Sud off a cliff

[Evan Bottcher]

This might make some of you cheer?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiH91F0IrGg

[AikenDrum105]

[Garibaldi]

Poor little Sud. How sad. They wouldn't have to remove the wreckage though, it would be rusted away before they got there.

[colcol]

And you wouldn't have to deal with a non operational handbrake.
The most unreliable and important part of a Sud is the handbrake...it is also the hardest thing to work on.
Boy, did Alfa Romeo learn their lesson with that crappy piece of German engineering and replaced it with a good Italian handbrake off a Italian Morris Marina, [Fiat 131], Colin.

[Sheldon McIntosh]

a Italian Morris Marina, [Fiat 131], Colin.

Markku Alen might disagree with your assessment of the 131....

[colcol]

I had a Fiat mate who had one, 1.6 pushrod motor, with single carb and leaf springs, his manual version was no faster than my 1.5 automatic Passat, i know cause back in the 70's we raced each other to and from the pub, back in the olden days when there were no speed camera's.
He admitted that it run out of puff at about 130 klms.
But it had a ripper rear handbrake, when Alfa Romeo were looking at cheapening the Alfasud replacment with the 33, the rear discs had to go, and the 131 brakes had long been for payed for its development and tooling.
In 305,000 klms, i have replaced the shoes on the back twice, the last time because of a leaking wheel cylinder, Colin.