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Alfa Romeo 2000 Veloce Spider (1990)
for sale

Price: US $2,850.00

Description:

Does it seem that these days you can no longer get a cool, fun Alfa Romeo spider at an affordable price? Take a look at eBay any day and it certainly can seem like all the Alfas available are either seriously rusted, going to need a total restoration. or they are extremely pricy and on their way to collectors and car show trailers?
As an alternative scenario, here is a cool spider starting at a low price with no reserve. This is a Graduate model, but it has the cool 5 star 14 mag wheels. (I took off the centers for these wheels when I painted them, but unfortunately, I can not presently find them, and they are therefore not guaranteed to be included...).
Indeed here is a chance for someone to get a great deal on a fabled spider that has been driven on scenic evenings and weekends for these past many years and now is ready for a new home. This is not a show car, just a wonderful honest entry level opportunity to get in on some top-down Alfa Romeo driving right now, while the beautiful Autum weather is all around.
This was a Washington DC and Arizona car for most of its life, hence the lack of body rust as shown in the photos. It is a great driver with a positive gestalt in presentation, but clearly not a car to be judged critically close up... The original color black repaint was done perhaps 10 years ago, while a friend/previous owner had the car. There was too much hardner used in the paint, (perhaps also some alcohol was involved here), which resulted in an overall orange peal effect This paint job might still possibly be sanded and buffed to a much better finish, but in the ensuing years, it has just been used by the painter, then another friend, then this seller...
The previous owner/painter also installed new replacement seat covers and a new top. Perhaps my signature contribution since purchasing this car in 2016 from the second friend, who bought it from the mutual (painter) friend, has been to install some old cloudy headlight covers that I painted black... I think it gives a distinctive Lotus like look (...and who can afford to drive an actual old Elan these days? Not me...). Two quick screws removed and you can pop on the chrome headlight trim rings and drive this car during the nights and evenings too!
This car shows very well in the pictures, but there are flaws, including a small area at the top of the convertible rear window has become disconnected from the top. (I felt it was not necessary to worry about it). By the way, these Alfa spider tops flip up and down so well, you will never miss top down driving, even for a few minute-long errand run! Drive a car like this to work and it can transform a normally throw away portion of the day to perhaps the best part! Also, no working radio or AC here, but they have not been missed...
More disclosures: This car is only almost completely rust free... I did find a small bit of classic spare tire well rust-through just beginning when I took the spare out to photograph that area... There may be some other rust as well, but as the photos show, rust is completely missing from the typically ravaged areas of North East Alfas. All the gages work fine except the speedometer and odometer, which are inaccurate to the point of uselessness... The mileage listed on the speedo at 82, 000 is low as the speedo always shows a lower speed thant the car is going. For highway driving, I use the two basic speed/tachometer calculations that 3, 000 RPM in 5th is equal to 66 MPH and 40 MPH occurs at 2300 RPM in 4th...
Hey, if you drive old Alfas like this car, you already know that the second gear down shift can be made effectively with a double clutch even with a worn synchro... Yeah, in this car you need to do that... Also, this car could use new ball joints installed on the right side. The good news is that two new ones are included in the trunk, along with new sway bar drop links. There are also three new ty-rod ends, (...which it may or may not need). I was going to install these parts, but haven't gotten around to it... Oh, there is also a spare used Monza-like rear exhaust sectioning the trunk which I thought would look cool, but I have also not gotten around to installing...
The car is in Westport MA.

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