"Amoore100" (amoore100)
01/27/2016 at 22:41 • Filed to: Generation Gap, Alfa Romeo Spider
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"Amoore100" (amoore100)
01/27/2016 at 22:41 • Filed to: Generation Gap, Alfa Romeo Spider | 3
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Welcome to Generation Gap where we ask you about your favorite generation of a certain multi-generational car nameplate. Then, explain why your choice is right to the rest of us uneducated folks.
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Yesterday I announced the demise of Driveways of America with the final edition of the 18 post long line. !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , we featured the Third Gen Alfa Romeo Spider, inspiring me to use that in our Generation Gap today. The latest Alfa 4C now comes in a roadster variant, but it is a distant relative to this line of small RWD sporsters to which it owes its lineage to. Which is your favorite?
The options:
Series 1 Spider [1966 - 1969]
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Series 2 Spider [1970-1982/83]
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Series 3 Spider [1982/83 - 1989/90]
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Series 4 Spider [1990/91 - 1993]
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XJDano
> Amoore100
01/27/2016 at 22:44 |
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3, because 80's
I have never driven an Alfa, this is based on my tastes for all automotive things mid-late 80's.
aberson Bresident of the FullyAssed Committe
> Amoore100
01/27/2016 at 22:56 |
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This is harder for me then it should be.
Alfalfa
> Amoore100
01/27/2016 at 22:58 |
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Don’t care for the headlight covers on the second gen, or the squatty logo on the third. Fourth is just a little too 90's.
Spridget
> Amoore100
01/27/2016 at 23:08 |
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Series 1. The most elegant and refined design of the four, with the original “boat tail”, no smog controls, and no five mph bumpers.
RallyWrench
> Amoore100
01/27/2016 at 23:12 |
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S1, no contest. Nothing quite like an original duetto. Purity of line and the least weight make it the definition of Alfa spider for me. The cameo in the Graduate helps too.
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Amoore100
> Alfalfa
01/27/2016 at 23:24 |
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They all look a bit bathtub shaped, although I think the big bumpers on the 80's variant actually helps its appearance to seem less awkwardly round, and the rear is pretty in a simplistic way.
stuttgartobsessed
> Amoore100
01/27/2016 at 23:57 |
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I’m all about an early series 2 1750 kam-tail with the euro bumpers. They just look cleaner than the series 1 to me. Plus they're not as expensive ;) I'll have mine with covered headlights, in red, white, or dark green, with a single side mirror.
JDIGGS
> Amoore100
01/28/2016 at 00:41 |
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they are all meh, I actually see younger people liking these alfas. I’m a Giulietta and a Sprint Speciale man myself, but these above are from the when things started to go wrong at Alfa!
cletus44 aka Clayton Seams
> Amoore100
01/28/2016 at 09:22 |
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Here’s Alfa Spider history in a nutshell:
And then it got worse...
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Amoore100
> aberson Bresident of the FullyAssed Committe
01/28/2016 at 22:59 |
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Same, they are all appealing in their own Italian way.
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Amoore100
> Spridget
01/28/2016 at 23:01 |
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Definitely. The first is classic Alfa from behind, while the second could be mistaken or any other 70's British roadster.
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Amoore100
> JDIGGS
01/28/2016 at 23:05 |
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Well they’re not bad in their own right but I do find it annoying that people use them more as status symbols than proper driving cars. The old Alfas definitely carry the old school classic looks but its hard to say how comparable in reliability they are to the newer ones. Likely drive a lot better though.
Sprint Speciale you say?
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Amoore100
> stuttgartobsessed
01/28/2016 at 23:05 |
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Simply gorgeous :)
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stuttgartobsessed
> Amoore100
01/28/2016 at 23:37 |
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YES!