The cars I recall most fondly were neither the prettiest nor the quickest. Certainly not the most expensive. They were machines that emerged willfully peculiar and intractably idiosyncratic.
From the May/June issue of Car and Driver.Alfaholism first afflicted me in 1976. The infecting vector was an Alfetta GT, whose road test became the first cover story I'd ever write. Near London, Ontario, the Alfetta's heater core peed a pink pint of lukewarm coolant on my girlfriend's sneakers. I was less committed to her than to the Alfa. The point being, a pattern was set. Flash-forward 12 years, and I'm standing in David E. Davis Jr.
The front seats squeezed your thighs until sweat fused them. The shifter impinged upon the radio, meaning you could tune it only while in second or fourth gears. A monster U-shaped hand brake overwhelmed the center console. The trunk could be opened only from inside the car. The steering wheel was a few degrees catawampus, angling your shoulders at unequal distances from the dash. The cockpit smelled like a Connolly tannery inside an ozone-filled blimp.
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