{"id":3278,"date":"2012-04-07T23:55:12","date_gmt":"2012-04-08T06:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/?p=3278"},"modified":"2012-04-08T00:04:28","modified_gmt":"2012-04-08T07:04:28","slug":"1965-alfa-romeo-1600-gta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/2012\/04\/1965-alfa-romeo-1600-gta\/","title":{"rendered":"1965 Alfa Romeo 1600 GTA"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is common nowadays for people to inappropriately associate modifying a car as “building” it. In essence, modifying a car is simply changing parts around with aftermarket doodads and giving it a personal touch. Even a high-school kid with a 20 year old Japanese, 2-door compact can do it. I feel that it is more accurate to define building a car as invasively<\/em> modifying a car with the requirement of hand-craftsmanship and fabrication work. Otherwise, don’t go around self-inflating yourself by specifying how your car was built, not bought (a la this sick<\/strong> sticker<\/a>). You surely didn’t build that stainless steel fart-can or those eBay coilovers, did you? <\/p>\n

Curmugdeonry and ranting aside, one example on how to really build a car is by fully restoring a 1965 Alfa Romeo 1600 GTA to FIA Appendix K standards. This includes aluminum panel work (the roof was straightened and fetted), a seam-welded chassis, and an amazing twin-cam with twin Weber carbs. <\/p>\n

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Recaro SPG > Bride.
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I’ve always admired the classical beauty and glamour of 60’s era cars. An Alfa Romeo built to this caliber is definitely on my dream list. Right along with a Jaguar E-Type (XK-E) coupe and a ’63 split window Stingray. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is common nowadays for people to inappropriately associate modifying a car as “building” it. In essence, modifying a car is simply changing parts around with aftermarket doodads and giving it a personal touch. Even a high-school kid with a 20 year old Japanese, 2-door compact can do it. I feel that it is more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3278"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3278"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3293,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3278\/revisions\/3293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}