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Car Of The Day: March 27, 2016; Penny '67 Alf Romeo Giulia TI
Topic Started: Mar 27 2016, 12:15 PM (561 Views)
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Hoppy Easter, everyone! Today's car of the day is Penny's 1967 Alfa Romeo Giulia TI.

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The Alfa Romeo Giulia (Type 105) is a sports saloon which was produced by Italian car manufacturer Alfa Romeo from 1962 to 1978. Alfa Romeo was one of the first manufacturers to put a powerful engine in a light-weight car for mainstream production. The Giulia weighed about 1,000 kilograms (2,205 lb). The car was equipped with a light alloy twin overhead camshaft four-cylinder engine, similar to that of the earlier Giulietta models range. Engine capacities offered were 1.3-litre (1,290 cc) or 1.6-litre (1,570 cc). Various configurations of carburetors and tuning produced power outputs from about 80 to about 110 bhp (55 to 75 kW). Almost all Giulias made had a 5-speed manual transmission. Giulias were noted for their lively performance among sedans of that era, especially considering the modest engine size. The popular Super version with the twin carburettor 1.6 litre engine had a top speed of 170 km/h (106 mph). 0 to 100 km/h (62 mph) took about 12 seconds. This performance was better than many sports cars of the late 1960s and early 1970s. When leaving the factory all variations of the Giulia originally fitted either Pirelli Cinturato 165HR14 tyres (CA67) or Pirelli Cinturato 155HR15 tyres (CA67).

The styling was quite straight forward, but with a great amount of detail. The engine bay, cabin and boot were all square shaped. But the grill, the rooflines and details on the bonnet and boot made for an integrated design from bumper to bumper. Thanks to Alfa Romeo using a wind tunnel during its development, the Giulia was very aerodynamic with a drag coefficient of Cd=0.34, which was particularly low for a saloon of the era.

Tipo 105.14 was the first model introduced in 1962. 1,570 cc Alfa Romeo Twin Cam engine with single down-draft carburettor, 92 PS (68 kW; 91 hp) at 6500 rpm. The "TI" nomenclature referred to a class of Italian saloon car racing known as "Turismo Internazionale", and had previously been applied to higher-performance versions of the 1900 and Giulietta saloons in the 1950s. However, for the Giulia saloon, the Ti was at first the only version available, and later, with the introduction of the TI Super and Super, the TI became the base version for the 1,600 cc engine class. Steering column gearchange (the only one in the Giulia range) replaced with floor change for 1964 (Tipo 105.08). Right hand drive available from 1964 with floor change only (Tipo 105.09). Brakes were by drums all around at first. Discs were introduced later, first at the front, and later all around. A brake servo was not fitted at first, but was introduced in later cars. The steering wheel featured the only horn ring ever in the Giulia range. The dashboard with a strip speedo is a notable feature, as is the steering wheel with a horn ring. The Giulia TI was phased out in 1968 and re-introduced as the austerity model 1600 S (see below).


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For more information and pictures of the real car please visit: Alfa Romeo Giulia TI

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I assure everyone that this delightful little model cost me more than a penny. You might even say it cost me a pretty penny. But a pretty Penny is worth a pretty penny, don't you think?

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In case anyone's been wondering why I gave up posting Car Of The Day years ago, I present the above as justification. These pictures don't meet my expectations for quality. It isn't the photographer, it's the DSLR camera I overpaid for. It's a great camera, but it can't do what I specifically bought it to do (which is diecast photos, of course). The main reason I'm not active here as much these days is I just can't share high quality pictures like I used to. The problem with new cameras is their megapixel rating is way too high. The 3" diecast sweet spot is about 3.2 megapixel, as was the 2003 Fuji camera that provided years worth of great pictures here on the Garage. Supposedly a DSLR can be made to do the same thing, but even the camera shop that sold it to me has yet to produce pictures up to my standards for quality. If the experts can't do it, don't expect this technophobe to be able to do it.

Contrast the above with:

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Nice car choice in a pastel color. :)

I'm certainly no expert, but I'll make a suggestion anyway. Go ahead and use a higher MP setting. Take the picture from about 1 1/2 to 2 feet away with macro mode, then crop and shrink the picture to size. Having the camera further away will help with the unintentional tilt-shift where you've got part of the car in focus, but closer and further bits being blurry. Taking a big picture and doing a quality resizing will tighten everything up.

For example, I was probably 6-8 inches from this hood with my little old point and shoot, and it was only able to focus on the front of the hood, the back goes out of focus. The picture was about twice the size originally, but shrinking it made the parts that were in focus nice and sharp.
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:thumbup: I have one of those parked downstairs in my basement. :) Being an "older" collector here I well remember these being sold in stores here in the US. Most of mine came from a department store toy dept. in Spokane, WA and others came from a hobby shop in Pasco, WA. The Penny models of Italian cars were nice additions to a collection of Matchbox, Husky and Budgie models.
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I've got the Ferrari Dino Competizione, and at $15 for a chipper, I too paid a pretty Penny for mine. It's great that your Alfa is minty and even sitll has the box. I have been looking for an affordable police version of this casting since I got the Ferrari.
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You mean like this one, Cody?

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I have been having the same photo issues. I use my phone for all my pictures. My digital camera is 11 years old and never took that great of photos. My old phone (Motorola Moto X) took excellent photos in my opinion with its 5 or something megapixels camera. My new phone (LG G4) with 16 megapixels has been nothing but a struggle to get decent photos from it. Wish I had not sold the Moto X and just kept it around to take diecast photos.
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Such a lovely car! There's a green one I see from time to time here and every time I do I end up down a rabbit hole of used Alfa classified ads and Ebay listings. Maybe one day.
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Such a lovely car! There's a green one I see from time to time here and every time I do I end up down a rabbit hole of used Alfa classified ads and Ebay listings. Maybe one day.
I'd love to see some pics of it - this is a car I've never seen in person (and probably never will).
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I'm sure I've got a picture of it somewhere buried in my photobucket or computer, the trouble is finding it. Come to think of it, it's probably been over a year since I saw it last, but if I see it again I'll take fresh pictures. Here's one in the same shade of green that I saw a little while back at a car show. The one I used to see didn't have a fresh, shiny paint job like this one but looked to be a very well taken care of original paint job with just the right amount of wear, err patina to it.
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Very nice! I would love to go to a local car show and see something like this. Or better yet, a row of cars like this. Sadly, even the Import & Kit Nationals didn't have one of these. :(
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