Just bought an Alfa GTV!

[Archangel]

Did a Top Gear - they spent £995 on one. I got mine for £900

Looks great despite 98K's, but, sure to need a new exhaust and rear shocks as they are leaking.

A lot of car for the money though - classic car insurance for only £230 as well as it is a second car.

Will be a welcome change from my Focus at the weekends!

I thought you already had a hairdresser's car? A Eunoch or something?

I hope you are not parking these rusty old motors outside your neighbour's houses, littering the street.

[bobsmithldn]

Did a Top Gear - they spent £995 on one. I got mine for £900

Looks great despite 98K's, but, sure to need a new exhaust and rear shocks as they are leaking.

A lot of car for the money though - classic car insurance for only £230 as well as it is a second car.

Will be a welcome change from my Focus at the weekends!

Wimslow, firstly congrat's ...

I have a 156 with the same 2l engine as yours and I'm driving in the slow lane below the speed limit all the time to try to get the best fuel consumption that I can - result 22mpg!

I bet you will get nowhere near that as - since the Twinspark engine likes to be revved high, I used to rev to the red line 8000rpm - you'll be thrashing it at every opportunity.

Those were the days when I just "went for a drive" ...

Enjoy though!

[bobsmithldn]

Ah, also, the servicing costs are very high.

I bought my 156 in 2000 for £14.5K (was one year old, 36K miles). Now has 60,000m.

I've spent the following:

Year 1 - £1000 (servicing, tyres)
2 - £500 (?)
3 - £600 (broken cambelt)
4 - £500 (48k service, tyres)
5 - £500 (hole in exhaust downpipe)
6 - £500 (?)
7 - £600 (60K mile service, tyres)

It's now worth £2K max.

It also chews through tyres - especially the fronts.

[Churchill]

Ah, also, the servicing costs are very high.

I bought my 156 in 2000 for £14.5K (was one year old, 36K miles). Now has 60,000m.

I've spent the following:

Year 1 - £1000 (servicing, tyres)
2 - £500 (?)
3 - £600 (broken cambelt)
4 - £500 (48k service, tyres)
5 - £500 (hole in exhaust downpipe)
6 - £500 (?)
7 - £600 (60K mile service, tyres)

It's now worth £2K max.

It also chews through tyres - especially the fronts.

Permy alert!

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Rust Bucket and it will leak. Friend of mine just got rid of one fairly local to you. He had nothing but trouble with it.

They are only rusty if they have been badly repaired - assuming this is the 97ish on GTV not the weird but fast hatchback thing from the 70s and 80s.

The ex Mrs PSB had one from new in 2000 for about 4 years. Fine motor - zero probs once we'd tightened up the battery connections (batt is in the boot). No reason why it should leak unless it's the Spyder.

[sasguru]

The only Alfa GTV worth buying is this one:

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/EDITORIA...HAT/33721.html

[BrilloPad]

Permy alert!

[Churchill]

Who's a permy?

[DimPrawn]

For £1500 you could have had this nice little 5.3l V12 coupe

http://search.autotrader.co.uk/es-uk...=&max_mileage=

A gentlemans banger.

looks in good nick too.

[Dearnla]

Surely you're not going to DRIVE it, are you? You'd only want to polish it and sit inside to smell the leather, fnarr, fnarr.