The GTV6 gallery

If you have a photogenic GTV6 (or similar Alfetta) and think it belongs in the Gallery, please contact me.

It might take a few minutes to load all the images on this page - if you are an Alfa fan, I think you will find it worth the wait!

Paul Buckley's GTV6

1986 GTV6 - now sporting the 3.0 liter engine from the red car.

Rims are by Simmons and they are real.modular rims.

Paul's car started life as a 1982 Balocco SE, but has since become a 3 liter GTV6. The motor is from an 1988 Milano verde, and it went in after a mechanical tensioner failure.

The rims are from Alfa Ricambi. They're immitation, modular (15 x 7) wheels - they look pretty cool. The best thing about them is they're plausible for the period, being a fairly simple, mesh design

Giocattolo

This car has been the subject of much debate on the Alfa Digest Mailing List. This is not an Alfetta - but is so exotic and unusual that I though it deserved a spot here.

I don't know too many details - but believe it to be an Alfa Sprint which is modified to have a 400 HP V8 engine mounted behind the front seats (mid engine layout).
These cars were modified in Australia and only a small number were ever made.

This one is offered for sale in Australia at A$69,000!

September 18th, 1997:
Thanks to Jason Dreimanis (georged@merlin.net.au) from Australia for sending me this text cincerning the history and development of the Giocattolo:

"In early '86, Paul Halstead, exoticar entrepeneur elisted designer Barry Lock to work together on the project of converting a regular Alfa Sprint coupe to have the GTV6's 2.5 V6, and driving the rear wheels. By the end of '86 the car was ready to drive. It performed well, with major modifications to almost all the components of the cars structure. The front suspension was mostly Alfa, the disc brakes were replaced with ones from Brembo, the transaxle was ZF and the rear panels were done by Lock, who also reinforced the rest of the chassis.

Trouble eventually occurred when Alfa Romeo were sceptical about continuing supply of the V6 engines, and when the 3.0 Litre V6 was finally imported, it proved too expensive. Then later, Alfa stopped Sprint imports into Australia.
So, it was eventually decided by Halstead and Lock to opt for a motor offered in the General Motors Holden Commodore (an Austalian variant of the Opel Omega). The engine was a 5.0 V8 which had a power output of 220kW and roughly 500Nm of torque. The result was a car which was 1085kg in weight and quicker than a Countach to 100km/h and only slightly slower than a Porsche 911 Turbo over the quarter mile. It had a top speed of 240 km/h.
The handling was said to be superb. Unfortunately it did not sell very well, but at only A$80,000, it was a real bargain. In 1989 the venture died, and only 16 cars were ever built, but during that time, all the cars were produced in V8 spec, including the first original."

Tom Letourneau's GTV-6 Racing Car

Tom's car is ITS car legal for SCCA racing. However Tom does mostly "Hill Climbs." All of the work and preparation is handled by Dennis Black of "The Speed Factory" in Bellingham, MA.

The car has a full Shankle suspension package with externally adjustible Koni racing shocks. The engine is stock. Tom runs the stock mag wheels because they are so much lighter then anything he's found and so is willing to give up the extra 1 inch in wheel width that is allowed. The wheel disks are a customization of Tom's own. He took a set of "GTP" wheel disks as used on Porsche 956/962's. (company in FL makes them) and had adaptors made to mount them on the stock Alfa Mags. They do provide a little extra cooling to the front brakes, obviously with rears being in-board those are for looks!
Auto Power Roll Cage, Halon on-board Fire System.
Car ran twice in the Famous Mt. Washington Hillclimb, came in 2nd in the combined ITS/Showroom stock class for everything under a V-8. Twice set the course class record, in 1994 was way out front (over 30 seconds) at the 6 mile point of the 7.4 mile climb when Tom unfortunately lost it on a sweeping right hander on the dirt part of the climb and put it in a ditch!!!! An article on this particular event appearing theNational Alfa Club Magazine back in late 94.
The car is now offered for sale at $9200. Contact Tom.

Dave Miller's 1984 GTV6

"Scacci" - 1984 Maratona

More details on the "Maratona"

Homer Toussimehr's 1983 GTV6.

Dennis Lou's GTV6

"This is my car. It has 83k miles and is about as stock as you can get. For those of you who know about Alfa Romeo's, it even has the original clutch, head gasket, and 2nd gear synchros. Unfortunately, it also retains the US ride height and ignition timing. Until recently, it also had the original timing belt tensioner, but I replaced it with one specially rebuilt by Sperry Valve Works (guaranteed not to leak!) One of these day's I'll get around to setting it to Euro spec timing and ride height (after I check with the local laws! :-)"

Johan Moberg's GTV6

Johan Moberg of Sweden's beautiful 1980 model Alfetta GTV 2.0 which he has modified for racing.

Mike's GTV6

A picture of my GTV6 - near Anza in Southern California. [Taken before I lowered the front ride height]

Taken outside of Pretoria in South Africa, these cars belong to old friends of mine, Roger Jones, Iain Macleod and Niall Macleod. BTW, the car in the centre will not look familiar to American readers - it is a 1985 Guilietta (never available in the US), a derivative of the Alfetta with a 4 cylinder 2.0 liter engine.

I saw this car when I was looking for a GTV6 last year. It was fully prepared for serious time trials or autocross, yet still (apparently) passed the bi-annual California smog inspection and was street legal. (though I suspect that it probably aroused more than its fair share of interest from the local police ;-)
It is a 1982 Balocco SE.

Great looking Euro spec GTV6 - see this image on Ronald van Gent's web page (see Links section on the main page)