1974 Alfa Romeo 2000 GTV SE

1974 Alfa Romeo 2000 GT Veloce SE (right hand drive) in Dutch Blue with Hazelnut cloth interior.
- According to the Alfa Romeo Museum archives this GTV was manufactured on April 26th 1974 and invoiced by the factory to Alfa Romeo Great Britain on July 2nd 1974. The original paint colour was Dutch Blue with Hazelnut Cloth interior. just as it is now.
- First registered new in England on May 16th 1975 as a 2000 GTV SE model.
- The large history folder for this car commences with an MOT certificate dated November 1982 when the odometer was recording just 13. 00 miles. The JX letters in the number plate indicate a London registration. and combined with the good condition of the notoriously fragile interior fabric. the seemingly original Alan Day dealer stamped front and rear number plates. that the first known keeper on the December 1985 dated V5 registration document on file (there were apparently three unknown owners before ) resided in Hayes. Middlesex. lead us to feel that there is a very good chance that those 13. 00 recorded miles were all that the car had covered from new.
- In November 1985 when about 19. 00 miles were recorded on the odometer. this GTV was purchased from a Mr Harold Davis of Hayes. Middlesex by the well known and regarded motoring journalist Richard Bremner. Mr Davis had purchased the car in December 1981.
- Sometime in 1988 Mr Bremner commenced a restoration on the car. during which he fortunately removed some of the items that made the car an SE model. such as the tobacco vinyl roof. and tinted windows. The well known Alfa Romeo trimmers TA and JM Coburn of Swindon supplied some new carpets for the car in May 1989. Part of the restoration is covered in one of Mr Bremners books. Alfa Romeo Giulia Spiders and Coupes. on the front cover of which features the finished car. It appears that the restoration was completed in June 1990.
- In September 1993 when the odometer recorded 26. 00 miles. Sussex Alfa overhauled the gearbox and replaced the second gear synchromesh.
- Mr Bremner retained the car until September 1995 when he sold it to a Mr Tim Davies of Bromley. Kent. at which time the odometer recorded about 28. 00 miles.
- Mr Davies hardly used the car. appearing to drive it for just a few hundred miles a year before placing it into storage in the summer of 2000. There is then a gap in the history folder from December 2002 until August 2009 when an invoice on file from Alfaman Services in Harrow. Middlesex. details a lot of work and expenditure on the car after recovering it from storage. The odometer was recording 30. 00 miles at this time.
- After further very minimal usage. Mr Davies sold the car to a Gentleman in Taunton. Somerset. in October 2011 when the odometer was recording 31. 00 miles. In Mr Davies' sixteen years of ownership he had covered only about 2. 00 miles.
- Fortunately all of the owners after Mr Davis sold the car in 1985 have been very methodical in retaining documentation on the car such as work invoices and MOT certificates. This has allowed a large history folder to be created containing seventeen previous MOT certificates as well as the selling invoices between the owners.
- This GTV is finished in a wonderful colour combination and is in excellent condition. with the interior presenting very well and having a lovely original feel. It also drives extremely well. just as you would expect a low mileage car to do.
- We need to mention that. as is so often the case. the car sadly does not have history going back to the day it was first registered which is why we cannot guarantee that the wonderfully low recorded mileage is correct. However. our opinion is that the recorded mileage could well be correct based on the fact that it is understood that the car resided in London during its early years and that the large history folder contains so much documentation such as previous MOT certificates. As always. the purchaser must make up their own opinion.
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