By Tom Ducibella

Photos by Tom, Frank & Karen Anigbo, and Meg Anderson

This year's North Shore AONE tour  was initially faced with a less than solar forecast, but then the Alfa gods woke up, cancelled the rain, removed the usual Saturday shore traffic, and brought out the faithful to Glynn Motorsports. This all resulted in a wonderful drive, meeting new members, eleven caravanning Alfas, and a final collection of Alfas at GMS, many of which are rarely seen together except at Tutto Italiano. Paul Glynn was his usual entertaining answer-man self for anything historical or technical Alfa.

In addition to the locals (Peter Walker & Meg Anderson, John Paradiso, Michael & Deb Leccese, Greg Stidsen, and Tom Ducibella), the rest stop launch point brought together Jon Levi & Kay Tanfield, Frank & Karen Anigbo, new member Fran Mastroianni, Giorgio Kradjian, John Basel, and Gino Evangelista. We proceeded up to Gloucester, through the famous clam country (fried clams, that is) in Essex, and on to an Ipswich Little Neck parking area for an ocean photo op.

Defying the clouds, all Spider tops were still down and the hearty drove on through the marshlands of Newbury, and finally south to Glynn Motorsports, where ingegneri Paul Glynn and Michael Wrigley met us. We were joined by several other Alfisti who had driven directly there (Tom Frieberger from VT, Bill Fannon, Paul Leone, Len Cannizzaro, and Rod Burdick). The group included a Giulia Nuova, Sprint Speciale, Giulia Spider, Montreal, Duettos, various GTVs, and more recent Spiders. A lunch of wonderful tasty sandwich wraps was supplied by Cathy’s Country Kitchen (Route 1 in Rowley, a breakfast and lunch stop, often sought-after by clients and friends of Glynn Motorsports).

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