What you wouldn't write today ...
While researching for our Alfa Romeo Giulia Super driving report, we also came across the endurance test in Auto Motor und Sport magazine from 1967, which was written by Manfred Jantke at the time. While the Giulia performed quite well in the 50,000-km endurance test, there were some things in the text that could neither be done nor described in such a way today, for example:
"A commendable role is often played in winter by the manual throttle cable, with which the Alfa is equipped according to good old custom: After starting up in the morning, you can set the engine speed to 1500 - 2000 rpm (without choke, mind you!), and by the time you've scraped the ice off the windows, the interior is already starting to warm up."
Or at another point, Jantke wrote:
"From the outset, we were determined not to show any consideration for the sports car, in other words not to give the Alfa any special treatment. We drove it just like the other cars: there was no warm-up minute after the cold start, and we were not afraid to drive at full throttle for a few hundred kilometers. Sometimes the test car was only used in city traffic for weeks on end, and then we drove from Stuttgart to Hamburg at sports car speed."
Conversely, this meant that a Ferrari 330 GTC or a Lamborghini 350 GT would have been allowed a few minutes to warm up ...
Different times, different customs.
