Hello from Italy
 

Hi everybody,

i'm Riccardo and i write from Venice (Venezia) Italy and i'm very happy to found this nice forum.
I'm currently restoring an 1958 Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider and i'm sure i will get lots of tips and support here!
This Alfa is one of the reason why i was looking for a website like this, but i also like to see how the people are able to create any metal shape, often with just simple hand tools!

Ciao!

Hi and welcome Riccardo!:)

Riccardo, welcome and thanks for the introduction. Glad to see you got registered. Hope you enjoy the site and find it helpful. Thanks for joining us.

Ciao Riccardo e benvenuto al forum, anche io sono da Venezia ma vivo in Australia

HI Riccardo and welcome to the forum I am from Venice as well
Peter

Welcome Riccardo,

I can't wait to see your Giulietta Spider.

Ciao.

Thank you guys!
I'm happy to be aboard.

Ciao Peter ...sometimes i also would like to move from Italy!

I'm going to post pictures of my rusty Giulietta soon!

Hello Riccardo, welcome to the site. For around twenty years on and off I have taught evening class students as a lecturer at college and the thing I have found is that people dont have a workshop full of machines and equipment. It is possible to make almost anything with just a few hand tools and in fact it is best to learn how to make things by hand before getting involved with machines because you can get a feel for how the metal moves.

David

Hi David,

i agree! i saw that in your DVD that i bought about 2 weeks ago!

is not so easy to understand everything because i'm Italian and i don't know all the technical words, so i'm watching it more times, but i believe the most important is to try and retry in order to improve our abilities!

HI Riccardo is the alfa you restoring a Duetto?
Peter

Hi Peter,

no is a 1958 Giulietta spider (short wheel base -1st version)

are you restoring some Alfa?

Ciao

Your English seems perfect to me, you will pick up the technical words here. We Brits use different words to our American friends sometimes just to complicate matters.

David

HI Riccardo I am not restoring one at the moment but I have in the past as they are quite rusty down this neck of the woods
Cheers Peter