Tyre Rotation, any point?

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the DS was a 1971 car, I think

DVLA says 1972, but then it also thought it was orange, unless it had a colour change.

My Alfa had a colour change. Obviously green when new... It's really quite odd because when my Grandfather bought the car, he sent me a die cast model of an Alfasud and I painted it purple! Little did I know that 7 years later, I would inherit the car and when I sold it, it would be resprayed the same colour I painted the model!

 

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Cool! Ti, isn't it?

It was indeed! And much better than the lower-spec. ones with the single carb, because the flat 4 engine meant the inlet manifold had to be very long. He would have problems with it icing in winter. A carb on each bank was the answer.

 

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DVLA says 1972, but then it also thought it was orange, unless it had a colour change.
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My Alfa had a colour change. Obviously green when new... It's really quite odd because when my Grandfather bought the car, he sent me a die cast model of an Alfasud and I painted it purple! Little did I know that 7 years later, I would inherit the car and when I sold it, it would be resprayed the same colour I painted the model!

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As far as I know, it was always that maroon colour?

 

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Maybe it changed, like my Alfa, after you sold it?

 

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It was indeed! And much better than the lower-spec. ones with the single carb, because the flat 4 engine meant the inlet manifold had to be very long. He would have problems with it icing in winter. A carb on each bank was the answer.

I remember having a leak in the back box and taking it, funnily enough, to Mangoletsi, (who were just Alfa dealers in 85/ 6) for a new back box. You wouldn't believe how much better it drove with the new one on!

Fast forward to 2023 and (completely coincidentally) that's where we got our new EV from!

 

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Maybe it changed, like my Alfa, after you sold it?

Maybe, I guess, but I'm surprised that reg is even still on DVLA's computer - there wasn't a lot left of the car when I'd finished with it! It certainly got written-off during the time I had it, (not my fault, I hasten to add)! I then got given another one and nicked all the better bits off this one to make the best out of the pair of them!

 

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I remember having a leak in the back box and taking it, funnily enough, to Mangoletsi, (who were just Alfa dealers in 85/ 6) for a new back box. You wouldn't believe how much better it drove with the new one on!

Fast forward to 2023 and (completely coincidentally) that's where we got our new EV from!

This is my 4th 164, but one of the previous ones had a Mangoletsi sticker on it. When TVR were developing the "S" in the late '80s, they wanted to use the Alfa V6 and I think they had some discussion with Mangoletsi on supply of engines, but it wasn't to be, sadly. For what they wanted for just an engine, TVR could buy the Ford V6 - and gearbox, and diff, and brakes, and steering column!

 

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I'm surprised that reg is even still on DVLA's computer

TBF, it isn't, when you look on the "tax check" site.

It only shows up if you look at the "MOT history" site.