By Pete Vack
Photos by Stephen Patchin
On a cold, windswept afternoon in 1996, I stood next to the late Howard Moon as both of us looked at what had once been a thriving Alfa Romeo dealership in Falls Church, Virginia. I noted that the familiar round Alfa Romeo signs no longer proudly hung near the front of the building, which was now busy with a much more lucrative SAAB franchise. “A sign of the times, perhaps?” said Moon.