Duetto; Motivate me

[irsa76]

What was it's original colour?
There's a step nose getting rebuilt on another forum where he had the exact same issue re colour and ended up going a slightly different shade of white to the original colour.

[R'chitect]

Three options for your consideration, I have always been partial to the mustard since aged 9 when I used to walk past a Giulia Super in that colour on the way to school,

So either Mustard w/black interior, or the dark grey / white / with dark red interior...







And something to further inspire you towards completion.....

[craig_m5]

Liam said his mum had a Duetto ?





The Rotisserie commences
Two rings to rule them all..
Just have to figure out (make up) the other bits and get welding

[Lima]

Haha, mum's "Duetto" (I always refer to it as a Spyder) was white. If I stumble across the photo again I'll post it up.

[craig_m5]

The rotisserie commences.

I've decided to use the steering arm and rear trunion pickups, I don’t trust my front cross member (I see cracks). There’s no way I’d hang anything off the bumper mounts. My welding has improved a bit and I have good penetration although I’m still using too much material so have to work out my speeds. I’ve sorted an E2 bottle of BOC Argoshield light which I will try out when I weld the next bits. A dirty great hammer proved it works

ID of the rotisserie is 1800mm, plenty wide for a Duetto at 1600mm (or Coupe/Super?). I’m going to put a segment brace about 450mm up with mounts for the steering are pickups from 720mm. I’ve taken a guess at the centre of gravity/midline being the bottom off the scallop on the door (about the widest point). Hopefully this should be around 900mm or the centre of the ring.

The rings are supposed to be 40x40x3mm RHS galv (although they feel too light). I bought some 38x76 & 40x40 (x1.6)RHS galv for everything else.


(note to self, don't weld on a proplyene table with an oil soaked towel)



Pretty chuffed.. it actually rolls !!

[sweatyworker]

Nice work

When done you can turn those hoops into one of these



Some friends of mine who owned a kart track built a set but I'm pretty sure no one was game to try them

[XXX 1.8T]

very cool.

please do update us with progress, I want to make one next i dick with one of my minis from scratch again at some point down the road.

oh and OT but whatever my contribution to ye olde car tinkerings is I stuck some contact on my front grill to see how i felt about dechroming most of the panelvans bits and pieces and getting my mate to powedercoat them black.. it is nice, i like



opinions welcome, to be quickly dismissed (also yes i know its leaking oil atm lol)

i prefer the chrome but you know me Wes im from ye olde school

[The Pork Hunt]

yeah ordinarily like on an original car i'd agree but this was a bitsa car before i even got it and he tried his arse off to make it look like a 60's morris.. so i have to reverse some of the damage too (ie the cooper S bumper, morris bonnet, clubman handles.. its a mess and im finally getting around to it so might as well do something difffernet and custom rather than continue to be leave it in tryhard spec

[craig_m5]

Ahhhhh... Mr Zagato, we've been expecting you

[irsa76]

Love the seats. What exactly are they out of? For some unknown reason I've started having thoughts of a 124 Spider.

[Mark at farm]

1750 GT seats?
Best 105 choice IMHO.

P.S I may have just bought a 1969 Alfa Giulia saloon with 'some mods'.

[skc]

P.S I may have just bought a 1969 Alfa Giulia saloon with 'some mods'.

Nice!!

Always had a soft spot for Guilia Supers since having a run over Mt Mee in Richard Anderson's London to Sydney car. Fantastic thing!! Actually, have always had a soft spot for almost every period Alpha, especially;

[Mark at farm]

Hopefully Craig won't mind his thread turning into an Alfa circle jerk.

I bought the Giulia (it's actually originally a 1300ti /no super) thinking it would be a great weekend family car. *this may prove to be horribly misguided.
Free road tax, it has a modified 2.0 litre twin spark engine with EFI so gets 40mpg, and has a similar P:W ratio as my old Z and can do 130mph + in relative comfort. Insurance is about 100 pounds a year on a classic policy.
The car has been developed as the personal car of an alfa romeo restoration specialist for the past 10 years and also used to belong to Richard Banks from Alfaholics so it is in great shape and the handling/brakes are suitably uprated and fine tuned.
The best part is it's in a fine shade of hearing aid beige.
Can't wait to pick it up just in time to leave it parked up in the garage over winter.


to keep things on track, the bloke also restored a Duetto once...
http://www.alfaholics.com/2011/11/19...r-1600-duetto/

[craig_m5]

im lovin the joolie.. i want one, one day.

found the final pieces of the puzzle for the front end - yay







bought a NOS reverse lamp too, very shiny

[craig_m5]

Inspired by my headlamp mounts I spent the weekend dissecting the front end...



Trial fitted some parts for sh!ts and giggles, the end of the wings are going to need some serious massaging, at least I can use the parts as templates. Might chop and replace noting the damage to the passenger side.. Rust under the battery has vaporized most of the inner wing, chassis rail, radiator cross member..... *L*







The cross member rust was hidden behind a piece of metal held on with silastic, bite me previous body shop #unt

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