Alfa Romeo 2600 1963 Spider carrozzeria Touring

1. The silver-grey colour with Cartier-red interior is the original one, as it was requested from the Alfa Romeo Museum in Arese before the restoration;
2. The soft top was redone like the original, which had a zip fastening on 3 sides of the plastic rear window so that the window could be opened (practically no 2600 Spider has this);
3. The embossed light-blue painted wooden tool box supplied with this Alfa, and which was supplied with this model in the 1960s, is no longer found in any car, not even the 2600 Spider on display at the Alfa Romeo Museum in Arese. As proof, I have a magazine (Ruote Classiche, 2008) containing a photo of the tool box that was supplied with the car;
4. On all restored Alfa 2600 Spiders for sale, the valve cover and the carburettor (Solex) air-intake manifold tube are aluminium-coloured for the valve cover and black for the air-intake manifold tube. Their true original colour is the one on this Alfa, namely embossed green;
5. The Solex carburettor fuel lines should not be black, as they are on most restored Alfa 2600s for sale, but yellow with an external steel spiral covering. This Alfa currently has 3 twin-choke Weber carburettors fitted, with modern-made black hoses, but the original Solex carburettors supplied with this car have yellow hoses with a steel spiral, as the originals did;
6. The document case supplied with the car contains the original Alfa 2600 workshop manual with all the spare parts and their codes, as well as a photo album with all the negatives from the restoration stages, carried out in 2010 and lasting a year and a half;
7. This Alfa 2600 has received the ASI GOLD plaque and, even more prestigious because it is much more selective, the R.I.A.R. GOLD plaque. The Italian Alfa Romeo Register certifies Alfa Romeo vehicles exclusively;
8. It was the subject of a lengthy article (4 pages), with photographs, in the February 2013 issue of Automobilismo D’Epoca, which I can provide;
9. It received an award in 2022 at the event held every year in Rome in spring, called Antiqua (with a plaque that I can show);
10. In spring 2017, at Villa Farnese in Rome, it was used for a photographic book for the Bulgari jewellery house, with Lottie Moss (sister of the famous model Kate Moss) posing as the model.

Modifications made

• The Solex carburettors were replaced with 3 Weber 45 DCOE twin-choke carburettors, with the corresponding aluminium manifold made from a moulded casting, an aluminium plate machined on a lathe to support the carburettors, hoses and various accessories. Cost of the work, carried out about 10 years ago: € 6.500,00;
• Electric power steering with electric adjustment to make the steering heavier or lighter. Cost of the work about 8 years ago: € 4.500,00
• Electronic ignition, with the dynamo replaced by an alternator to supply more current. Cost of the work about 10 years ago: € 2.700,00
• Replacement of the original black Alfa Romeo steering wheel with a Nardi wood and aluminium steering wheel, complete with an aluminium hub. Cost of the work about 11 years ago: € 3.500,00

Total cost of modifications € 17.200,00
The same work would cost much more today.

Original spare parts supplied with the car

• One engine cylinder head;
• One steering box;
• One fuel tank treated with a tank sealant.

Value of the original spare parts supplied € 6.000,00
Total value of modifications and spare parts € 23.200,00

Original parts removed and to be supplied with the car

• 3 Solex carburettors and their yellow fuel lines with a steel spiral
• 1 carburettor air-intake manifold tube and its air filter
• 1 dynamo
• 1 black Alfa Romeo steering wheel

The details listed above, the improvements made and the spare parts supplied mean that no car currently for sale—no car, I emphasise—has the same features.