Mrs. Jones

The first time that I had heard that lovely old Alfa Romeo 17/50 referred to as the Mrs. Jones Alfa was from an old friend, the late John Phillips, who was part of the executive of the NSW branch of VSCCA at the time, exclaiming "you've got the Mrs. Jones Alfa down there!" when he learned that the long lost (to the Sydney crowd) Alfa lived in South Australia. Recently I discovered this yellowing Photograph of the car in an old yearbook accompanied by the meagre description that Alfa Romeo make very fine cars.

That must be Mrs. Jones sitting behind the wheel. It's certainly the car. I'm positive there's not another like it. Anyway, the photo turning up was exciting to me and I felt like sharing it.
Here's TC and Dave competing in a Watts Trial in a later life.

Obvious additions are the P100 headlights, a legacy of an involvement with Mk. IV Jags and the Buick 6 steering box which found its way on to the car for similar availability reasons.
An even later stage in its life is shown in this photograph

that I took at Sandown at that event where "The Maestro" in the Mercedes and "Sir Jack" in the Repco Brabham got stuck into a 5 lap demonstration that turned into a full on race. That entire race is on YouTube. I'd like to dig it out later because it's an exciting piece of footage. Anyway, at the time, it was great to catch up with the Alfa which by then had made its way into the John Lawson collection. He had always owned the original engine, blower and gearbox although at that stage the car still had its V8 powerplant and Lancia Lambda box.