Alfa Romeo Giulietta (78-86) ?

Silvera

Does anybody here recall the Alfa Romeo Giulietta 1978-1986 model ?

I liked the look of this car when it was about in the 80's, mind you there wasn't too many of the around back then !

Haven't seen one for years ?

These pics are of current cars in South Africa - suppose the dry climate there is a big help ?!

mike65

Hmmm proof that not every Alfa was a looker (Bertone?).

Mike.

Alfasudcrazy

I remember them - I liked the styling - but then I like the styling on all Alfa's except the Arna
I loved the stub type bootlid with the little lip at the end. However the original cars look best - before they tacked on all those plastic bits. One of the guys at work had one - it rusted very quickly and possibly was the worst Alfa ever made in quality terms.
I had serious concerns about the demise of the Alfa brand after this car - Alfa at its lowest point I think :rolleyes:

If you like to read up and look at pics of Alfas this link mught be useful

http://dmoz.org/Recreation/Autos/Makes_and_Models/Alfa_Romeo/

Paul (MN)

I had a die-cast model of one of these and loved it! I haven't seen a pic of one of them in years.

mike65

Alfa Arna???????? Was'nt that horror a Datsun Cherry with an Alfa engine? Surely the lowest moment in Alfa history -

Mike.

Dades

Paul (MN) wrote:

I had a die-cast model of one of these and loved it!

Did it rust?

unkel

Remember them well. My uncle had a string of them. Haven't seen one either for about 15 years probably. Disagree with mike65 on the looks. I can see a natural progression from the Giulietta to the 155

The Atheist wrote:

Did it rust?

damn, you beat me to it

alastair

The definitive Irish-Italian chipper owner's car. In red of course.

stratos

Their lowest point ? no I think making front wheel drive sports cars was their lowest point.

Silvera

So, has anybody actually seen a Giulietta in Ireland in recent times ?

hawkmoon269

Saw one in the Jervis centre car park a few months ago, seemed in good nick too.

Silvera

Really ???
Are you sure it wasn't an Alfa 75 or 155 ?

Have a look at the second pic in my original post above - the rear design of the Giulietta is very distinctive.

hawkmoon269

Damn sorry, looking it the pictures it wasn't one of those. I think it was a GTV I saw, you know the coupes from the same period?

Sorry for getting your hopes up there.

Silvera

No worries !

unkel

mike65 wrote:

Surely the lowest moment in Alfa history

The lowest moment is about now

Imagine you desperately want to prostitute yourself to GM for next to nothing and you fail