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Or an Italian car.
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RE: your complex Alfa Romeo situation.
I recall an article that suggested the designers of Fiats (of 1970s vintage)
had extreme anxiety complexes.
How else to explain using six bolts to secure an air-cleaner,
when many other cars (many from the USA) got along with one wingnut?
(I love the eccentricities of auto mechanisms from around the world;
but some are a pain to work with, for sure!!!)
I remember that article!
But it was the German cars that had the 6 10 mm bolts to secure the small access panel. The Italian cars just had a couple of sheet metal screws, but they were inaccessible due to some other component!
Hah! It’s all true!