Wheeler Sellers host Mike Brewer has revealed he “couldn’t consider” his luck after discovering a surprising basic Alfa Romeo on the facet of the street.
The TV star rapidly circled and made a proposal on the spot to safe the enduring Alfa Romeo GTV.
Solely round 41,000 GTV fashions had been ever produced and it’s believed simply over 1,000 stay within the UK.
The uncommon mannequin turned a fair higher discover when Mie found it had just one earlier proprietor.
Chatting with Categorical.co.uk, Mike defined: “On my approach to work a street was shut so I needed to go down this lengthy diversional route and I am following the arrows to get to the place I’ve obtained to be to movie with the blokes and I whip previous an Alfa GTV on a driveway.
“It simply had ‘on the market’ on it and I thought of it, circled and went again. The man got here out of the home as a result of I used to be standing on his driveway and it ended up being one proprietor from new, 1999 Alfa GTV three-litre V6, one proprietor from new.
“I could not consider it. If that diversion route hadn’t taken me that path to go to work that day I’d by no means have seen that automobile.
“That finally ends up being within the present and we do a tremendous job and take it to a racetrack in Italy after.”
The Alfa Romeo GTV was produced by the Italian marque between 1996 and 2004. Able to as much as 240bph, the mannequin might attain 0-60mph in simply over six seconds.
Jeremy Clarkson was beforehand a fan of the gorgeous machine, reportedly describing the GTV as “among the best sports activities automobiles of its time” again in 1998.
Mike added: “Image what that appears like after I bowl into work that day and Elvis and all the remainder of the crew are focussing on discovering a Ford Transit and I pull in and go ‘guys, cease every little thing I’ve seen an Alfa GT we’re going to purchase it’. We now have to vary tact and go in a special path, it is fairly humorous.”
The Alfa Romeo GTV was absolutely retired by the crew earlier than being flown out to Italy for a take a look at drive. Screenshots forward of the episode airing present the duo with the automobile on the Autodromo di Varano close to Parma.
Marc Priestley, nicknamed Elvis, admitted the crew had usually determined to ditch automobiles they had been planning to purchase when noticing one thing higher.
He commented: “Typically you simply see a automobile by the facet of the street with an enormous on the market sticker on it. There are some nice examples of that the place we have truly going to take a look at one automobile and ended up with one thing fully totally different. Like everyone on the market it is not all simply pre-planned and thought of prematurely, generally you suppose on the fly you simply see one thing and it really works.”
Wheeler Sellers airs Mondays at 9pm on Quest and is obtainable on Discovery+.