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October 19, 2015

Market 518: Ex Mexico Sprint in UK 750B 07473

Giulietta Sprint 750B 1493*07473, 1315*06684. This late second series Sprint 750B is available in the UK on eBay. Price is about $28,000 with 32 bids as I type. It was originally a Mexico market car, so would have been partially assembled by Willys Overland – in one of those “make work” trade deals Alfa had in a few countries. This car looks to have a well applied coat of paint and presents pretty well, but many parts are missing, some quite tricky to locate, that the seller hopefully has – I would get a list before buying. Not the best pictures either, unless you are the kind that can buy a car based on eight similar shots of the nose.

Front trim looks good at this distance. Rims will need painting. Windshield trim is missing. Not easy to find in good shape if you need it.

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October 14, 2015

Market 517: Spider 10484 up for auction in UK

Giulietta Spider 10103*10484, 00536*15683 (not original!). H&H will be auctioning (actually probably was auctioned a few hours before I started writing) this Spider. Estimate is 50 – 55,000 British Pounds. Looks to be a nice example, but is not super original under the hood or, er bonnet ( I always get this Little House on the Prairie image in my head when I hear/say/type bonnet). With a bigger engine and engine compartment painted black, this will be more along the lines of what some prospective buyers want.

This hedge corner looks made for auction sale photographs. Rim paint looks a tiny bit blue-ish. Very tidy car.

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October 11, 2015

Market 516: Spider Veloce 05642 rough racer project

Giulietta Spider Veloce 750F 1495*05642. Available now from BHCC and listed on eBay. For a minute I thought it was this car, but no. Is $19,000 as I type. Worth probably $100,000 all correct and redone. I looked it up in the Veloce list and sure enough, this vin started life as a Veloce. Ad claims it’s matching numbers, but the engine looks more 101 than 750. It’s possible, but, well, it’s a lot of work to get a 101 1300 head to work on a 750 block.

Vroom, it certainly looks to have been built for speed. Headlight fillers appear to be cut down hub caps. Bumper mount holes were brazed over. Good color combo.

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October 5, 2015

Market 323: Black Plate Sprint project 10105*21083

Update October 5 2015: Incase you spent the last 4 years wishing you had bought this car – well, you get another chance. It’s back on eBay. Looks to have been improved a bit, but still has a ways to go.

Paint is looking pretty good these days. Grill is still from an early 750B or Spider. Good luck adding a front bumper if that’s something you would care about.

Update September 5 2011: Wow, $25,800 is pretty serious for this car. Ummm, maybe I should stop driving mine every day? Nah.

Giulietta Sprint 10105 1493*21083. This car is on eBay right now out of Temecula in southern California. Car wears its original California black plate but none of the originality usually associate with a black plate car. A lot of difficult to source trim is missing, engine is incorrect, interior is mostly wrong components with incorrect finish among other things. It runs and drives (yay) but will require a lot to be original. Would make a great beginning for a CSRG or other vintage racing group car. Looks nice though.

Don’t get me wrong, it is a nice looking example. Sprints are good cars, this example would bring a smile to your face every time you drove it. I don’t mind the lack of badges, bumpers or hubcaps, but the trim that runs along the top of the rockers is necessary to the shape.

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October 3, 2015

Market 513: 1956 Sprint 02586 in Spain

Giulietta 750B 1493*02586, 1315*02411. Update October 3 2015: You all can thank Marco of SquadraAlfaRomeoMadeira fame for getting more pictures and info on this car. The condition of this car is just right for my taste in cars, having a light patina, but being very presentable. Marco didn’t get a price for me. I have to wonder how many early Sprints are surviving at this point since there are half a dozen or more on the market right now. Are there any others on the market I missed?

October 1 2015: More of an SOS than anything. Any of you kind readers who is fluent in Spain Spanish care to inquire about this car for me? Maybe get the vin and engine numbers, a picture or two more? They have a regular website but of course this car is not on it. Thanks!

Bertone red at this point is a pretty deep and kind of old-world looking compared to Pininfarina red with its hint of orange. Small headlights really change the character of the front.

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October 3, 2015

Market 507: 1957 Spider Veloce 750F*01970 at Fantasy Junction

Update October 2 2015: I took the day off work to do some really fun stuff like go to a Dr. appointment and get my daily VW oil changed and smogged, and I was rolling by FJ and thought – hey, why not, and stopped in. I gotta say, this car is REALLY nice in person. Spencer told me it looks like it’s probably sold, but like Indiana Jones, in the opening of Raiders of the Lost Ark, you could probably swoop in and grab your hat before the door gets all the way down. Commendable restoration for sure.

If you licked it, it might taste like cherry or watermelon jolly rancher candy.

Giulietta Spider Veloce 750F 1495*01970, 1315*32969. This car is available from Fantasy Junction in Emeryville Ca for $145,000. I get asked most often if I know of any 1957 Spider Veloce’s for sale – well, here is one! Car looks very well restored, though I’m sure there is one or two of you right now seething at some incorrect minutiae. The engine number is not in the correct range (1315*30267 – 30761) for this year car, but as I commented* on my “What year…” post (see below), Veloce engines blew up and were replaced. This old post has a discussion of what it may mean. The restorer did us a favor and stamped a new build plate with the number for the engine in the car – that won’t cause any confusion in 50 years.

Looking good – has that wet lollipop sheen that somehow triggers heightened desire. I have worked on a lot of these cars, I can tell you it is an astonishing amount of work to get to this point from a bare shell in need of rust repair (not saying this needed rust repair – just that its a ton of work to get a car together from a shell to yum).

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October 2, 2015

Market 514: Sprint 750B 00356 in Indonesia

Giulietta Sprint 750B 1493*00356. Listed on Anamera out of Indonesia. I thought I saw this car out of US east coast on eBay at one point. Maybe the eBay seller was really in Indonesia? It’s early and it’s rough, but it is not hopeless…

If it was local I’d go have a look for sure. Looks to have been well used, but left too long in the rain. Should have the short windshield?

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October 1, 2015

Market 512: Minty early Sprint 750B 00977 in Italy

Giulietta 750B 1493*00977, 1315*01023, Body 65970. Yesterday I was really excited about Sprint 00656, today I am, if possible, more excited about Sprint 00977 available form the same seller. I’m more of a green guy than a red guy, and this car just looks right to me. I realize it probably has some originality deficiencies that someone with more authority than me will point out, but thats okay, I’d take it just as it is. I have seen 3 sub-1000 Sprints come on the market in the last few weeks, must be a virus that’s going around.

Anyone near enough to go verify the body number and give us a test drive or in-person review?

That is a great car in a great color. I wonder how original it was before the restoration? Looks to have rolled lip rims still. Even has the neat little turn signal lights and jack point covers.

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September 30, 2015

Market 511: Sprint 750B 00656 in Italy

Giulietta Sprint 750B 1493*00656, 1315*00648, Body 65650. Available now out of Italy from Aquarama boats and cars. Their site is under construction, I found it on Anamera. This is one of the neatest (in my opinion) cars I’ve had the pleasure to write about in a long time. If circumstances were different I’d be emailing Italy all excited, ready to hop on a plane. Early Sprints seldom come up for sale, and when they do, they tend to be in a pretty rough state. This car looks ready to go.

I have only seen a handful of Giuliettas on offer over the years that included period pictures. Super cool! Sill trim below the door is missing. Continue reading “Market 511: Sprint 750B 00656 in Italy”

September 30, 2015

Market 431: Sprint 750B 06395 -much assembly required

Update October 1 2015: Available now from Joop Stolze.

Giulietta Sprint 750B 493*06395, 1315*05812 & 00112*15344. This car appears to be offered by ReOriginal’s on eBay out of Livingston TX. Car is very much where the project I am currently working on is -lots to do! Paint is 10 years old but shines, interior work looks pretty good and it comes with an extra engine. No mention is made whether all the trim etc comes with the car. This is a rare car in that it’s one of the last 750B Normale’s -the last 200 750 ‘eyebrow’ grill Sprints were Veloce’s.

But do the original parts include bumper, ‘eyebrow’ grills, headlights with rings, hood center strip and front center grill? Looks pretty nice here. You can buy those bumper bracket trim bits new from several vendors.

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