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EvoMan

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  2. Posted · Edited by EvoMan · Report reply

    If you have 16000 euro's laying around. Here is a huge opportunity for you.

     

    A brand new GTV Cup with the 2.0 TS engine.

     

     

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    Brand new and unregistered. Seems like the bargain of the year. Imagine this...a GTV with

    a new car smell. 

     

    It seems to be sitting around at an Italian car dealer. Why? Let's find out. Who speaks Italian?

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    A friend of mine bought 1 a couple of years ago for 8k. We used it for 6 months then he sold it to a German dealer who sent his wife over with 10k in cash to drive it home. It was a nice car.

    Not cheap to maintain though, your looking at Ferrari prices. The previous owner spent 2k on a speedo sensor, fitted of course !!

     

    2K for a speedo sensor? OMG.

     

    I will pass on a 3200GT

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    ...that looks like a cardboard box with almost equal running costs :)

    Those Maseratis are so bad, that they put the entire Italian car industry to a bad name in the '80s.

     

    I would not invest in a Maserati. We had one at home when I was young. Even then it went wrong all the time, let alone now!

     

    I love the boxy shapes and the interior. The potential things that could go wrong give me shivers. I think Maserati's where put together after drinking a bottle of Limoncello for breakfast. 

     

    Not that a Thema is that much different ;-) I guess it depends on the service history of the car. 

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    I have met this French guy at Spa Italia who has converted a Thema Estate to 8.32. He did not have it with him to Spa, so I visited him later to see the car. It looked like it rolled out of the factory yesterday and converted with a great eye for detail. Total cost? 32K euro's.

     

    I know that in Germany there are some conversions around. Not to long ago one came to NL. Based on a 3.0 V6 LX.

     

    I love the 8.32 but to you have to have very deep pockets. Maintenance and parts are so expensive. If you buy this 8.32 from the UK, you will have to reserve at least 5k for a service and maintenance.

     

    I will buy a new years eve lottery ticket ;-)

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    I found this Lancia Thema 8.32 for sale in the UK. A pretty rare color and combined with a great interior. The mileage, or km's are very low.

     

    9495 GBP makes it about 11.300 in Euro's. Shipping and applying for a Dutch license will make is

    about 12500 all in. 

     

    I have seen these sell for a lot more, I have also seen some very rough ones that really need to be scrapped.

     

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    A Thema 8.32 in my eyes is the most understated saloon even made. I would love to own this, sadly my bank balance thinks otherwise.

     

    My 75 will not be ready in time, it will have sold by then. All I can do till then is dream. And what a wet dream it is.

     

     

     

    Go fetch ;-)

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    I am still trying to get settlement from my insurers. Grrrrr! I want to get started on the Cup. The plan is to take it off the road and replace the flexible brake lines with steel braided hoses, use the 330mm brake calipers and discs from the old car (they had only done about 2-300 miles). Should I get the discs cross drilled?

     I will use the rear dampers and radiator from the GTV as they were all pretty new. 

    Then I have the stainless exhaust system from Alfaholics to fit plus the decat pipe. Now the GTV had a CF2 V6.. the Cup has a CF3 series engine.

    Will the decat pipe from the GTV fit the Cup?  Does anyone know the answer ? I may have to find out the hard way..

     

    I then have the Q2 differential to swap over and the flywheel and clutch to put in ( the clutch in the Cup is past it's best)... I hope that by Spring 2014 that the Cup will be finished and ready to use. 

    There are lots of little details and cosmetics to sort out and I will clean and paint the suspension components as I strip things down.....

    photos will follow as things progress.

    Thanks for your encouragement. 

    And yes, I like the Skoda too ( we have a new Octavia and a New Fabia Monte Carlo should arrive next month) but they are just great transport. An Alfa is so much more than that...

     

    Amazing project. I will subscribe to this topic to keep up to date.

     

    I am not sure if the GTV decat fits the Cup, I am not sure if many people will know this.

     

    Please keep is updated with as many pictures as you can ;-)

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