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You did not just glue a distributor cap together!!!!

I like that you made the point to stress that Ant and his team had helped when the transmission issue was discovered. Most other people would have dumped on him over it.

I had earlier version a 77. It also had a ruined clutch and huge holes under the windscreen, but what a car .

Happy New Year all! 50:20 that looks like a US 4dr Chevrolet Chevette to me 🙂👍

Sud fan! On the program Ant said it’s not that quick 😂 someone on an Alfa forum summed Alfasuds up perfectly, by saying to a young enquirer, ‘the only thing that would keep up with an Alfasud on a twisty road was an alien space craft’. As a 1.5 that’ll fly 👍

Yeah, the cheap Russian steel thing is a myth. Back in the days, a certain amount of scrap metal ended up in steel production for cars. Italian cars tended to use more scarp metal than usual (not 100% sure why) in its steel for car production, which made the steel inferior in quality against rust. That and they did very little in the way of rust proofing and the drainage systems were badly designed. This occurs in particular in the cars produced in the Alfasud plant near Naples (had 15,000 employees back then). So called ALFA sud, as it was the ALFA plant of the South(= sud) of Italy. ALFA means, ‘Anonima Lombardo Fabrica Automobili’ or roughly translated, ‘Anonymous Lombard (the region in Italy where Milan is the capital) Factory of Autobiles’. Because ALFA Romeo was born and based in Milan and FIAT was based in Turin.

Even thought Ant said he was testing it “on the open road”, like the other 7 cars he ‘restored’ he drove it on the test track at Mira proving ground, I wonder why? The Lotus blew up going down hill and pretty much every car made a loss. Tells a story all of its own I guess.

Guys, please try to keep the camera steady so we can actually see what you are trying to show us !

FFS - Wot are all these tyre kickers standing around with great big mugs of tea like charwomen on a break for ? LOL.

The rust free alfasud isnt as rust free as it was said and looks like someone has done repairs in the past Ant probably didnt want to get involved

Some quality footage that never made it in the videos. Very funny

Ant Anstead “ born mechanic”. . ? Funny that. He’s not even a qualified mechanic. 😮 Ed China.. fully qualified…Elvis…same ….Ant……..errr …ex copper. DIY er…….

I don't know if Matt is the star of the show...or he needs professional help 🤪🤪🤪

Oh l love seeing old 'farts ' hanging around drinking bloody tea , have you guys got nothing better to do It's time to pull your socks up & finish the bloody marina ? Why cos l think I will be dead by the time you all finished it ! Merry Christmas 🎄

I'm way behind on my TH-cams, great video as always lads.

Excellent, I really enjoyed this, have a great Christmas chaps.

I fitted an Accuspark distributor to my "Yorkshiremans Bentley" or MK2 Reliant Robin and it was night and day from points to electronic, the power increase was palpable and the revving range just so swift and sure, I also use Accuspark's triple pronged spark plugs, their high performance HT leads matched with a Lucas Gold performance coil and a NOS completely virgin SU carb the car went from slow poke to quite a scary machine. OK mine thrashes out at 100mphish but it gets there bloody quick and there is a bit of Marina in my 3 pin plug... the gear lever is from a Marina as are the door locks in the interior so if you are in need of interior door stuff Reliant parts will do the job cheaper hehehehehe

The value of the restored car will be less than the cost of the welding wire used to fix it...

Have a good un chaps..

Merry Christmas lads thanks for the great videos. Cheers Russ

Happy Christmas you lot from Tasmania Australia…….which is about as low as you can get……..South I mean……😄

great banter gents, really love the videos - i tried the drinking game, but was p!ssed after 15 minutes

Thank you for the Christmas present brilliant😂

Tea bags 🎅🎄

Happy Christmas chaps and thanks for the content!

Please steer clear of accuspark .very poor quality and troublesome

Onces bought a bright green clover leaf back in the 80s at midland road car auction in Bradford because i loved the rasp sound of engine.my friend popped the hood whilst i was sat admiring the cosy interior he shouted great tyres so i said is that where the spare is and he then said no he could see the front wheels through the inner wings.i was gutted but never bought an alfa ever again. Shame because they got style.performance but may as well been made of paper.❤

Umm AccuSpark!

Bril!. Always a laugh! and always an education for a mechanical 'Noddy' like me!. Nice one!. 🫖☕️

Oi! Tight arse! For the sake of £30 buy a new rocker shaft!

I’m thinking or interested ? What’s the life expectancy of the engine now .? In comparison to synthetic oils and mineral oils ! Unleaded petrol ⛽️ Should be 100 k plus without a spanner on

Ah. Work progressing on the Moritz Margarina Grand Total. Nice. Good luck, thanks for sharing and have all a nice refreshing holiday season !

That wheel tub bracket was a notorious rust trap in the day,always used to check that spot when looking to buy one.

Don't use the accuspark dizzy,they are complete junk,you will definitely have more chance of breaking down with that than the original points and condenser. Parts quality in general is poor nowadays.

Looking at the way the Marina was built, its almost as if it was designed to corrode away, so many rust traps you are doing a grand job, and making me feel guilty at doing nowt to the Morris Oxide !! hopefully after Xmas I can get back on with the old heap have a nice quite Christmas all of you, and take it easy for a few days

Have a good un and keep them coming with this old girl.

That's a cracking job you lads are doing. Glad to see the abused wheel trims came in handy. Is suppose you have to be careful of a RSPCWT inspection 😅 seasons greetings to you all, Russ

surprised you can still get new parts for the car

Nice job chaps & a Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to all at the CCC HQ.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Chaps.

well i get it all the time crap new chinessim junk

Ooh i shall watch this multiple times over Christmas! With a suitable tipple of course!

Thanks for the Christmas present really enjoying it👍👍👍

Great video. Black Alfasud Super 1.5. Great car. The Alfa Romeo experience is simply remarkable. Way way better than entry level BMWs and Mercedes. If only Alfa Romeo can get over the reliability issues, the next 20 years should belong to Alfa Romeo. The Alfa Romeo magic lives on.

I served in the army in Germany for most of the 80s, a fellow soldier sold his 1978 Beetle and bought a brand new 1983 Alfasud Cloverleaf, I had a drive of it, great fun to drive and was very stylish. I don't really know why he sold the Beetle, he didn't push that, the Alfa was a car for fun and he viewed cars as a way to get from A to B with no fun involved. I got posted, went off to the Falklands, came back and in 1986 bumped into him again. We had enough time to share a couple of beers. He told me he had just finished paying for the Cloverleaf, and considered buying it was the worse decision he'd ever made, it had spent 3 winters in Germany, done about 30,000 KMs and it was rusting away. He told me he'd stopped drying the car after cleaning it, because bits of rust caught in the drying cloth. Granted Germany back then salted roads almost daily to keep them clear, but 3 years from pristine bodywork to rustbox!!! What it is they say? A intelligent man learns from his mistakes, a wise man learns from the mistakes of others. I used his experience of Italian cars as a lifelong guide and have never bought any car made in Italy. Rust is never stylish.

That was worth way more than you paid for it. Stop crying. Terrible channel.

If you think it wasn't ants fault then why make the vid in the manner you did

Back when this car was built, CCCP steel was probably the best available. That being said, none was used in the building of these cars.

Put electric power steering & a V8 rover engine in the Marina..