That's delightfully snide of you, oh Graywolf. And total bullshit.
No such car is listed in the definitive "Alfa Romeo: Tutte Le Vetture Dal 1910" by Luigi Fusi. There were certainly performance variants of the Guilietta Spider ... in 1956/1957 there was the Guilietta Spider Normale, with one carburetor, and Veloce, with dual Weber carburetors. The high-performance Veloce version made 90 hp and had a 5 speed transmission.
Here's ahttp://www.carsfromitaly.com/alfaromeo/index.html referring to these cars.
Luigi Fusi lists all the cars manufactured by Alfa Romeo, he is the definitive source. There were many racing variants, but nothing called a "Guilietta Super Spider". There is no "y" in the Italian alphabet.
I suppose you meant a "balky" gearshift into 2nd gear, not a "bulky" gear. Pardon my mistake, derivative of your inept use of the english language.
Godfrey
On Apr 18, 2005, at 3:38 PM, Graywolf wrote:
You, know what, you are very authoritive about everything. And mostly you do not know what you are talking about. I had made the decision not to reply to any of your posts in the past. I forgot. I will not do so in the future. Kids!
For others who may be interested, the AR Guilietta Super Spyder (or Spider, it means roadster in any case) was the most highly tuned of the roadsters, 1300cc, 135hp, dual webers, ('56/'57 here in the US) basically the racing version. It had a 5 speed german made DB gearbox and every one I ever drove (about 5 of them, none of them new when I drove them) had a bulky shift into second gear, up or down, hence my comment.
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Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:On Apr 17, 2005, at 12:48 PM, Graywolf wrote:Ah '57 Super Spyder one of my dream cars. Was 2nd gear bulky on all of them?Spider ... there is no "y" in Italian. Not sure which Alfa Romeo you are referring to, I've not heard of any of them referred to as the "Super Spider".
The Guilietta and derivative 4-cylinder series Alfas have all had similar gearbox design, and I think even the Alfetta and derivative transaxle cars have a very similar gear cluster. I presume you are referring to the second gear synchro wear problems, derivative from the weight of the gear cluster. I would expect that most take benefit in synchro wear from lightening the gear cluster. I had that done to FrankenSpider's gearbox ... sure makes a difference in shifting speed too.
Godfrey
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