Author: hamilton.mm

Update September 29 2015:  As Tim D pointed out, not a Veloce.  Gotta start using my reference materials more.

Giulietta Spider 10103*170259.  This car is due to be auctioned at Hilton Head Island on October 31st by Auctions America RM.  Estimate is $75,000 – $85,000 which seems reasonable.  Not a heck of a lot of information about the car among the 3 paragraphs of description, and the pictures are internet circa 2003 quality / size.  I guess you gotta go stick your nose in and under it to see if it’s as nice as it seems.  Source and pictures are from Anamera.

Looks pretty good from 30 feet.  Anyone know this car?  Door shut lines are almost lost in the red.  Almost.

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Giulietta SS 10120*00593.  This SS is available now from Mirbach, outside of Munich.  It was recently purchased from longtime owners in the Rome area.  It has a nicely preserved feel that is refreshing in an SS these days.  Yours for 139,000 Euro.  Can anyone in Germany give them a call and confirm the VIN, and maybe even get the engine number?

I don’t think many people realize how good you can make a car look with some careful touch-up and serious polishing.  It is sort of interesting that someone would choose to copyright a picture that is clearly ephemeral in nature, and no one in a million years will ever make a penny from.  

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Giulia Sprint Speciale 10121*381303.  This clean, good looking Giulia SS is being auctioned by Coys in Germany on September 26 2015.  Advertisement I saw is on Hemmings.com for Coys Frankfurt motorshow.  This is a new car to my register, I’ll have to count and see where we are with the survivor count.

Looks more bluette than bosphor to me.   Both good colors.  Italy to USA to Japan to Switzerland and now for sale in Germany.

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There is something irresistible about a top ten list.  Whether its hamburgers, airlines, supermodels or carnivorous plants, it’s always fun to critique and/or learn something new.  After much consideration, here are my top ten production Giuliettas.  I’ll do a non-production variation later with prototypes, re-bodies and such.  What are your top ten?

1.  Giulietta Sprint Zagato Coda Tronca.  Beautiful, elegant, purposeful and rare.  Alfa and Zagato together at the inception of what would become the TZ series.    With what 17 (or is it 35) ?? built, it’s among the lowest number production Giulietta variant.  They are expensive, but seem like they ought to be more expensive than they are.

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I started a campaign at Patreon to allow readers to support the site if they chose.  It’s basically Kickstarter in a monthly pledge form -kind of like my local NPR station is doing right now.

I’ve been enjoying writing lately and I think having an awareness of the value readers put on what I do would be helpful to keep me focused (Carrot) and that failing, motivated by a sense of obligation (stick).

Any money pledged not spent on site maintenance is going to go in my “hire a developer” fund to make the $8000 – $10000 worth of changes I am hoping to make sometime by the end of 2016.  What kind of changes you ask?  Well, The register is an amazing resource on one hand, and a disaster to use on the other.  The redesign will make it much easier to use, and give readers a chance to take over adding information about their cars if they want.  Also on the redesign menu will be a files section where I put scans of manuals, brochures etc for use by readers.  There is a lot more, but it’s hard to communicate without a chalk board.

If Patreon seems a little weird, you can still just make a donation via the button on the “Support Giuliettas” page up there below that picture of my car I need to replace.

Thanks!

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