Definitely some gen-u-ine 'hot rodder' spirit going into this one, I think.
Part finished, but updated recently: http://www.norfolkstreetcruisers.co.uk/A_Build.htm
Alfa V6 with dummy carbs acting as throttle bodies for an EFI setup.
Alfa transaxel.
I love the aesthetic, and I bet it sounds fantastic 
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I enjoy when people from other countries do something like this. European version of an American tradition.
Might like this car, too. A friend put it together, but it's using carbs instead of the original SPICA for the V8. Sounds really awesome.
http://www.international-auto.com/something-familiar-something-peculiar.cfm
reminds me a little of this unique hotrod.....
The lump above is a Toyota hemi, aka Toyota's "V" engine series.
neat stuff
Love this. The disc brakes on the axles....too cool.
inboard discs are cool.. but a pain to change pads and discs on.. but they do wonders for unsprung weight.. and if your rims are open enough, people wonder where your brakes are
Pads and rotors are easy on those. All you do is unbolt the cv joint, and the rotor is held on by another ring of bolts underneath it. The pads are held in by 2 pins and a spring, you can either do them on the car or unbolt the parking brake cable, hard line and 2 caliper bolts and change them with it off the car.
still harder than outboard discs... and that is without frozen/rusted bolts.
That said.. I would rock inboard in a heartbeat.
I seem to recall a MB race car that used inboard FRONT brakes with half shafts that ran from the hubs to the brakes
alfadriver wrote: Might like this car, too. A friend put it together, but it's using carbs instead of the original SPICA for the V8. Sounds really awesome. http://www.international-auto.com/something-familiar-something-peculiar.cfm
Awesome. Full of small-displacement V8 goodness .
Amazing sound, and nice attention to detail, too.
Back when the 850's got to challenge kind of prices, we debated making a BMW V12 rod. That could have been pretty incredible.
Xceler8x wrote: Love this. The disc brakes on the axles....too cool.
De Dion?
This was in an old issue of Street Rodder (rare to see Alfa content in there!)
Here's their desription:
Jim Stroupe's ride boarders on being a one-man modified as it really isn't designed to fit more than the driver. Stroupe's modified made the cover of STREET RODDER in Oct. 1999, and it features an Alfa DOHC four-banger with a pair of 45 DCOE sidedraft carbs plus Kinmont brakes and vintage Halibrands on each corner.
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