That’s the best looking battery tray I’ve ever seen

I love your replacing unreliable rubber bushings with bronze/brass and actually fixing the problem. Great work.

Tidying up an engine bay is one of life's greatest joys.

Alfa spider is one of the most beautiful cars ever made.

Gorgeous Fulvia in the background...lovely as always.

back in the 80's a good friend Bernard Forsman rebuilt my 1984 1800 Giulietta engine ....it was perfect ... watching this now makes me miss it so.... driving old alfas is such a visceral experience, it gets in ones soul.

Love your meticulous working ethics

I would loooove a 2nd channel with all your videos in a playlist without narration and just the sounds of the workshop and nature. Absolutely perfect slow Tv content for vintage car nuts… and more. If I had a tv in my garage I’d use it as company when working on my own car 😅

Alfa 105/115 engines are industrial art!

Once again, great viewing Jethro, thank you so much.

Amazing video ! Thank you from all alfisti !

Perhaps I've mentioned before, I used to remove and replace the engine of my '66 Sprint with the gearbox, carbs and airbox, but left the exhaust manifolds in the car. I remember them being a bugger. If I recall, a large jubilee clip helped with that rubber coupling. Mother of invention and all that stuff. My record was 6 hours to take out, replace clutch, re install everything, on my ace.

Bravo bravo bravo! ❤️

Love your attention to detail Jethro, a man after my own heart. Fantastic episode.

Your photography, detail work and voice overs are impeccable. I feel so calm, and at peace with myself and the world after watching your work. Job well done!!

So good to have you back Jethro, and a good episode to be back with 👍

Good job.sir❤

I'm learning a lot here. Will certainly come back if there is a need. Thank you

Wonderful

Splendid!

Excellent!

Such a great job on a truely beautiful car

You are such an "old school expert" with younger agility and true love of the 105s series, here in Australia, I come from a family of car people, my late father was an expert panel shop owner, from an era after WW11 when nothing was available, he would hand build panels for RR/Bentley, mainly British.....when he retired he rebuilt a very sad Aston Martin DB4 Zagota, his superannuation package. I'm more Italian & German, I have owned a Duetta, Karman tail Spider, 2x 105 coupe (1750 & 2litre GTV, an Alfetta GT (1.8L), and Alfasud tii and a 3 litre Alfetta GTV....I drove rally "works" Toyota Coupes and a Formula Libre.....these days I photograph Historic Motor Racing, here in OZ and when I'm in Spain with my Basque wife, Masters and Historics. Keep up your fine series, I consume every one of them...... ps we are about to relocate to The Basque Country of Spain, where I will restore a 60s Maserati or Ferrari, no children, so can indulge myself, running out of years at 70!

Love it mate! Like therapy watching these.

The level of your craftsmanship is absolutely outstanding. Fascinating work, Jethro. Can't wait to see Porco's revival!

Jethro, your video's are class A...I always learn something new. Many thanks.

Great to see you back with another almost ASMR like vid. Eye for detail, great styling, love it!

What to say... WOW!

Humm...the sound of the rain...mis that weather...nothing like smelling the ar after the rain ...in Natal reagion

Great Job! I used to own one of the later 2000 Spiders in the ubiquitous red. You cars look so good in white.

Impressive work!

I was thinking of dropping you a line but then thought that may be a bit presumptive of me. Welcome back Jethro. I am going to enjoy this video at my leisure!

Elegant and entertaining.

nice work on every part you did the little things that most people overlook great job love the car

If only many Alfa "experts" consider each of your videos as a definitive lesson on how to treat, handle and love an Alfa Romeo, we would feel very, very happy indeed! Thank you once again Jethro.

Your experience in pulling the engine in and out really shows. Doing the difficult parts out of the car makes a huge difference. Awesome instructional video as always.

Your attention to detail and vision for quality spans your mechanics into your filmmaking. You're a genius, Jethro!

Excellent presentation tremendous attention to detail excellent presentation.😎

Man, I love your videos: your focus on details allows me to learn a lot about these cars, even though I do know my Alfas :) The engine was installed that same way at the Arese factory too, but of course, they had four people doing it: two above and two below the car!

Jethro it’s nice to have you and your videos back again….the duetto is and ever will be a very close to my heart car! You are doing a great work keep feeding us with it

Excellent work as always. The hints and tricks on the little fiddley cables, bushings, pivot points etc are absolutely wonderful additions to the body of knowledge often gained at great amounts of grief and anguish. The community loves you for this work

The automotive Bob Ross is back ...!

Jethro- HEAVY APPLAUSE! Your videos have always been lucrative and informative…but… there is a fresh ELEGANCE to the learning…visually SMASHING!

Yay it’s here!!

Delightful to see another episode, mate. Good on you!

8:53 That was honestly mind-blowing for me. Are they seriously that light?! I can't imagine doing that with a modern powertrain. Beautiful work as always.

This is exactly the inspiration I need to start working on my spider again...

Another masterpiece... I so enjoy your vids for the simple, straightforward delivery.. no interruptions about sponsors or patreons or "me.. me... me" type comments... excellent.

Wait, let me get a cold beverage.......so now go ahead ....😉

Looks great and can’t wait to see it on the road 🤘🥳👍

Well done. Perfect work

Such a classy channel

Not only is your work top notch, but also is the narration and the video quality. Always worth the wait for new episodes. Well done! Can't wait to see the Spider back on the road. Chapeau!

Finally! Been waiting for this for some time. Thanks again Jethro 👏

Nice work!

Bravo, Jethro. Beautiful episode and great result :-)

nice job !

Personnal trick: For replacing impossible to find rubber bushing, I’ve used hockey pucks (I’m Canadian !) frozen than machined on my small DIY lathe. Works perfectly if a little stiff, which I want.

Fantastic video, seeing someone fix up a classic like this is always enjoyable, keep it up

The best things in life are worth waiting for! We’ll worth the wait, excellent episode 😀

Calm, quiet, methodical, neat, thorough. I wish you were my personal auto maintenance technician! A pleasure to watch.

Yes,Lookin' good again! Can't wait for the porco series haha

That was a great sound to hear at the end. Keep up the good work Jethro.

Congratulations 👏🏻 👏🏻👏🏻 you’ve worked very hard for this project!!RESPECT!!!

Bellissimo!

I’m sure we all love the Duetto and your videos as much as I do. 😎👍

Great work as always Jethro!

Absolutely fantastic, thank you so much, Jethro!

Watch game still strong. Love these videos. Very relaxing content while being informative. Great combo

As always another great episode your attention to detail is a precise and satisfying to watch. It's great to see that any weak points you come to i.e linkages you aren't afraid to impove, even though it's a departure from what was fitted at factory. Hope to see another episode soon keep up the great work.

It is worth restoring because those cars sell for crazy money. 🙂

Production value! Amazing work, both on the car and on the content, really appreciate it, and it is always worth the wait!

Another epic episode!; although I was beginning to wonder what happened 😟Anyhoo, it's such a treasure to watch you work and it's a shame more people aren't subbed. BTW, that battery box was some very nice engineering. Looked "factory."

Lovely work , very inspiring. I can't help but ogle that pretty Fulvia in the background and wonder....

Hooray, another Jethro episode!

Wonderful work. Quality of the video, especially produced solo, is outstanding. Thank you for what is obviously a labor of love!

gorgeous looking alfa jethro

As always: A work of art!

I love your considered engineering style. Your car will not only be a thing of beauty it will be an improvement on the original. A big 👍s up.

Do you need a choke with those Webers . OK it was a Lotus Twin Cam engine, but , I found even in the coldest English winter cold start. Two pushes on the throttle pumped enough petrol in via. the pump jets it would always start and run . Hand throttle is a feature I miss on modern cars .

I see I fitted the exhaust manifold nuts on backwards. I supposed I'm to used to fitting nylocks. I also put in a Delco one wire Alternator and just moved a smaller AGM battery to the trunk.

Interesting “workbench “ for holding parts left for installation. :)

Very, very good video, Jethro. Specifically I like the home built battery box and the idea to use screws instead of spot welds. Some (unburnt) paint between the body and the box will give it an extra ten years.

Really thankful to you for this video! We’re still a little far from this engine-in installing but we save this perfect collection of suggestiins in our library!

Wow a real Fiat Bambina 500 original, i learned to drive in 1 of those, very tite turning circle , plus need to double clutch , plus 45mph top speed

Awesome work I was in the NR area recently and wondered what’s going on with your channel. Now I know 😌

Another great video. Beren awhile for sure, thought you may have gotten covid.

It’s great to see you back Jethro with another great video. Have you seen Home built by Jeff and his Ferrari engined Alfa 105?

Awesome video men, i love you chanel... it's incredibly unfair the "likes", you deserve many more

i remember these alfas from my high school days. so sleek with those low haunches and hood, my my... were they ALL white? haha excellent video production quality BTW, from the commentary and content to the filming. ...well done sir!

Very nice work and entertaining video Jethro!

Zen.

Thank you for another fantastic video. The drive shaft Flex joint you referred to, is called a giubo pronounced jew-bow. Invented by Antonio Boschi

nice, love the brass bushings- check duetto spelling in tittle by the ;) the Italians will not be happy

Don't know how many job offers you get, but I'd hire you in a minute.

I AM RUNNING OUT OF VIDEOS TO BINGE DAMMIT.

Is that a Myford lathe? Nice piece of real-thing old-school tech if so. A classic for home machinists.

Its been a while. Still waiting for that 500 Abarth…

Hey Jethro, don’t know if I’m more excited to see the engine in the spider, or the Goldwing ! You posting anything on that ?

Lovely work, i much prefer the old tech, at least a blown buld won't trip circuit modules and put the car in limp mode :D