We were invited to "tour" with the Portland Alfa club. 14 cars made the trip down from Portland to Ashland. We joined up with them the next morning in Ashland for a back road excursion to Grants Pass for lunch at the all new Riverside restaurant.
We made it as far as Talent when our leader's Alfa (a 1959 Giulietta Sprint Coupe) just quit. Out we all climbed to watch the cows in the pasture while drivers gathered to offer suggestions. One old guy seemed to know what to do.
How many old non-Italian men does it take to fix one Italian car? Hummm.
Yes, it's a pretty car! After a new coil wire and a stop at RC for new spark plug wires (you wouldn't want to check those things BEFORE your toured...), they finally caught up with us at Cantrall Buckley Park where we waited around for about 45 minutes.
Moving right along, we traveled on at about 50mph on North Applegate Road until we had to stop for a deer in the road. We were leading the pack in the Miata (luckily for the deer) so we had good brakes and stopped quickly. The driver behind us in an Alfa 1600 Sprint did not...he locked up the brakes, did a right turn spin out into the dirt banking. Luckily he didn't hurt his car and better yet...he didn't hit us. There was much squeeling of brakes from the cars behind us while this went on!
After we got the old car out of the embankment, we continued on into Grants Pass for lunch.
Part of our group at the Riverside.
The famous Caveman bridge
Jack with Alfa drivers. Lars is displaying the drawing that Jack gave them as a thank you for inviting us on the tour. A glass of wine did wonders and we motored back to Medford, leaving the "Alfisti" to their own devices.
How did you get hooked up with this group?
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