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THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE ALFA ROMEO OWNERS OF OREGON Volume 51, Issue 5 May 2019 • Four years • 43 issues • 41 pages this issue! Old Spider Tour. G. Kraus photo. In this Issue About the Club The Board of Directors CONTENTS The Small Print 3 The Drivers Seat 4 Alfa in the News 6 Old Spider Tour. G. Kraus photo. Activities Calendar — 2019 11 AROO Members Anniversaries 14 Maserati Tribute Sports Car 17 ADVERTISER INDEX Cup Series Rally 18-19 Petter Giddings Memorial 20-21 Sports Car Market 8 World of Speed 24 Vintage Underground 10 Steve and Tina Davis Tour and BBQ 26 Cindy Banzer PDX Properties 13 Steves Auto Restorations Tour photos 27 Cellutions Vancouver 16 McGirr — Tour Solicitation of Interest 29-31 Lonnie Dicus Windermere Realty Group 22 General Meeting 33 Nasko’s Imports 22 NW Classic 34-35 Hagerty Insurance 28 AROO Summer Tour 36 Arrow Mechanical Company 28 AROO Fall Tour to Condon 36 Columbia Roofing & Sheet Metal 32 Advertising information 38 Cascade Investment Advisors 32 Buy & Sell 39-40 Guy’s Interior 38 The Back Seat 41 PMX Custom Alternators & Starters 38 Click on any advertiser to go directly to their ad. You can also click their ad to go directly to CLICK HERE! their website or contact info if available. To see videos of past AROO track events. !2 The Small Print FROM THE EDITOR Photo Cliff Brunk Bits Editor Position is Open ALFA BITS Greetings, Alfa Bits is the official newsletter of the Alfa which they dominated, winning converts in the This issue marks the 4th year I have been Romeo Owners of Oregon. It is published growing sports car scene. As interest and publishing the Alfa Bits. I took over as editor for about 11 times per year in PDF format and is knowledge of Alfas grew, Alfa fans — known the May/June 2015 issue. That first issue was 18 downloadable from the club’s website, as “Alfisti” — began to gather at Rambo pages and contained only the basics though I www.alfaclub.org. Motors, the new Alfa dealer in Portland, which gave it a new look — since updated with a new trained mechanics and supported a racing team. masthead and other graphics. My commitment We welcome submissions of topical editorial In the early 1960s, Bob Rinde, Rambo’s sales to former President, Roger Dilts was to “put material, and non-commercial buy-sell-trade something out”. I suggested I would commit for manager, joined the national Alfa Romeo about a year. Publishing an on-line newsletter Alfa-related ads are free for members. Contact Owners Club and others followed. By October was totally new to me which only goes to show the editor for details, or better yet, just send 1968 there was enough local interest for Bob anyone can do this job. your ad and we’ll let you know if there’s a McGill to apply to start a chapter, making problem. We also welcome paid advertising. AROO the sixth AROC-US chapter. And with that in mind I am opening up the Contact the Advertising Manager for details. position to any member who would like to take over as the AROO Bits Editor. The position AROO MEMBERSHIP LIST requires about one full+ day a month for the NEWSLETTER SUBMISSIONS Although located in Oregon, AROO welcomes actual publication plus some additional time members from the Pacific Northwest and organizing submitted material as it arrives via I am always looking for content to fill these email. You may be faster than I am, or slower, pages and encourage you to participate by around the world. For the latest information but it is manageable. I will be happy to walk you submitting articles, photos, want-ads and paid check out our website page for events and through the production process and talk with advertising. Your content contributions and published newsletters. The monthly meetings you further. Please contact me at the email paid advertising will greatly improve and are held on the third Wednesday of the month address below or call me at 503.880.7164. I will sustain the club. at 7:30 p.m. at The Old Spaghetti Factory, be out of contact from May 13 through the 25. 0715 SW Bancroft St., Portland, OR, Cheers, 503-222-5375. June, July and August are ABOUT AROO evening tours. Check the newsletter for details. George Kraus In the late 1950s, two Giulietta Spider Veloce's Alfa Bits Editor came to Portland. They were featured on a [email protected] local TV show to promote a sports car race !3 President’s Column May 2019 – Doug Zaitz Market for their sponsorship of this brought to you by Rally Coordinators Yulia wonderful event! Smolyansky and Paul Eklund, our very capable and very accomplished local rallyists! In the Driver’s Seat- The weather was fantastic, with no rain, fog – thank you again for your efforts to make or clouds to be seen – all the way to the coast this series continue this year! – one couldn’t have ordered better weather! I navigated for John Clemson, who drove his Your AROO Board of Directors has shuffled father’s one-owner unrestored 1961 Porsche about several of AROO’s annual events into a coupe – at the back of the pack, of course, but single, hopefully annual event scheduled for in the same spirit of our Giulietta spiders and mid-June – we will be touring from the sprints as an early 1960s contemporary sports Portland area down to Harrisburg (north of car. Eugene) on Saturday, June 22nd, for a BBQ and social party, and with it a shop tour and Our April Dinner Meeting program was swap meet too, at the Steve and Tina Davis presented by member Chris Bright, and was a compound, high above the picturesque slide show and Q&A about his tribute Willamette Valley. There is more on this Maserati 300S being constructed in elsewhere, but suffice it to say that we are Argentina. This car will be an interesting ride looking forward to having an event more once it arrives stateside in a few months. centrally located for our central and southern Chris gave us interesting background on the Oregonian members! business of tribute car manufacturing in Argentina, by some of the luminaries of the Be sure to follow both the AROO website Doug Zaitz photo 1950-60s age of sports car racing. Thank calendar (downloadable as a printable PDF) you, Chris, for your presentation and and the AROC Chapter Events listings on the participation! national AROC-USA website (www.aroc- omorrow’s the day ~ two flight segments usa.org). And if you are traveling outside our and 18 hours later I will be back in Italy I would like to invite all to come to this area, be sure to check the AROC Chapter T month’s Dinner Meeting on May 15th – we Events listings for the area you are visiting. for yet another AROC Goes to Italy tour! So following yesterday’s successful Old Spider will have another guest speaker from our own Tour, I am in full Alfa-mode – ready to return AROO Board of Directors – Alex Carrara! And don’t forget, join us on Wednesday the to the land of our beloved cars. Alex’s presentation will be a slide show and 15th for an evening of friends, food and talk about the 10 year-long building of his beverage, and an interesting program at the I would like to thank Neil d’Autremont and Alfetta sedan track car with V6 engine Old Spaghetti Factory in downtown Portland Keith Martin for coordinating this year’s 41st transplant.! at the south waterfront -- see you there! annual Old Spider Tour. And I would like to thank Sidedraught City and the Sports Car As a reminder, the next (third) rally is on Sunday, May 19th. This year’s series is !4 Open Road Doug Zaitz photo !5 Alfa News Alfa in the News- FCA DESIGN CONTEST THE 2019 DRIVE FOR DESIGN CONTEST The three winners of the contest will be awarded with numerous valuable prizes. They will get behind- SELECTED THREE the-scenes tours at the FCA U.S. Product Design studios, as well as mentoring time with some of FCA's WINNING IDEAS designers. Tony Markovich May 7th 2019 at 2:36PM The three winners of the contest will be FCA named first, second, and third places in awarded with numerous valuable prizes. Each year since 2013, Fiat Chrysler the contest. Maximillian Cooper (lead They will get behind-the-scenes tours at the Automobiles (FCA) hosts a design contest image) from Design and Architecture Senior FCA U.S. Product Design studios, as well as for high school students called Drive for High in Miami won first place. Mason Ross mentoring time with some of FCA's Design intended to educate and encourage (first inline image) from Kennedy Catholic designers. They will also get scholarships to automotive career hopefuls. For 2019, FCA High School in Burien, Wash., took second. attend the Precollege Summer Experience prompted 10th, 11th, and 12th graders to Vincent Piaskowski (Maserati image) from Transportation Design program at the imagine the "ultimate status vehicle." The Ernest W. Seaholm High School in College for Creative Studies. Lastly, they'll top three choices include two Alfa Romeos Birmingham, Mich., placed third. have the honor of serving as junior judges at and a Maserati. the EyesOn Design Car Show. !6 Old Spider Tour 2019 Cliff Brunk photo !7 30th Anniversary SportsKeith Martin’s Car Market™ The Insider’s Guide to Collecting, Investing, Values, and Trends 877.219.2605 Ext.