Giulia Sprint Speciale 10121*381030, 00121*00578. Â This rare RHD SS will be auctioned by Silverstone on February 22nd. Â It’s a clean example if the pictures tell the truth. Â I’m not sure why they are calling a mid-64 built car a 1967, but can speculate that it might have taken some time to go from Bertone to the RHD conversion folks and then to a dealer. Â 3 years? Â I suppose it could have been a late 64 car sold in early 67. Â Anyhow.
I like a good picture. Â This is the view you get when you look up mid stoop after you drop your keys on a wet morning while approaching it to go motoring. Â Description says it saw a bare metal respray recently.
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Market 322: Giulietta Sprint -some assembly required
Update 2/5/14:Â This is the car I referred to in the write up of the super rusted out Sprint a few days ago. Â Get that and this and you would have the basis for a doable project.
Update 2/1/12: Body appears to have sold for $3800 -this didn’t include much of anything to build the car out. Continue reading “Market 322: Giulietta Sprint -some assembly required”
Market 489: Spider project 10123 372516 “”Barn Find””
Update hours later:Â At $13,500 it suddenly seems a deal! Â Anyone here buy this?
I admit, I missed a good write up.
Giulia Spider 10123*372516. Â This car is on eBay out of Carlsbad -near San Diego- from Cavallo, seller of used exotics and mixed bag Craigslist find type cars. Â Seller describes it as a “Barn Find”. Â I’m not sure what the fascination is with putting phrases in quotes is… I would have thought putting barn find in quotes would make someone think it’s sort of like a barn find but not really a barn find. Â That’s why the double quotes… I’m quoting their unnecessary quotes. Â If they were to write a rebuttal, would they use something like is “””Barn Find””” when quoting me? Â Sorry – it’s early, the sun has yet to even slightly light my vertical stripe of the planet.
Hello sporty! Â Trim is all present and straight looking if a little bit dull. Â They state car was originally red, but the engine compartment is sending me white signals – I suppose it could be red under that white – but that’s a lot of work! Continue reading “Market 489: Spider project 10123 372516 “”Barn Find”””
Market 488: Sprint 10102 remains
Giulietta Sprint 10102.  Brian, who occasionally sells very very nice Alfa’s pointed out that this car is available now from Beverly Hills Car Club.  BHCC seems to have a knack for turning up rough project European Sports cars.  I wonder if it has anything to do with their pervasive Google ad campaign I see whenever I use Gmail.  The numbers stated for the chassis and engine don’t make any sense except that I suspect the chassis number reported “652701” is actually part of the Bertone body number, and shorter by 1 digit than any other 101 Sprint Bertone number I have tracked.  It’s rough, but get it together with the shell on eBay out of the SF Bay Area, and you might have something.  Asking price of $8950 is a bit high, but as parts I suspect it could realize 70% of this.
This is one of the worst Still together Sprints I’ve ever sen. Â Must have found a good place to hide when the hide and seek game started.
Market 486: Vandalized Spider in Florida
2/3/14:Â Any surprise??
1/25/2014: I hear the car has been sold.
Giulietta Spider. Â This 1960 Spider – presumably a 10103, is on Craigslist out of Florida. I get the sense from the description -naming the two individuals who did the damage – that there is an interesting, but sad (from the cars perspective) story to tell.
Looking for a home. Â Blows from a large hammer are not ideal for Pininfarina body work.
Veloce Bits – anyone here get these?
Update 2/1/14: I heard from a reader that they have seen this advert and a similar one before, and pursuing them got the same responses. Â I would call this a very targeted scam. Â If it’s too good to be true….
1/30/14:Â Jaan sent me a link to this Craigslist ad – I’ll be all over this if it wasn’t a bunch of timezones away!
Sometimes that news report is someone you know
I was shocked to learn last week that my friend Andy died in a work related accident. Â Andy was my age and his son Ford and Rufus were born a few weeks apart. Â We saw each other frequently at the park or the inevitable monthly toddler birthday party. Â Andy leaves behind the family he supported as a struggling independent business man. Â I always hear about how kind people are when it comes to helping strangers in need, so I thought I would pass this along. Â Donations for Sita, Lola and Ford.
Sorry for the off topic post.
Market 487: 750 Spider 03714 in Beverly Hills
Giulietta Spider 750D 1495*03714. Â Our friends at Beverly Hills Car Club have this 750 Spider based Abnormale on eBay right now. Â It looks nice enough but has some originality issues that 5 years ago would probably not have been as big a deal, but with these cars getting expensive, buyers will be doing research, and be quickly confused.
Almost looks black. Â Trim and panel fit is great. Â Borrani’s all around.
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Market 238: 58 Spider Veloce roller
Update 1/28/2014: Â $99,000 premium live auction result. Â This car has come a long way in almost 4 years. Â “The course of true love never did run smooth… Â So quick bright things come to confusion.”
Update 7/31/10: Seller ended the auction early when an acceptable bid came in. The new owner contacted me but a selling price was not revealed. I’m going to guess somewhere between $15k – $20k. New owner sounds enthusiastic about the car so hopefully the restoration will be seen through.
Giulietta Spider Veloce 750F 1495*03326, 1315*30818. This car is on eBay right now out of Michigan. As far as mostly disassembled roller projects go it is a pretty good starting point having matching numbers, not too much rust (I know -but I’ve seen so much worse) and no real accident damage. Step right up!
Nose looks great as a starting place -no ugly repairs to correct, no gaping rust holes and the Veloce intake divider seen here next to the drivers side marker light is in good shape.
Market 485: Sprint 1600 project in SF Bay Area
Update 1/27/14: Â I went and had a look for a reader here who bought the car for close to asking price. Â Some aspects were better than expected, some worse – but a decent buy on balance.
Giulia Sprint 10112 AR358494.  00112*12332 Body 6531139. There was a time when I would be all over a project like this Sprint 1600 on eBay, but nowadays I’m nose down focused on doing adult stuff like growing a business so I can buy a house for Rufus to grow up in.  I know what you’re thinking – 5 posts ago I was patting myself on the back for buying a Spider not unlike this in its requirement for commitment and effort – fair enough – but I have been rationalizing that purchase with the notion I might sell the Porsche or AH3000 to preserve space, funds and sanity.  I am sitting a few minutes from the seller of this car, so if anyone wants me to check it out for them – I wouldn’t mind the excuse to go see it for myself.
Looks a bit like mine – even more like Aaron’s. No deal breaker issues from this angle. Â There was a time when old Sprints like this could regularly be found on the streets of Berkeley, San Francisco and other Bay Area cities. Â Lots of them sold new here. Â
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