Author: hamilton.mm

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Market 377: SS 00158 in Portugal

Giulietta Sprint Speciale 10120*00158, 00120*00518.  Henrick sent me a note alerting me to this cars presence on Anamera.  It looks to be a pretty well maintained car, with an especially nice, mostly original looking interior.  Asking price is a reasonable €38,000 -well, reasonable if the underside of the car looks as good as the rest!  Always interesting to see a car surface that’s not on my register -I’m at 110 Giulietta Sprint Speciales on my register -that’s approaching 10% of production surviving.

I like cars in a blue so dark it looks black.  Paint looks good, trim and all is right for a nice driver.

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De-evolution

Not sure I’ve shown this picture before.  I stopped in my local Giant Burger for a quick meal and couldn’t resist the photo op.  This is why it’s scary to drive a Sprint as your daily car.  I am happy to see sense returning to the roadways with the proliferation of Fiat 500’s, the new Honda CRX update CRZ, the Scion IQ and others -maybe a day approaches where the Sprint will be the big car int he picture…

Either one of those cars could door ding me on my roof line!  Melee sticker has been removed but a bunch of paint came with it (insert frown).

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Mystery Giulietta Sprint

I got an email from reader Joe about this car with some question marks.  Anyone recognize this car”  It’s a new one for me.  Has some cues from Pininfarina.

Don’t hate me, but it looks a bit like the bastard child of a 330 GTC and an Austin America… Anyone recognize this?

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Market 376: Sprint 750E 04239 in Japan

Giulietta Sprint 750E 1493*04239, 1315*30449.  This car is listed on Antea Cars out of Japan.  I haven’t had the opportunity to write about very many lightweights, but they all seem to be this color so far.  Car is in great shape -only really lacking in the originality dept, and only minorly, but nothing a few bucks wouldn’t cure.  It is described as having been restored in Japan, which is probably a good thing.  Enthusiastic, detail oriented folks if the few genuine articles I’ve met were a representative sample.  I wonder if this car did anything race-wise back in the day…Did these have little market lights?  I like this color, but is it lighter in pictures than in person?  In the Coup Des Alps footage it’s a little darker looking  Body is in very nice shape.

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Market 375: Sprint shell 750B 07103

Giulietta Sprint 750B 1493.07103.  This car is on Craigslist out of Pittsburgh PA.  It’s rough -really rough, and incomplete, and rusty.  Was raced SCCA production G.  This will probably be the cheapest Sprint of 2012…

Sprints always look optimistic to me, something about the shape of the grill openings or shape of the headlight area.  Does it come with doors?

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Market 374: Giulietta SS racer in Italy

Giulietta Sprint Speciale 10120, 00120.  This unknown SS is for sale out of Italy for €35,000.  It has the road-racer treatment that seems to get applied to cars that need restoration work to gloss over their short-comings -though this example looks to have been used on the track some.  These are valuable enough that cars like this one will enter an original-ification program before long.

Looks decent.  Paint on the hood barely matches that on the rest of the car.  Picture it without the decals or ‘cage and it could be a decent event car.  Sorry -I’m not a fan of a bunch of stickers all over a car like this.

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Interesting parts: set of 5 early production Fergat wheels 1365.52.810

Giulietta part number 1365.52.810 -Disc wheel – Fergat 4 1/4 J x 15 CZ.  This full set of early ‘rolled lip’ Fergats is on eBay right now.  Asking price is $1500, steep seeming, but when rarity and condition are weighed, probably a pretty good deal -especially if you need a set for your 1956 Sprint!  The parts book makes no mention of an early/late style for these, so a cut off point for production is tough to pin down.  Anyone have a car with these and care to share a vin?  Parts book says each car uses a quantity 2 -humorous typo.

Imagine these on your car!  Fresh wheels do a lot for the impression a car makes on you.  BMW Polaris silver?

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Strange Giulia Super ‘Torpedo’ for sale

I got a bunch of links from Maurizo that included one to this car for sale.  As you can see, it’s an open top/no doors stretched Giulia Super sedan in a style that most people in know would call ‘like a Fiat Jolly’, but sans wicker.  On Capri, in 2003, I saw a mid-60’s Fiat 1500 station wagon done up this way.  This sort of car was commissioned to give slow, fair weather (obviously) guided tours and serve as a hyper local taxi or errand running vehicle in resort areas.  I could easily imagine this being some manufacturing executives facilities touring car -in Arese perhaps…  oh, and it’s €75,000!

If you put your hand on the screen to obscure everything from the windshield back, it just looks like a very nice Super.  I like how the arm rests also keep the passing-out drunk from slipping out of the car.  

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Market 373: Spider 10123 -super clean

Update 1/23/12: Alex contacted the seller and the stats are: Giulia Spider 1600 AR10123*378512, 00112*33388.  Thanks Alex!

Giulia Spider 1600 10123.  This car is available on Hemmings out of South Carolina for $39,500.  Seller is listing it for a late friend – I presume for the estate.  Condition looks really good, with some non-original touches that don’t really detract unless you’re a serious purist.

I like how clean the lines are in white -and when the rest is all blacks and silvers, it lends an almost clinical beauty.  Hood and door fit well.  Chromed wheels may have been a dealer add-on.

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