Market 228: Unfortunate Sprint 101 22315

Update 2/4/19: This car has turned up in Los Angeles without having had reconstructive surgery.

Update 8/27/18:  Has anyone seen this car in the last 8 years?  Side grills have a Wallace and Gromit feel I didn’t notice before.

Update 7/1/10: This car was sold for $7100 after 21 bids were placed.  Not such a bad deal for what appears to be a very complete, original and solid project car with a bad nose job to fix.

Giulietta Sprint 10102 22315. This car is on eBay right now out of New York or possibly Montreal.  Other than some unfortunate modifications it’s a pretty original solid example.  Would be kind of fun to leave the modifications and use it as is for a few years to upset concours judges and the like.

Kind of has a Facel Vega feel or maybe something garish from Ghia on a 1900 platform -but interpreted by a drunk from a small picture in the back of a magazine.  That Bertone badge placement next to the passenger side headlamp is really horrible.

I have to assume that there was an accident and someone got clever with the repair.  Looks great from the A pillar back.

Bertone badge back here is not good either, but the rest of the car looks great -I bet this paint could even be made to shine.

Very original.  I wonder if they could be salvaged?

Hood scoops are just plain weird.  Front end does look flattened from this angle.

Jeez, is this from a Chevy or what?  Everything else looks okay except the peely dash cover.

The heater fan is odd -never seen a mod like that.  Compression numbers, all from 130 – 140 means it should run reasonably well and they will probably come up a little with some use if it hasn’t run in a while.

I got a lot of emails about this one -unified by a sense of awe bordering on nausea, but if gotten for the $6K it is right now or a little more, this would be a good entry into Sprints and may actually make a decent rolling restoration -but I guess that depends if you could be seen with this front end on your Sprint.