Type R Club of America

Stumbled across this. Sw2 and Mr. sterling silver supplied the the car for the article apparently. I am guessing the recent one on bat maybe. Auto correct. Romeo
https://www.hagerty.com/articles-videos ... a-romeo-4c

Interesting read. I’ll keep my R. Been down the Alfa road before....

Error in the article.

"The first batch of 500 didn’t even have air conditioning or a radio, although subsequent limited runs in 1999, 2000, and 2001 had those refinements."

We got 99's in Canada

The best year...98's were omitted

hungsteR wrote: ↑Fri Jul 20, 2018 10:03 am The best year...98's were omitted

Which was our ‘98,’99 and ‘00 in Canada. Best year was 97 followed by ‘01 cdm. Everybody knows that.

Curious where the info that ITRs were seam welded comes from? Is that specific to a year or non-US region?

I’ve stripped most of the undercarriage, interior, and gutted the engine bay on my 01 shell. Nothing I’ve seen was seam welded and there isn’t much of the body I can’t see at this point.

I agree. It's my humble that the seam welding claim is more to do with either an internet belief that caught on or some journalist reckoned it was and it's been repeated ever since. Like aklackner I've had my JDM R near down to the bare bones and didn't see any evidence of seam welding. I've also been involved in stripping a UK/Euro spec. I did see the extra metal around the rear strut turrets and it had more spot welds in various places than a JDM SiR that I stripped for various panels, but no seam welds. I have a few bits of Honda sales and promotional literature(JDM/UKDM/ITDM/OZDM) from the time and "chassis reinforcements" yes, but no mention of seam welding.

Mods please correct the autocorrect in the title back to Alfa Romeo. Otherwise we look like idiots.

Dave7CDMTYPER wrote: ↑Wed Aug 01, 2018 3:36 pm Mods please correct the autocorrect in the title back to Alfa Romeo. Otherwise we look like idiots.

lmao...….So True