Zathras > wrote:

> On Wed, 10 May 2006 20:41:04 GMT, Halmyre > wrote:
>
> > It's actually a bit of a bugger to work out who gets what...
>
> No..it's worse than that. Around that time my local garage had about
> 20 156s which were a company order. Every colour and type possible.
> The odd thing was that they were all (quote) "mis-builds". Every one
> had something weird in the spec. From simple things like wrong spec
> radios to really weird things like Lussos with Veloce black dials,
> Veloce lowered suspension but lusso wheels and no side skirts.
>
> The other thing that made specs a random thing was the torrent of
> imports that were mixes of Euro and GB spec.
>
> I'm reminded of a time many years ago when all "L" spec Cavaliers
> magically became "GL" spec when appearing on the secondhand market.
> I'd treat old 156 descriptions with similar disbelief (mostly for the
> reasons outlined previously).

A friend in the trade (he no longer works for an Alfa dealer) says that
you could effectively have anything you wanted when ordering a 156 -
they were built to order with the trim / spec combinations of the
customer's choice.
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