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From: jackh@zehntel.UUCP (jack hagerty)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: 1969 Alpha Duetto for sale (two tops)
Message-ID: <1654@zehntel.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1-Nov-84 19:34:35 EST
Article-I.D.: zehntel.1654
Posted: Thu Nov  1 19:34:35 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 6-Nov-84 03:44:42 EST
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Organization: Zehntel Automation Systems Inc, Walnut Creek CA
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A couple of comments on this ad:

> 1969 Alpha Romeo Duetto

I'd be a little leery of a seller who doesn't know how to spell the name of
the car. It's ALFA Romeo, the European spelling. It also used to be an
acronym: Annonima Lombardi Fabbrica Automobili

>                            ... (a real stormer, outperforms all of the
>                                     later models I've driven)

This is true

> Currently fuel injected:(with the 1750 motor, it has the best low end
>                          torque and most pleasing motor sounds)
>           But I'm also including a set of the European Dual Webers
>             jetted for the 1750 motor (I've kept them around because
>             of all the horror stories about Alpha's fuel injection--
>             all unfounded in my experience

You must have heard stories about the Porche or BMW mechanical injection
system. The Alfa SPICA system is modification of a diesel injection system
and is dead reliable. Getting 100,000 trouble free miles is common, it will
usually outlast the engine. I personally have 155,000 on mine and I've
never even had to adjust the idle. It still meets factory specs on emmissions
and mixture. All they ask is that you change the filters on time (6000 mi
gas and 12,000 mi oil).

                                    Jack Hagerty, Zehntel Inc.

                                 [also editor of The Overheard Cams
                                           (not a misprint)
                                  Newsletter of the Alfa Romeo Assn.
                                        of Northern California]