Category: fun stuff

JP in Belgium has this car for sale.  Contact him if you’re interested!

“Early 750D Spider shell, it is most certainly a ’56 model and one of the first 1000 made, given that it has a ribbed scuttle with the half moon recess for the back of the air filter can.

The car took a hit on the left front fender & left front wheel, hard enough to put a small kink into the lower chassis rail and to crunch the left front fender far enough to crease the left edge of the bonnet. The left headlight pod was also flattened. We presume the VIN was subsequently cut out and grafted into another car along with all the bits to keep the owner ‘rolling’ without troubling the authorities…..

Owner has a spare left front fender & nose from a donor car, enough to replace the damaged panels. The lower chassis rail can be straightened by a competent body man. The tricky part will be the missing VIN number, but the rest of the body shell is still in good condition,

Dry stored in a warehouse in Belgium. The early 750D Spider shell is looking for a new owner who is willing to tackle the project.  Images here.

Information: please contact      jpduhem@hotmail.com

Asking price: 4000 € ono ”

Update: I got a huge response to this and have been too busy to respond to all.  How does $360 shipped to continental US sound?  First to come is first served!

I was rooting around looking for some brake parts and came across a Veloce Marelli distributor complete with new points, rotor and cap that I had been saving for a rainy day (when it was raining a Veloce my way). Anyone out there looking for one? Drop me a line. All proceeds go to getting my Spider on the road. I’ll post a picture tomorrow…

Bushings feel decent.

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Update 2/1/14: I heard from a reader that they have seen this advert and a similar one before, and pursuing them got the same responses.  I would call this a very targeted scam.  If it’s too good to be true….

1/30/14: Jaan sent me a link to this Craigslist ad – I’ll be all over this if it wasn’t a bunch of timezones away!

I have been walking by it on the driveway for two months now.  I put a towel over the gauges to keep the from being yellowed by the sun.  I just haven’t had time to mess with it, so it can now be yours!  Runs and drives pretty good!  No rust!

Update 5/16/13:  I want to thank all of you who acted on this so quickly!  The Bike Barn has heard from several of you while I slept last night and it appears they are now thinking about me and my order again.  I’ll keep you all posted on what transpires.

I don’t know if any of you care, but this engine is just a few numbers off from a frame I have (CB72 13073) -which is how they tended to come from the factory -much like our Giuliettas.  Honda only made about 3000 of these 1961 CB72’s and they are among the most sought after early Hondas.

5/15/2013: All, I bought a rare early Honda motorcycle engine case CB72E 113024 from UK eBay seller ‘The Bike Barn LTD’ and have not received my part.  It’s been 5 months and I am not getting my emails returned anymore.  Unfortunately I bought directly rather than through eBay, and the time window which I can contest the charge through paypal has long since closed. I don’t really have any idea how to make a formal complaint to any UK authorities or anything, so I thought I’d make an appeal here.

Would any UK based reader be interested in giving them a call and seeing if they can get an idea what’s up?  Their phone number is: 01905 622122.  I’m not sure where in the UK they are…

Thanks.

I was taking my monthly cruise of the AlfaBB the other day and found a post by Uncle Rick praising the efforts of partscorrect.com to make gauge inserts for our Giuliettas.  I went to their website and found out that they were local to me and they were David, who I met a few years ago while out in my Sprint.  An email exchange ensued and now I sit with his complete gauge restoration kit on my work table.  It’s a pleasure to report that my high expectations have been greatly exceeded!  These gauge inserts are simply stunning!

On the product explanation/description sheet that came in the box with the parts is the message: “Parts made to be absolutely correct.  Not my interpretation of it… not different because it was easier… just plain not different!  Exact reproductions for enthusiasts!!!” 

The kit:  gauge inserts in a clear plastic that will not yellow in time, asymmetric o-rings that go between the chrome ring and glass, o-rings that go between the gauge body and recessed ring and/or dash (depending on whether it’s a Spider or Sprint), small o-rings that go under the drive mount screws and flat insulating rubber gaskets that go between the speedo or tach drive and gauge housing.

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Frequent readers will note that not much was posted to giuliettas.com from early September  through the present.  I have had a few gentle nudges in the form of emails basically asking: “Hey – are you still alive??” and a few donations which I take to be nudges of a different sort (big THANKYOU’s by the way – you know who you are).  Well, what’s going on then?  I turned 40 in mid-September, took a 2 week vacation in New Hampshire, Vermont and NYC, Rufus started daycare upon return ’cause mom went back to work, I moved my shop -which is currently about 50% done, and started a new venture with another start up.  Simply put – my mind and hands have been elsewhere, but now I am ready to get back to it.  What about my projects you ask?  Here’s the latest:

Giulietta Sprint -it’s wintering right now because it needs a full tune up, new tires and I drive it so much I wore out the Denso alternator.  I’m strongly leaning towards painting it in the spring…

A couple of Bay Area oldtimer scruffy Sprints…

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