye’s gorgeous 101 “Spider Abnormale” lives in vancouver, British Columbia.

: Bob’s Spider wears a decal for the Monte Shelton Northwest Classic Rally.

: Bob Hoye’s Spider has a 2L motor with 10.4:1 compression ratio, modified head with 7L cams and DCOE 45 Webers.

: The interior of Bob’s Spider.

: And one last shot of Bob’s Spider.

: Sandor (Alex) Csank’s GTV6, like Alex, has at least two names: Tramontana (North wind in Italian) and Monty (as in “Python” or “full”). I kinda like the flexibility in the name department, as you know if you’ve found me on Facebook.

: Nice juxtaposition of logos, which Sandor says generate a lot of questions.

: Alex Csank’s fine looking Milano is known as “Trogdor.” Note that it sports a SNO sticker for that all important extra kick when being chased by the Originale Police. Trogdor has a Milano Verde 3.0L motor with 164S cams, Euro custom exhaust (no cat), BMW AFM and “all kinds of cool suspension tweaks.”

: The Csank 1982 Spider, known as Desideria.

: Australian Luke Wreyford gives us a look at his very nice 1981 Alfetta.

: Luke Wreyford’s Alfetta has a hopped up 2L with performance cams and a modified cylinder head, larger exhaust system, and more.

: How can anyone look at a Giulietta Spider and not fall in love? This one, belonging to Jon Burningham of California (and those of other SNO members) has me longing for my first Alfa, a 1959 Giulietta Spider.

: Jon writes that his Giulietta Spider has a “warm+ 1750 engine with aluminum flywheel.” The head is by Richard Jemison. Weber DCOE 40’s were tuned by Gordon Raymond to match the head. There’s also an aluminum flywheel.

: The interor of Jon Burningham’s Spider.

: Another view of Jon’s Spider.

: Washington’s Wes Greydanus has a fleet of fine project cars, not to mention a wonderful view of Gig Harbor. He says he cars include: “…two future Vivo Verde Spiders and a running ’66 Dueto formerly owned by Ted Bluechel, then my brother Lee, a saxophonist in a ’70’s rock group that never went bigtime. Now the car is owned by little old me.”

SNO Alfa Romeo Pictures – 7

Posted by Gary on September 23, 2014

Posted in: SNO ALFA PHOTOS 5-8. Tagged: Alfa Romeo photo galleries, Alfa romeo race cars, classic alfa romeo photos, classic alfa romeo pictures, Juan Fangio, Scuderia Non Originale, SNO (Scuderia Non Originale), Who's in SNO. Leave a Comment

From the ridiculous to the sublime …
trust me on this one!

Here’s the ridiculous. (Note the driver’s helmet.) Check out the gallery for the sublime. Photo by Ted Williams. Click here and here for more. (The second link tells the story of “The Speed Demon of the Pampas.”)

: Here’s the entire range: ridiculous to sublime. In the foreground is the LeMons racer of the Ecurie Ecrappe team, taken at the 2008 Concorso Italiano.

: Another view of the Ecurie Ecrappe car, which sports a driver’s seat once used in a race car driven by the real Juan Fangio, not the imposter shown at the top of the page.

: Jay Mackro’s 1966 Sprint GT, media blasted and about ready for paint.

: Jay’s Sprint is shown about to go from shell to rolling sculpture.

: We’re not biased in favor of red GT’s on this site. No siree, not us. But isn’t Jay’s ’66 GT a beauty! This one is painted San Marina Red, an Acura color.

: Jay fabricated a clever luggage shelf for the GT’s back seat, a mod that others are now adapting.

: Under the hood of Jay’s ’66 is a 2L motor that looks as good as the rest of the car. His car has a hydraulic clutch, ATE brakes, “flying buttress” seats, and numerous other mods.

: Ahhh, Giulia! Jay’s Spider looks fine parked alongside southern Californias historic Ortega Highway. Under the hood is also a treat. See the next photo.

: The 1963 Spider of Jay Mackro has bored liners and 1750 pistons, giving it 1650cc; Webers with Weiand air filters (an appropriate speed shop addition for a SoCal hot rod); late model tranny; and more.

: Damon Ladson, from Maryland, sent us this beauty shot of his 1982 Spider.

: Here’s Damon in the Spider, next to his sister-in-law’s VW.

: Glenn Ackermann’s ’86 Graduate is a San Francisco Bay Area car. He says on a good day he can cruise the nearby wine country and pretend he’s in Tuscany or Umbria.

: I expect this will be debated, but Glenn writes about the virtues of California wines: “Actually, the wine is generally better here (than in certain well-known regions of Italy), but that’s a whole ‘nother issue …”

: Ron Taylor, from Australia, shares photos of his cars, including this 1986 Spider, which the factory sent to Australia to be converted to right-hand drive. Ron writes: “All the injection stuff is gone, wiring harness, computers, etc. Interestingly, two things are possible with this change. You can retain the injection head with a small modification, and use a Euro 105 inlet manifold. These are things I was told I couldn’t do. Of course the computer ignition goes too, so I replaced that with a Bosch electronic setup.

: Ron writes that he replaced the original Spider fan with an electric unit mounted behind the radiator. He tried front-mounting the fan and found that it just didn’t provide adequate cooling.

: Hey, why’s that steering wheel on the wrong side? Because Ron Taylor lives in Australia. and that’s how they do it there.

: Ron Taylor’s GTV V-6.

: This is the Spider of Rolf Skala, from Vancouver, British Columbia. When last heard from Rolf was threatening to put a SNO sticker on his single racing scull, which he rows out of Vancouver Rowing Club. We’d like to see that, but no photo has arrived so far. Send me your address, Rolf, I’ll mail a sticker.

: Active Oregon Alfa Clubber, Roger Dilts belongs to this1972 Spider.

: Roger Dilts’ Spider used to belong to Oregon racer Denny Pillar. Not surprising, then, to find that the car has Dellorto 45s, Euro cams, high compression pistons, headers, Rugh springs, Bilstein shocks, Carello light covers, Panasports, and a bright Corvette yellow paint.

: The interior of Roger Dilts’ Spider.

: Roger’s car is a beauty. We had a lot of time to admire it while following closely behind on a couple of Oregon Alfa Club tours.

: The pristine Alfa 75 of the Rev. Graham Middleton, pastoring in Barrie, Ontario, when he sent this photo. It’s definitely the most cool ministerial car I’ve seen in my 60+ years of church involvement. Rev on Rev!

: Robert Landman writes: “I do hate red Alfas.” Because this is SNO, and WE love GTs, we welcome him anyway. Robert has several GT’s, including this 1968 1300 Jr. he bought in Holland.

: Graham Allen, from Christchurch, New Zealand, bought this 1969 GT Jr that looks good in the picture. Check out the next three photos.

: Graham’s car may have looked good in a picture, but it needed a full-on restoration, and that’s what it’s getting.

: Wish I’d had one of these when redoing my GT. This is Graham’s car, on a roll with its restoration.

: The interior of Graham Allen’s GT. We’re still waiting for the after photos.

: The Giulia Spider of Joel Stein, from Florida.

: Joel Stein’s GTC. Mine could have looked like this, except I sold it as a stripped body and a trailer-load of parts. Heavy sigh!

: Is there a better way to end this gallery than with this photo of Joel Stein’s sublime Sprint Speciale? Can’t think of one.

SNO Alfa Romeo Pictures – 8

Posted by Gary on September 22, 2014

Posted in: SNO ALFA PHOTOS 5-8. Tagged: Alfa Romeo photo galleries, Alfa romeo race cars, AUSCA Alfa Spider, classic alfa romeo photos, classic alfa romeo pictures, Scuderia Non Originale, SNO (Scuderia Non Originale), vintage alfas, Who's in SNO. Leave a Comment

An AUSCA Spider and a whole lot more

Gordon Raymond’s 1965 AUSCA Spider goes nose to nose with his Ferrari 275 GTB (See more about the 275 GTB on the Ferrari page).

: Gordon Raymond’s Alfa began life as a 1965 Spider Veloce.

: Gordon bought the car new. He writes: “I set it up when I was at AUSCA with Horst Kwech and Ron Neal, mid and late 1960’s.” Kwech and Neal were known for their racing successes as proprieters of Australian CA racing, or AUSCA, which was located not in Australia, but Illinois.

: This is a real GTA motor. It is complemented by GTA running gear.

: A serious distributor for a serious race GTA motor.

: Gordon says this perfect-looking machine has never been restored, yet it’s not a garage queen. Well done, Gordon!

: The Originale Police will have to be content to find that Gordon’s car has a stock looking interior.

: GTA side exhaust and period wheels lend a nice finishing touch to Gordon’s Spider. If it weren’t for the GTA engine and running gear, and these Mini-Lite wheels, this Spider Veloce would be originale. I don’t care. I want one just like it!

: Lee Hayes, of Brisbane, Australia, races “The Banana” with a stock engine, but is planning a 1L for it. Yep, I thought that was a typo, too.

: Lee Hayes explains that the plan is to replace the Alfa engine with a 3 cyl Suzuki Swift (Geo) engine as a base, that he can turbocharge. He says, “We have a turbo multiplication here of 1.7, so to stay under 2.0 litres in class, I can use a maximum of 1176cc.” Any purists looking in must feel pureed about now.

: Future Alfisti in training; Lee’s kids.

: Brian Shorey sent this photo of the 2009 class-winning Milano LeMons racer with this explanation: “Andy Kress and I, two SNO officers, were looking at the most recent modification of our 24 hours of LeMonds car (suspension actuated pizza box wings) and Andy made the comment that if any car was worthy of SNO status, this is it.” We agree. interesting car and nice win in Connecticut.

: This photo rekindles memories of Alfa projects past. Jim Barrett and friends are rolling a 1957 Sprint project car up his driveway.

: Here Jim Barrett poses in his very fine 1973 Spider, Eddina.

: Cody Jones stands guard in front of his 1982 GTV6. (We only report the news; we don’t make this stuff up.) We’re not sure if Jim Jones gets to drive or is forced to ride shotgun.

: This lovely 1300 Ti belonging to David Mitchell, from Tasmania, Australia, is now powered by a 1600cc engine, but with single Solex carb. Performance mods are on the way.

: Note the high performance SNO sticker on David’s Ti.

: If you see this Carabineri Alfetta in the rear view mirror, it has a V6 so watch out! Thanks to David Mitchell for the photo.

: Another David Mitchell photo.

: Here’s one of several photos sent from Australia by David Mitchell.

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SNO ALFA PHOTOS 5-8

SNO Alfa Romeo Pictures – 5

The artist who races, restorations, Alfa postcards,
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SNO Alfa Romeo Pictures – 6

More fine Spiders and hard tops
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SNO Alfa Romeo Pictures – 7

From the ridiculous to the sublime …
trust me on this one!

SNO Alfa Romeo Pictures – 8

An AUSCA Spider and a whole lot more

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SNO Alfa Romeo Pictures – 5

The artist who races, restorations, Alfa postcards, more race cars and a 145

SNO Alfa Romeo Pictures – 6

More fine Spiders and hard tops for your viewing pleasure

SNO Alfa Romeo Pictures – 7

From the ridiculous to the sublime … trust me on this one!

SNO Alfa Romeo Pictures – 8

An AUSCA Spider and a whole lot more

Categories

Blogging about: SNO, Cars, Family & Jesus

Scuderia Non Originale ™ and Non Originale™ are trademarks of Gary Williams, Washougal, WA, 2004

The artist who races, restorations, Alfa postcards,
more race cars and a 145

More fine Spiders and hard tops
for your viewing pleasure

From the ridiculous to the sublime …
trust me on this one!