I like them too, but I dont consider them the same car as a milano. IMO if you want to consider a 2.5 car why not just look for a GTV6?Ī GTV6 usually costs more, more rust problems, and other stuff like the shifter linkage, clutch, etc are a lot more primitive. I don't even consider a 2.5 car in Milano form only GTV6 so I hardly have looked at them. I think you may be right, because I only look at Verdes. They aren't all that much different, but it seems like a lot of people would like every 2.5 parted and scrapped and only the 3.0s to survive. There were a little over 300 3.0s and a little over 3000 2.5s. The 2.5 ones still go for almost nothing. I think part of it is that only the 3.0 ones are expensive, and yeah they have gone up a lot. Were they in the recent fast and the furious movie? It's insane like in the past year they went up by 2000%. I don't see how they can be used for something like chump car or $20xx challenges when every milano I see is like 944S2 prices now. I would own another one if I wouldn't ever need to drive it in the dark or on days when I would care that the heater didn't work, they can be a perfectly fine daily driver if you have another car to use if needed. The only other not so good thing is that you could buy it and do all the maintenance work it needs to make everything perfect, and it wouldn't be worth too much more than you paid for it. The only things you will have to do right away to drive it are the timing belt, water pump and tensioner (or just the tensioner bearing if it still has the original kind), and all the fuel lines.Īs far as bad things, the interior is made out of material that reminds me of Styrofoam plates and potato chips, the headlights are really bad, the heater box is likely full of leaves, and if you try to take it apart to clean it the mount for the heater blower will fall apart (because it is made out of plastic that has the structural integrity of potato chips after 25 years), they have very little ground clearance, and they seem to all leak quite a bit of oil from various places. They drive similar to a miata with more room inside, and sound much better. Very simple and easy to work on, even with the inboard rear brakes. There are actually a lot of suspension upgrades available too, like shocks, spring and torsion bars, swaysbars, brake upgrades, etc. Parts are really easy to find actually, the only important things that I can think of that are NLA are window regulators, clutch throwout bearing, and stuff like the heater blower. If it didn't have rust issues I'd feel a lot more confident in going all in on it. What I really need is to find a cheap, rust free, SAAB c900 turbo, '88 or later, even a rolling shell would be OK. But I do sort of need a fun fairly decent weekend/project car. Tell me everything that I can do with a car is more fun in an Alfa.īut seriously, I need this like I need another hole in my head. Tell me where to find the parts and knowhow to keep it on the road, and even long distance road trip worthy. Or play the devils advocate and convince me that I need a need a nearly vintage pasta burner. Tell me that it will make me want to never want another project car as long as I live. Tell me that GM J bodies are more fun to drive. Tell me that they are soul destroyingly miserable to keep running. (I know there is another Alfa that actually is a SAAB 9000's cousin, but I don't want that). I also dig the look, they look like a SAAB 9000's muscular Italian cousin. I've always loved the sound of alfa V6 engines, I don't know if this is one the spine tinglingly awesome sounding ones or not, but I want to find out. So I spotted this on CL the other day and now I can't get it out of my head!
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