Down On The Mile High Street: Alfa Romeo GTV6
You’ll see the occasional Alfa Spider or Milano on the streets of Denver, maybe even a 164, but it’s a special day when a GTV6 appears. This one lives in my neighborhood, just a block or so from the ’52 Kaiser Henry J Corsair daily driver.
The GTV6 was a member of the Alfetta family, but instead of the old familiar Twin Cam engine it had a 2.5 liter V6. Along with the new engine came new, intensely 80s styling. I don’t have the Alfa expertise to ID the year on this car (the GTV6 was sold in the United States from 1981 through 1986), but the lack of a third brake light (probably) means it’s a 1985 or earlier model.
The list price for these cars ranged from about 16 grand to nearly $19,000, or roughly the same price as a BMW E30. Sure, the E30 was more reliable, better built, and more powerful, but who cares?
Murilee Martin is the pen name of Phil Greden, a writer who has lived in Minnesota, California, Georgia and (now) Colorado. He has toiled at copywriting, technical writing, junkmail writing, fiction writing and now automotive writing. He has owned many terrible vehicles and some good ones. He spends a great deal of time in self-service junkyards. These days, he writes for publications including Autoweek, Autoblog, Hagerty, The Truth About Cars and Capital One.
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These things just sound fantastic. I used to run early in the morning on the edge of town, and a guy with a GTV6 used to drive past me almost every morning. He might have had an ANSA exhaust, too. He was clearly enjoying the buzz.
I was too young and poor to be able to buy one of these. I would go to the showroom, drool, stare, sit in it, stare some more, drool some more then go home till the next time. Much later when they were gone I bought a new Milano (75). I drove that Milano for the next 22 years. I love these cars and miss mine; I hope I could get a new Alfa soon, its been too long.