For the third year in a row, the Alfa Club Slovenia is organising an annual "tourist rally", the 3rd Toti Rejli. Following the success of the first two meetings the club has decided to move rally from the Štajerska region to the capital city, and its surrounding areas. During both of the previous meetings more than 70 Alfa Romeo cars, from the latest models such as the Alfa 156 Crosswagon Q4 to 'oldtimers' like the Giulia and Duetto, took part and this year expectations are high.

The start of this year's edition - the 3rd Toti Rejli - will take place in the Capital City, Ljubljana. We will follow the road to the technical museum in Bistra, and the final event will be held at the former military base in Logatec. We expect around 70 Alfa Romeos from Slovenia, Croatia and Italy to take part. During the final event we are preparing a display of new breed of Alfa Romeo: the Alfa 159, 159 Sportwagon and Brera, as well as a line-up of old-timer Alfas, including the GTV6, Gulia, GT junior and 75 America. There will also be an exhibition of pictures of old Alfas which will be given away as lottery prizes and of course there will be plenty of good traditional Slovenian food and drinks.

The Alfa Club Slovenia was formed in the year 2004. It all started as internet forum where Slovenian Alfa Romeo enthusiast started to gather. Eventually the idea of founding our own Alfa Romeo club was brought up. First small meetings of around 5-15 cars were held in capital city Ljubljana. As more members joined the club, the bigger the meetings grew. The first large meeting was the "tourist rally", called the Toti Štajerski Rejli, which has already become a traditional annual event. This year’s will be the third staging in a row. The Club is also organizing four smaller and two bigger events during this year calendar. We also have a club boutique where members can buy clothes and souvenirs embalmed with club signs. The club has strong support of partners (car parts shops, Alfa Romeo dealers, etc), which participate in the events and also offer discounts to members of the club. Today the Club has swelled to 100 members.

As mentioned earlier the biggest event of the Alfa Club Slovenia's year is "tourist rally" called the Toti Rejli. The event is based around exploring our beautiful country and its many great sights. A fundamental plan for the first rally was to make the event unique, different from the regular classic car meetings.
 

We always give deep thought to the technical culture of Slovenia and the nation's culture in general. The destinations include museums, technology museums and castles, all of which are really unique settings for automotive events in Slovenia. The first two rallies were held in the Štajerska region, but for this year's third traditional meeting we have decided to move the event to the capital and its surroundings. Some of the interesting Alfa Romeo’s attending our meetings range from the newer 145, 147, 147 GTA, 156 GTA, GTV’s and Spider’s, to the older 33, 75 ,155, and finally the beautiful old-timers including the Duetto, Giulia, Sprint and GTV 6.

The 1st Toti Štajerski Rejli, started in Slovenska Bistrica. We visited the historic castle at Štatenberg where we had a great wine tasting session. The road the led to a beautiful church in Ptujska gora. The conclusion of this inaugural rally was held on mountain Boč. The start of the 2nd Toti Štajerski Rejli was in Celje, and we continued to Rogaška slatina, location of the Rogaška spa where we had a tour around the historic spa. The conclusion of the rally was held in ethnologic museum in Rogatec.

This year's event, the 3rd Toti Rejli will take place on Sunday 3rd September, with the participants gathering at Dolgi Most (Ljubljana) at 0900 before the programme gets underway with a late morning visit to the National Technical Museum at Bisra. For more information on taking part please visit www.alfa-klub.com

by Peter Peršolja