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GTV that he owned back in the day. This is a car that I’ve admired all its life, with styling that has aged better than any other 55-year-old I can think of – not something you can say about Alfas that came soon after.
My pal let me behind the wheel for 20 minutes, where happy memories of a lovely mechanical gearchange, an unfettered exhaust rasp near the 5700rpm redline and a hard, progressive brake pedal were rekindled. Many years ago, I drove a GTV up the east coast of Australia . Besides the joy of spending so much time in a great car, I best remember this trip for the take-you-down-a-peg wit of a local bloke who I encountered at my destination city of Cairns, far north Queensland. We were both sitting on a seat looking out to sea – me a proud arrival taking a breath of sea air, him a local resident who probably sat there every day.
“Where’re you from, matey?” he asked, eyeing me and my flashy tourist’s Alfa with mild distaste. “Just driven from Sydney,” said I with what turned out to be an unwise level of city-slicker’s pride. “Sydney, eh?” he said. “Who’s got the pub there now?I’m feeling the frustration of my colleagues who have battled to provide representative pictures of this week’s all-important new-generation
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