Make: | Alfa Romeo |
Model: | GTV |
SubModel: | Sprint GT |
Type: | 2 Door |
Trim: | GT Race Car |
Year: | 1965 |
Mileage: | NA |
VIN: | AR614704 |
Color: | Blue |
Engine: | 2000 |
Cylinders: | 4 |
Fuel: | Gasoline |
Transmission: | 5 Speed Close Ratio |
Drive type: | Rear |
Vehicle Title: | Clear |
Item location: | Culver City, California, United States |
General
Offered for sale is a 1965 Alfa Romeo Sprint GT that has long since been converted to a full race car. I am selling as is. The body work is not perfect but OK for a race car. Mechanically it is on the button and ready to go. It is fully eligible for vintage racing (VARA, HMSA, etc). I’ve used this car very little in the last few years after going through it numerous times. 2-liter engine was rebuilt in 2014, has only two track events (time trials) on it since. Transmission, brakes, differential, suspension are all either new or in top condition. I’ve been running this car and one before it in Alfa Club events for 20+ years, learned a lot as I went along, and this car reflects all I’ve learned. I was Competition Director of AROSC (Alfa Romeo Owners of Southern California) from 2000 to 2005.
The car is at Omega Motorsports in Culver City, CA. If you want to take a look call Uwe Backer at 310-836-3160 for an appointment.
History
Built as race car at Omega Motorsports in the 1980s.
Was a rent a racer for a time before my ownership. The very last picture shows Nigel Olsen, drummer for Pink Floyd, driving it, sometime around 1995.
I bought it from well-known Alfa collector Dirk Stoehr in 2000.
Raced in VARA, Alfa Club and others. I raced it in the Alfa Club (AROSC) regularly 2000-2015.
My best time at Willow Springs was 1:40.9 with the previous engine, now with 20 more horsepower and a better driver I am confident it could do mid to high 1:30s.
Body and Interior
1965 Alfa Romeo Sprint GT
Gutted and lightened
Body is straight and rust free except for some light damage (shown) at right rear fender--it was repaired but bondo is now cracking. It's a race car not a concours car! If you want to make it look really nice you could have it repainted.
No lights or turn signals except brake lights
Fiberglass hood
Original 52 year old dash (not perfect, has some gashes)
Race seats
5 point harness (driver + passenger)
Welded roll cage
Plastic windows except windshield
Door windows deleted
GTA style outside door handles
Race steering wheel
Fire system
Fuel cell (12 gallons)
Suspension
Heim joints
Panhard rod (Ward & Deane)
Front sway bar mounted at rear of engine
Ward & Deane springs
Konis
Adjustable upper control arms
Set up for neutral handling
Brakes--Stock Alfa, except:
Braided lines
Cross drilled rotors F+R
Racing pads
Tilton pedal assembly
Proportioning valve
Wheels
14x6 Panasports with near-new tires. If interested I have a set of GTA repros I could sell as well.
Engine
2 liter Alfa Nord
Rebuilt in 2014 with fresh pistons, rings, bearings. Only 2 races on engine
Arias pistons, custom 84.5 mm, 10:1 CR (runs on 91 octane)
Hastings rings
All moving components balanced by Engine Machine Service
RML electronic ignition with rev limiter mounted inside car
Head ported by Engine Machine Service
Intake and exhaust valves 1 mm oversize
Saenz rods
12 mm cams
Weber 48 carbs
Filter socks at intake
Block cross drilled for better lube
Crankshaft plugs drilled out and threaded in
Spruell oil control kit
Heavy duty oil pump
Oil impregnated bearings
Remotely mounted oil filter
Oil cooler
Aluminum radiator with overflow tank
Twin electric fans with thermostat
Spruell heavy duty motor mounts
Centerline headers—never a problem with cracking or fitment
Custom full exhaust
Runs on 91 octane
Dyno'd at 164 horsepower at rear wheels, about 190+ at engine
Clutch/Trans
Steel flywheel—stronger than aluminum
Lightweight clutch disk and cover
TZ type close ratio trans with lightened gears: 2.54, 1.70, 1.26, 1.0, 0.86
Trans rebuilt with all new bearings and synchros
Spruell heavy duty donut assembly
Tilton hydraulic clutch
Rear axle:
Stock 4:56 with extra clutch disks for better lockup
Interior/Instruments
Race seats and harness, nearly unused.
Full instrumentation, all rewired: mechanical tachometer, water temp, oil temp, oil pressure, ammeter, gas gauge
External cutoff switch