(Curbside Classics paid a quick visit to TTAC Command Central in Portland on Saturday, and came away with a few goodies to share from that CC Elysian Fields this week)
With the presumed return of Alfa to our shores, its easy to forget that it seems like just yesterday (to us oldsters) that Alfa was selling its handsome 164 sedan hereabouts until 1995. To the more youthful here, the 164 may have been something you ogled from the back of the family Caravan on the way to grade school. Regardless; it’s a quickly disappearing part of the street-scape, and has some fascinating history behind that tasty exterior. (Read More…)
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Tagged as alfa V6, big alfa, fiat croma, lancia thema, last US alfa romeo, saab 9000, type 4 platform
Tagged as alfa V6, big alfa, fiat croma, lancia thema, last US alfa romeo, saab 9000, type 4 platform
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