Automobiles You’ve Never Seen an Alfa Romeo GTV Quite Like This BeforeTwo brothers took a banged up 1974 Alfa Romeo 105 GTV and fixed it up to near universal praise.

Iliya had been working with a friend on a lifted, safari-ready Porsche 911, and he began wondering what the 105 GTV would look like with all-terrain tires. He shared renderings with Nik, who loved them, and off they went. The resurrection and reinvention took only three weeks; as a Canadian citizen with an expired visa, Nik needed to take time off work and turned into a full-time mechanic. (“We’re designers, not engineers,” says Iliya. “We think engineers are lazy and don’t know shit, and, like, how hard could it be? That’s how designers think.”)

Not surprisingly, there are no companies producing off-road parts for 105 Series Alfas, so the Bridan brothers started assembling a hodgepodge of parts from Broncos, Defenders, and the like. They rendered a roof rack in CAD, then fabbed it up and filled it with NATO jerry cans and a spare. Dialing in the suspension required a lot of patience; the guys had to remove the car’s bump stops and commission a custom set of springs. Iliya and Nik couldn’t find off-road automotive tires small enough for the Alfa’s 14-inch wheels, but they did find a set of side-by-side “buggy” tires that would fit.

But Benny is wrong; this Alfa is back, and even better than used to be, thanks to the overwhelming energy between Iliya and Nikita. The womb-mates dubbed their creation Dropped Alfa, the driest, most appropriate name possible. “We loved it before, but it’s even more fun now,” Nik says. “It’s opened up a new world for us. We’ve always been into canyon driving and doing autocross and track days. Now we go up to Mammoth and find all these roads, or we go on Google Earth and find all these remote places. It’s like, ‘Fuck, that’s awesome — we could go there!’”