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April 20, 2013

Market 472: Spider 10123 375062 – all the money

Giulia Spider 10123*375062, 00112*06976. This 1600 Spider is available now for $55,000 from Classic Investments. A trend the last few days: original cars for big money? Guess so. This car looks like it could be polished out a bit more and made to shine. A $55,000 car? Some sympathetic hands could probably get it to the level of Market 467 – and possibly the magic $80,000 range. This was good Veloce money moments ago!

Definitely a candidate for some OCD attention to detail. Yes, still my favorite color! Three shoe brake model.

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April 19, 2013

Market 471: Clean and bright Spider 10123 379673

Later that day: Asking price is $64,500. Big dough for a 10123?

Giulia Spider 1600 10123*379673, 00112*15263. Following in the footsteps of Market 467 is this extremely clean Spider. Presentation is fantastic -almost a little too much production on the pictures some might say, but refreshing compared to the dark low-res pictures I so frequently have to work with. No pictures of the underside are available and the engine compartment could use some detailing, but these may turn out to be trivialities based on what you find when you go look at it.

Hey Aaron, which region is LA? See what I mean about the production value of the pictures? This isn’t photoshopped into a sea of milk, it’s in a nice photo booth of sorts. Oh, and the general fit and finish of the car looks fabulous. Anyone know this car? Continue reading “Market 471: Clean and bright Spider 10123 379673”

April 18, 2013

Market 469: Spider Veloce 10125*10115 in PA

Update 4/23/2013: Seller contacted me to tell me the original block is included. I guess this mitigates some of the ‘original engine’ perceptions. Can perceptions be mitigated? Hmmm.

Giulietta Spider 10125*10115. This clean Spider is available through Hemmings right now. They seem to let their listings ride for months -probably to keep the overall site listing count from dipping below some minimum, so there’s no guarantee it’s still available, but a quick call to the seller should tell. The car is very clean and shiny, with compelling, although way too dark to reveal much of the details images. If you are in the market for an early LWB Spider Veloce and $99,500 doesn’t scare you off, you should book a trip to PA and go take it for a drive.

Nearly invisible door shut lines? Check. Borrani wheels? Check. 20 footer? Check. Car looks really good, but these images are too dark and too low resolution to be more than marginally useful. Enough to base a trip to PA on I guess.

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April 17, 2013

Market 468: 1900 Touring coupe project

Update 4/25/2013: I would not have guessed that this would reach $29,100. Seventeen people wanted it, so that had to help.

4/17/2013: 1900 Touring Coupe AR1900C*10476. I had lunch today with some fairly well equipped Italian car enthusiasts and the subject of ‘what do you buy now-a-days’ came up. I complained (not sure that’s the perfect word) that the days of Fiat 8V’s, Siata 208S’s, Lancia Aurelia’s and other interesting coach-built stuff available as projects seemed to have passed, that my generation had to make do with the sort of ‘hold-overs or left-overs’ from the golden age unless smiled upon by fortune. A fairly quick response from a Giulietta Sprint Veloce Confortevole owner was “what about 1900 Alfa’s?”. “Beautiful but complicated for the performance” was my response -but I kept asking myself on my way home. “What about 1900 Alfa’s?” The Touring Coupe’s are lovely cars. Projects aren’t rare and nice cars are fairly affordable in the grand Alfa scheme. What about 1900 Alfa’s indeed. This jumping-off point in my exploration is available on eBay now.

The Giulietta Spider enthusiasts are noting that at first glance it looks quite familiar -besides the roof anyway. In person you’d never make this connection -the 1900’s are a good 110% the size of a Giulietta. Metal here all looks great.

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April 16, 2013

Market 364: Fantastic early 750B 03811 in Switzerland

Update 4/16/13: They all show up eventually it seems and this fellow is no exception -find it here on eBay. Car body is described as having been restored in the Czech Republic, the mechanicals in Germany. I suspect the owner handled a lot of the little details that would eat up hundreds of paid hours. I can’t really comment on the asking price -I imagine the seller has quite a bit in it to have taken it to this level. I am quite taken by this color -maybe a good choice for my Sprint. Very very nice. I need one of these front plate brackets. Continue reading “Market 364: Fantastic early 750B 03811 in Switzerland”

April 12, 2013

2013 pledge drive

Update 4/11/13: It’s hard to come up with words appropriate to covey the appreciation I have for all of your support and participation in the site. Thank you all very much!!

I *think* everyone who is supposed to have a T shirt has gotten one. -if not let me know.

Update 3/31/13: It’s rabbit egg day and thanks to all of you the bills are paid and I can make some more progress on my plan to index the site and create a database for the reference resources I have been gathering and normalizing. Back to the regularly scheduled program! Oh, and I owe a handfull of you all T shirts! I’ll send some emails on Monday morning. One of you asked me whether I might consider adding Lancia’s to the channel line up. I have considered it, and having worked on them, owned several and currently owning two makes me as much of an authority as is needed to give commentary so perhaps I will.

It’s that time of year again where I get my renewal notices for services related to the site. It’s been an interesting year – hanging out with Rufus, working on getting a business (or few) off the ground, moving shop three times and home once, and squeezing a few minutes out here and here to add something to the site. I really need to index the site properly soon as I can’t find some posts I know are on here somewhere -so look for that in the near future.

Rufus loves oranges! Nice cable knit sweater Ruf! Continue reading “2013 pledge drive”

April 11, 2013

Market 467: Very nice original 10123 373589 -SOLD!

Giulia Spider 10123*373589, 00112*03357. Reader Larry hipped me to the sale of this car -at $80,000 probably the most expensive white 1600 Normale ever to sell…? It is a documented 28,779 mile car. It is beautiful. It has had a ton of very sympathetic work done. Check it out!

Another very compelling composition! I’d be more than happy to drive this around.

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April 10, 2013

Market 466: Shin’s SS 380596 for sale in California

Giulia SS 10121*380596. This car is available right now from Shin Yoshikawa -a name you may recognize if you have or have seen one of those cool cut-away type illustrations of Alfa’s -I think I have one of his TZ2 posters. This SS is a time-warp of a sort -having some detailing that most SS owners today would change -like the hot-roddy red and white interior. Asking price is a reasonable seeming $100,000 -hard to say that considering the best ones were $40,000 when I started this blog.

Looks nice. -especially hanging out with it’s older brother -a 10120. Is that wind deflector red? Continue reading “Market 466: Shin’s SS 380596 for sale in California”

April 10, 2013

Market 465: Sprint 1600 353403 in San Diego

Giulia Sprint 1600 10112*353403. This car is available right now from Motoring Investments in San Diego. They have sold several very nice Alfa’s over the years and by all accounts do very high quality work getting the cars ready for sale. This particular example is overall very clean and ready for use, with some slight detail changes that could stand to be done to take it to the next level. Fantasy Junction sold that very nice one I wrote about recently for $56,500, so this one at $47,500 doesn’t seem too far off.

Perfectly clean? Check! Neutral background? Check! Slightly saturated color? Check! Most handsome angle? Perhaps. A nicely composed image.

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April 7, 2013

Market 312: Nicely modified 10105 Sprint at FJ -Sold!

Giulietta Sprint 10105 1493*21131. This car was recently sold through Fantasy Junction. Asking price was about $56,000. I believe this is a car that was sold through Cars Dawydiak a few years ago, but I’ve seen a lot of these cars, so I may be mistaken. Even though it has been sold, I thought I would do a quick write up since it’s a nice but non-original normale that has been hot-rodded and that sold for more than a few recently sold, nearly perfect restored 101 Normale’s I’ve seen. An interesting data point for those that care.

Nicely painted, trim fits well, lowered, ready for action. Continue reading “Market 312: Nicely modified 10105 Sprint at FJ -Sold!”