The Alfa Romeo 'Duetto' Spider is Utterly Seductive 

I`ve always loved Alfa`s and it`s so good to see a youngster like yourself who "Gets it" and truly admires their brilliance, rather than instantly focusing on their main failing, rust...the smile on your face said it all, i envy you getting to drive such an iconic gem of an Alfa Romeo...

Congratulations to a yougster who got the point. In fact all the points. A masterpiece of mechanic and styling Art! Now, almost at sunset, you make me get out and drive /enjoy mine.

Ed, I never leave two comments, but I have say: this was a special video. And a huge portion of that was your delivery. Really enjoy seeing you so alive during your drive. Alfa is certainly a unique experience.

Ive never seen a better looking car. Your history lesson really helps to put into perspective why people rave about Alfa Romeo cars. I loved this video Ed! Great stuff!

As a owner of a 69’ 1300 Gt junior, i have to say that THIS was my favorit episode so far. Bravo! 👏🏻 Mine have a «fast road» 1750 now, and its geared for acceleration. The Nord engine (as it often called), love to rev. Did you notice that the needle on the Jaeger rev-counter is resting on 500 rpm? Thats means that whats under 500 rpm, is not of any interrest. My speedo is resting at 30 km/h too. By your reaction driving it, will say you are now are diagnostic as an alfaholic. Its a lifelong disease, and the only cure to heal the abstinence, is to get one. 🍀 A+ on this one from me.👌🏻

Thank God! As there had been a gap I really did think you had given up and thus with my motorised withdrawal symptom it was like a death in the family. I feared no more superbly researched motors professionally presented and delivered, and no more blissfully enthusiastic driving to inject the sense of fun and real pleasure. But then on my return from church this afternoon, Joy of Joys there was an Ed review. And what a one! Not only all the meticulous research etc but a diving sequence that was so emotionally great you were lost for words for a while! Cushty! It was unbelievably great and I could have wept with joy! I accept that it is not always possible for you to test drive , but wowee when you can it can get stratospheric ! Well done. I have had the your motoring anti-depressant and can hopefully look forward to more of such medicine in the future. Grrrreat! Rob 🙂

A red Alfa convertible. If there is anything better in life than that, I don't know what it would be.

The test drive was a delight to watch. No real need for a commentary - the smile on your face said it all. 😊

Your enthusiasm during the drive really made me smile. There is really something about sound and feel of a vintage motor.

My last comments should have been splattered with 'Lols' to avoid misinterpretation, but as a long-term follower I had got used to my Sunday morning 'fix' of motoring magic, and the absences worried me - the withdrawal symptoms of an addicted petrol head. And as I read the other followers I agree with every word about the Spyder, and being able to test it on top of the deep research made the video one of, if not THE best, you have ever done. Cheers Rob

A cracking take of a cracking car Ed. These things were well ahead of there time when compared to other options but at a price. That DOHC engine with alloy head and block combined with decent suspension for its day in tandem with the cheeky style makes this even better. Oh, and it might be worth mentioning that newer cars arguably be less well suspended due to cost. In the last decade more cars have moved away from multi link rear setups to beam axles as not only are they cheaper to make but to fix as well. Average Joe Soap on a daily commute might not even notice the difference.... until they hit a pot hole on a bend. Well done Ed and thanks for sharing.

This is how every car review should be conducted-by someone who has thoroughly researched the car's history and then conveys the joy of driving it. That's what truly distinguishes Alfa from other cars!

A review almost vulgar and over the top in the sensual language used to describe this car - and yet for this particular car - it makes sense, it can't be described in any other way. Good job!

Young Mr. Westby, you just have exceeded yourself again! What a wonderful little car ❤ Personally, I like the coda Tronca more, bit you really have made a terrific video about this beautiful Alfa Romeo 🇮🇹🍀😍

You're absolutely right, Ed! A seductively beautiful car, and obviously a delight to drive.

I can't wait for you to drive that 928 I saw in the background. My best friend would've loved this glowing Alfa Spider review. Even though his little white Alfa Spider was in the shop as much as not, it stayed his favorite car ever when he moved up to Mercedes. Truly great video!

I Luv it . . . And especially when Twin-Cam can feature a twin cam...

Simplicity is in the details, and beautiful details at that. Glad you got to drive her Edward. The exquisite precision of the gear change, beautifully weighted steering with a creamy smooth action, like churning a teaspoon over a bowl of whipped cream! Then there’s the powerful all round disc brakes. It all blends together as a proper drivers car should . Wonderful .

I own one of these, a 1991 Alfa Romeo Spider 2000 QV Quadrifoglio Verde in silver. They are truly a beautiful little thing ^^💕

A beautiful car and an excellent, informative video. Great work once again.

Fantastic review as always. Well done.

Excellent video on a ICONIC BEAUTY! BRAVO!

I have owned a RHD 1600 for over 20 years and it has done thousands of miles and been utterly reliable. I've taken it around France, London to Aviemore in the depths of winter and commuted from London to Leeds every week in it for nearly a year. It's a very modern car in some respects. Yes, I get the usual comments about rust (I am halfway through a refurb right now) but mechanically, this is a car that can turn the clock twice, when it's contemporaries were well expired at 50,000 miles. That engine is a joy - 109 bhp in 1966 was a hell of an achievement, especially when it is capable of such longevity and so smooth. It was great to see you really got this car and seeing you enjoy it so much, was so refreshing. Great video.

Another, top notch video. I've been an alfa fan ever since owning a basket case 1982 guiletta. In 99. Which had the 2L version of that engine, with a trans axle. It was a joy to drive. It gripped like nothing else. Try and get your hands on one of them for a road test. I'd love to see that. All the best 👍

I see the true precursor of the Miata

I enjoyed this video a lot. You "get" this era of Alfa Romeo so well. I have a 105 saloon in my little Alfa Romeo collection as well as two 116 cars etc. You get a smile on your face from driving them. So do I. An affordable exotic if there is such a thing. Do more young people share your experience I wonder? My two sons in their early 20's don't "get" these cars at all.

What a beautiful car...Thank you for a great presentation with another interesting history of the car...Roger...Pembrokeshire

These certainly are good looking and sounding cars. Love your enthusiasm, Ed - great video!!

There was always something exciting about Alfa-Romeos, thanks for a great video and history lesson! 👍🏻

Another brilliant video Ed! While I'm more partial to the British offerings of the time, these Alfas are truly something special.

all you need in a sports car.

My aunt has a 1300. Amazingly beautiful car.

I think you pretty much covered it there Ed. A truly wonderful little car. We will never see anything like it again, sad to say.

Very much on my car wishlist. I like the early tail, not keen on the later square tail.

Such a gorgeous artwork!

Brilliant video thanks, I’ve had a few cam tails but always lusted over the boat tail.

That was a pleasure to watch.

I have a series 2 spider. Will always have it. Something very special about them. Great to DIY too and very reliable.

The og spider duetto, used in "the graduate" is currently being used in classic car racing in the States. Owned by a young lady who knows the car is one of the two used in the film.

Ed, you can be excused for dropping into voice-over-man mode due to over excitement and the need for a man-sized box of Kleenex in a layby lol. this Alfa is from an era when Italian cars had everything; they should have cleaned up. the equivalent mass market British cars were stone-age in comparison. I was fortunate enough to work on and develop a love for 60s Italian machines in early 80s when albeit most had already disolved.

Brilliant video I myself as a ten year old recall going 'wow' seeing Jaguars E type then like you said with the Alfa Romeo 'damn' with a true ache in my heart tkx cheers

This review makes me want one!

Ed, please don't get mad, the 'Duetto' Spider is rolling art, but I still like the XKE "1967" FHC a bit better. Hope were still friends....... Thanks Ed for helping to keep automotive history alive.

Nice video. I think the best contemporary comparison is to the 1967 Ferrari 330 GTS, another beautiful Pininfarina design.

I bet it was a rather painful moment for you when you had to hand the keys back! It would certainly have been for me also. The Alfa Romeo marque holds a very special place in my heart too, Ed. I had driven cars hard before, thrown a Mk1 Cortina GT around a track in anger even, but nothing compared to taking an Alfasud Sprint Veloce out for a test run and then around that same track only 3 years later. There's a very subtle difference in the way an Alfa drives and only a true petrolhead will feel it enough to make use of it - that feeling of being one with the car, almost discerning which wheel just ran over a small stone or how much width each tyre currently has on the tarmac and the instinctive press on the accelerator to keep them all in balance through a corner at speeds that other vehicles in the class could not easily do. The Alfa Sprint taught me a lot about car feel and the enjoyment of driving. It was like a scalpel compared to a pick-axe with so many other vehicles and even with all the advances in the modern vehicle since - along with their electronic gubbins - nothing compares to it. That little car is one of my absolute favourites, but my fondness for the look drops off when the Series III came out (with the radically changed rubber bumper and rear end look). Still pretty, but not in the same class as her predecessors. I must admit I like the look of the 2007-11 Spider reboot, but have yet to drive one to see how much "Alfa-ness" is still contained. If you can find one - and they allow you to review it - go for it, mate! I'd enjoy hearing your thoughts on it

Then was the golden age of Alfa Romeo. All models achingly gorgeous, technically streets ahead of its competition, and overflowing with glamour hence oh so desirable

It's true, practicality does not preclude beauty. But only the most blinkered Alfa fan would ever describe the boxy 105 Giulia as pretty.

You can really tell you were enjoying yourself. Got to agree with you regarding how pretty the Spider was.

Discs and Coil Springs all around? The Roswell Aliens evidently had the good Sense to make their Return Visit in Italy.

"And here's to you, Missus Robinson..."

6:35 that whale tail sierra ❤ Two beauties in one shot.

I just love the pure clean lines of this early model car, and red is the ideal color for it. By the time it went out of production in the early 1990s it looked very outdated and a bit garish. BTW, is that Sierra RS Cosworth in the background an upcoming subject?

What a beautiful car

You are not wrong in saying this is one of the most beautiful cars ever put on the road. The Lamborghini Miura is another. And you don't need six or seven litres of engine that is great in a straight line, but the car can't corner to save its life. You're almost having a "special moment" driving her. I have to admit I would, too.

Gorgeous thing! Cars may be getting better in every measurable way, but they are getting worse in every immeasurable way. Old cars have a style, a personality if you will, that is unmatched by their modern counterparts.

I prefer the Giulia as I’m a shrinking violet☺️

I love Alfas! The Duetto Spider is one of the best looking cars ever.

Wow

Do you play automation the car company tycoon game?

I own An Alfa Romeo Giulia Spider 1600 duetto exactly like that and I love it, ... in constant search for open roads, sadly today in our area, there is too much traffic and far too many ideologically based, politically induced restrictions to actually enjoy motoring. 1960 to 1975 epoch of freedom at an affordable cost. 1975 to 1990 tech consolidation and massive expansion of private use of motor cars 1990 to 2015 the era of modern, analog ICE youngtimers, high reliability, ease of maintenance 2010 onwards, the future of no future in electronics and EVs, except for small size, light weight, short range city cars on a home charger all due to a gigantic, pseudoscientific error: wrong causation. COtwo is the effect, not the cause, except for organic growth. CO2 is no pollutant, at any level. Proportions matter. True environmentalism is killed by the CO2 adjustment ideology. Nature and life on earth is present due to the life friendly conditions on this planet. The sun, water, water vapour, CO2 and change are vital elements in it. Trust nature.

Jus one Duetto Geev eet to me...

Unfortunately for me, the movie the Graduate kind of ruined the spider for me. I can’t think of them as sporting cars - they’re more like hairdressers cars. The latter generations in the US are quite cheap - $6-12k. Maybe others have my same opinion. I was considering the Fiat 124, Alfa Spider, and MG B/Midget for my first vintage car. I eventually went with a chrome bumper MG Midget mostly bc of parts availability and that I see them racing on the weekends. You never see an Alfa spider or Fiat 124 racing.

Very nice looking car but if talking beautiful Etype beats it Hands down

Peccato che la nostra gloriosa industria automobilistica sia stata svenduta al più egoista e prepotente dei soci, i francesi. Peccato... ma tutto passa a questo mondo.

You can't afford one of your own, but at least you got to drive and spend some time with one. That is far more than most of us ever manage. Not that I'm envious or anything! LOL.

I love this car, but more beautiful than the XKE ? Sorry , not buying that one.

You're absolutely right, Ed! A seductively beautiful car, and obviously a delight to drive.