750 and 101 series cars 1954 – 1965
1/4/13:Â I am pretty sure that this car, Lot #132, is the same as the car below and is being auctioned by Gooding & Company on Saturday, January 19th. Â Estimate is an aggressive $200,000 – $225,000. Â The transformation is remarkable. Â Would love to see it in person.
Handsome machine.
Continue reading “Market 295: Giulia SS 381285 getting around”
I realize SVZ’s should probably be grouped with Sprints and Sprint Veloce’s, but the hand of Zagato and the hefty price tags makes me think they are better grouped with SZ’s.  There are never many of either changing hands, likely the result of there being 250 or so of both models combined potentially existing world-wide.  There do seem to always be a few changing hands every year -and a few more on offer as evidenced in this post.  I still think a late Coda Tronca SZ is my ultimate Giulietta. 
Market 418 was SZ 10126*00051, a nice one that sold at auction in Monaco for $340,000.
Market 379 was this Sprint Zagato Coda Tronca -one of a very few made, and whose number I never caught, with an asking price of 270,000 Euro’s -about $356,000.
Market 380 was an unidentified Sprint Zagato with a 300,000 Euro asking price – about $396,000.
Market 384 was Sprint Veloce Zagato 750 E 1493* 06184, a stunning example of a SVZ, selling for 414,400 Euro’s – about $546,000!
The Sprint market is also up for 2012. Â Good cars are more expensive than last year -the top cars are very expensive. Â Cheap ones don’t seem to have moved much though.![026[1]](http://giuliettas.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/0261.jpg?resize=525%2C351)
Market 375 was a $2500 Sprint shell with rust. Â I suppose it sold since I haven’t seen it making the rounds.
Market 322 was Sprint 750B 08650, just the body selling for $3800.
Market 387 was Giulia Sprint 10112*356053, selling for $8150.
Continue reading “2012 Sprint and Sprint Veloce market review”
The Sprint special market seems to have found its groove. Â Hopeless looking cheap ones start at a little over $20,000, with doable, but tough ones coming on at about $45,000. Â There is a strata in Europe where decent, well maintained cars seem to be readily available for $60,000 – $80,000, then at the top of the ‘regular’ SS’s are the nice US market cars between $125,000 and $150,000. Â Of course Low-nose cars occupy the top of the top.
Market 242 saw the resurfacing of SS 380956 -proving they are all viable these days.
Market 407 was SS 00440, reserve not met at $15,099.
Market 330 was SS 00381, selling for about $27,000.
The Spider market in 2012 is slightly up from 2011, with a lot of cars changing hands. Â There were, as always, a lot of cheap scary projects with decent cars coming in the list around $20,000 and thinning out as they approach the top car this year, with an ask of $125,000 -a very nice Veloce.
Market 391 was very early Spider 750D 00345 in very bad condition selling for $1000.
Market 451 was 10103*170856, a rough shell and some parts selling for $2850.
Market 395 was a Spider roller for a few grand.
Continue reading “2012 Spider and Spider Veloce market review”
1/4/13: Â Brad sent me this picture of his Gilera and Spiders. Â Nice! Â He also has a Honda CL77 Scrambler.
There’s some serious Italian metal in this garage!
12/27/12:Â Craig sent me this picture of part of his fleet -a very nice duo I think. Â Anyone else want to share a picture?
Color coordinated, technically interesting and neat! Â I’ve been looking longingly at /2’s for years. Â Thanks for sharing Craig.
12/23/12: I spent some time looking at Paul’s blog Vintagent the other evening, reminiscing about the days when I was all about motorcycles. Â Motorcycles are my first vehicular love, and my first love seems to be experiencing a revival, as I suddenly have slightly more than a few right now crowding my work space. I remember riding in front of my dad on his Triumph to preschool without a helmet -it was the mid-70’s, so I guess I was about 4 – must have stuck as great fun. Â I inherited that motorcycle for a few years (1991 – 2011 then gave it back), did a few miles on it and, most importantly, figured out how a lot of stuff, like brakes, clutches, electrons etc worked, and had some adventures. Â Alas for the near absence of pictures from the pre-cellphone days! 
1961 Honda CB72 13393, a rare thing, along the lines of a ’56 Sprint sort of rare, with lots of ‘early, one year only’ parts, and a 1964 CL72, somewhat like a ’59-’61 Spider sort of rare. Â I’ve rebuilt a few of these engines over the years. Â State of the art superb mechanicals with poor-ish chrome and paint applied over bare metal. Â Sound familiar? Â In a weird way Honda of 1962 is a lot like Alfa of 1962, though a case can be made that Ducati is the Alfa of motorbikes. Â Continue reading “Ramble 1: Parallel universes”
Giulietta Spider 10103*09805. Â This car is on eBay right now with a Buy it Now of $89,500. Â It’s a nice one, and before I get into the gory details of incorrectness, I have to remind myself and you gentle reader, that it’s HARD to get a car to this point. Â It requires either a steady check writing hand (and a very skilled payee) or an attention span worthy of a Nobel prize.
This is either a really good shade of red, or the lighting is just right. Â Fantastic shut lines, very nice trim, slightly on the blue side of silver wheels, Cibie headlamps. Â A nice one.
Continue reading “Market 453: Spider 09805 nice in red, yes it is!”
Update 12/18/12: Â They always turn up again -this guy at F40 Motorsports. Â Price of $139,000 is feeling more and more like a sensible high for SS’s and likely the neighborhood they will come to rest in for a while -unless of notable heritage or otherwise interesting. Â This car has few issues, and if red is you color a trip to Portland CT may be just the thing -though I think the leaves will all have fallen by now.
Nicely turned out with Borrani’s. Â Is it just me or are there a lot of wheel weights on that front wheel? Â Aren’t the bent ones supposed to go on the back (or get fixed??)? Â Panel fit is excellent. Â It’s quite red!
Continue reading “Market 422: Giulietta Sprint Speciale 177251 now at F40 -bring the kids!”
12/24/12: Â Understandably not sold for $21,100. Â Better pictures and a little research allowing for a candid appraisal of it’s condition by the seller would help.
12/17/12: Giulietta Spider 10103*171325, 1315*010625.  This car is on eBay right now out of  Quebec.  It looks okay, but it’s tough to tell much about a black car in dark pictures.  The seller seems to be a dealer of primarily American/Muscle type cars.  In the description they seem surprised the car has a twin cam engine.  Heh!
Nice! Â The chrome is all new as are the tires. Â Can’t say much about the paint/body -needs some outdoor pictures.
Update 12/24/12: Â Sold for $2850!
12/16/12: Giulietta Spider 10103*170856.  This partial car is on eBay right now out of Texas.  It comes with some of it’s parts, but no images or inventory are offered -the seller only confirms it’s missing the seats, engine, transmission and one windshield pillar.  I think that is probably the abbreviated list of macro parts missing, and that there will be plenty more.  The car itself is as pictured is a very rusty shell.  Proceed with caution.
From this angle, not too bad, just missing a little skin and a little banged up.
Continue reading “Market 451: Spider 10103 170856 -or what’s left of it”