750 and 101 series cars 1954 – 1965
Update December 15, 2016: Â Someone has been busy! Â This car has surfaced five and a half years later at Fantasy Junction with a comprehensive restoration and a $79,500 asking price. Â It’s satisfying when you see a car come full circle. Â Anyone know who did the restoration? Â Some things aren’t exactly to factory original – but a Veloce spec 1400cc engine build is a nice thing to have.
Handsome devil!
Continue reading “Market 304: 750 Spider project with hardtop”
Update October 5 2015:Â Incase you spent the last 4 years wishing you had bought this car – well, you get another chance. Â It’s back on eBay. Â Looks to have been improved a bit, but still has a ways to go.
Paint is looking pretty good these days. Â Grill is still from an early 750B or Spider. Â 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.
Continue reading “Market 323: Black Plate Sprint project 10105*21083”
Update 2/5/14:Â This is the car I referred to in the write up of the super rusted out Sprint a few days ago. Â Get that and this and you would have the basis for a doable project.
Update 2/1/12: Body appears to have sold for $3800 -this didn’t include much of anything to build the car out. Continue reading “Market 322: Giulietta Sprint -some assembly required”
Giulietta Sprint 10105 1493*21131. Â This car was recently sold through Fantasy Junction. Â Asking price was about $56,000. Â I believe this is a car that was sold through Cars Dawydiak a few years ago, but I’ve seen a lot of these cars, so I may be mistaken. Â Even though it has been sold, I thought I would do a quick write up since it’s a nice but non-original normale that has been hot-rodded and that sold for more than a few recently sold, nearly perfect restored 101 Normale’s I’ve seen. An interesting data point for those that care.
Nicely painted, trim fits well, lowered, ready for action. Continue reading “Market 312: Nicely modified 10105 Sprint at FJ -Sold!”
Update 4/20/13:Â Hard to argue with the same result twice.
Update 3/31/13: This car has turned up on eBay again.  Although it has been 14 months since it was listed, the same pictures are being used.  I don’t think the market for a Spider like this has moved up much, so I suspect a similar result to the last time.  I like the last line of the ebay description: “Look close, see the reserve? See the buy it now? I didn’t think so, there is NOT a buy it now, and the reserve is private. That’s how I thought it worked. I am an honest guy, selling an honest car, running this AUCTION honestly. I don’t want to play any games. Thank you.” I’m not sure how effective coming across as prickly is as a first impression, but then the notion of an ‘online persona’ is generally accepted.
Update 1/9/12: $15,101 is the sale price after 5 bids. That’s pretty solid money.
Giulietta Spider 10104*09537. This Spider is on eBay out of New York with a starting bid of $8,000. Condition is pretty reasonable as the start of a light ‘run it as is’ type project. Seller says it doesn’t run currently and has had some floor repairs. It comes with a hardtop that is one of the made in California FiberFab (??) type. I like the license plate!
It really doesn’t look bad. It could be the basis of a decent driver without much fuss. The engines can always be made to run, but will probably require a minor overhaul. I like them without the grill ‘eyebrows’..
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”
Update 7/22/12: Available now from Motor Classic and Competition Corp. Interesting that this car has failed to find a home with so much demand for SS’s right now.
Update 4/2/12: Guess who’s available again? This SS. It’s now on the East Coast now, listed on Hemmings, and with a new fun asking price of $129,500. Does this herald the arrival of market malaise? Are we approaching a correction? How many SS’s at greater than $100K can the market support? Survivor-ship is high for a limited production car -probably approaching 15% documented on this site alone. Costs more than this?
Update 9/13/11: Again. I wonder how much they’ve spent on eBay auctions?? My advise to the seller – a change of venue after a few months pass. Maybe Amelia Island. Ebay is alright for 3 year old ipods and disassembled Sprints but a seriously nice SS? Time to move up into the major leagues. But what do I know.
Update 9/1/11: “We have made deals on this car twice on eBay now, only to have the buyer renege on his contract due to financial issues without seeing the car in person. PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THE FINANCIAL ABILITY TO PURCHASE THE CAR before bidding, and especially before having us mail you sales documents and pull all of our advertising. If you are financing or running the car through a leasing company, make sure you are pre-approved. Each time this happens we lose other interested parties who ARE able to purchase the car. Thank you for your consideration.” That explains it. Rich guys drunk eBaying.
Update 8/26/11: As predicted, this car is on eBay again -this time with new improved pictures and lengthy description attached below. This is a great car, it’s just not going to go for Gooding money on eBay.
I know that bridge -about 15 minutes before you get to Big Sur when headed south on 1.
Continue reading “Market 315: Vent window Giulietta SS 10120 177061”
Update 7/16/12: This car has appeared for sale on eBay in Europe out of Southern California from a Zero feedback seller. Scam? Hmmm.
Update 3/17/11: 75 bids resulted in $62,750. It’s no joke, game on for SS values!
Update 3/14/11: Bidding has reached $40,000 and reserve is met with 2 days to go. The suspense begins!
Giulia SS 10121*381379. This car is on eBay right now out of Texas. Bidding is at just shy of $30,000 with 4 days left as I write. This car is truly in ‘how you used to find them’ condition and frankly may be as much as $80,000 away from being a top money car, but for a capable DIY restorer that restoration number could get down to $40,000. Why do I mention this? See yesterdays post, which the seller references in their write up, a Giulietta SS sold for $140,000 at the Amelia Island auction. This is a great place to start, but it still has to be reduced to nuts, bolts and bare metal and built back out to get in the league that car is in. Then it has to find a buyer… Or it could be let alone, touched up, enjoyed and entered in the preservation class some day.
Looks great from this distance, through the lens of a camera after being hosed down. Note dent above headlight. Antennae has to go to.
Update 6/21/12: Didn’t take long for the 50+% dealer tax to be added to this car. More pictures show it to be complete and needy. Here it is in Denver.
I definitely don’t like the look of knock-offs. Pretty straight car.
Original post 11/5/11: Giulietta Sprint Speciale 10120*00486, 00120*00949. Frank pointed me in the direction of this car listed on Hemmings. Condition is pretty good and it should make for a straight-forward restoration to ‘clean driver’ without going too far under water at the $40,000 asking price. For a full on restoration it will require just as much work as a car like the disassembled project I listed recently. Wheels are very rare (on a Giulietta) Borrani wires complete with a spare. I’m personally not a big fan of the wire wheel look, but many are.
Am I blue? Yes, but not the right shade. Looks pretty good as far as derelict SS’s goes.
Update 5/15/12: On the hammer this car sold for $195,804! The low end of the estimate, but, it’s easy to spend other peoples money… I’d have sweated every dime. Not a bad purchase price for a nearly unique car. Someday I’ll be in the running for cars like this -off to get a lotto ticket!
Update 4/21/12: Big money car needs a big money venue -so without further fooling around, this car is now being run through an RM auction in Monaco this May. Expected sale price $185,000 – $235,000. Not bad for what may well be one of the ‘best of breed’ SS’s. I sure want it! Stuart- thank you for alerting me to this auction.
Could be you! I like the gold tinted wheels. Stellar.
Continue reading “Market 314: Giulietta SS Lownose 10120 00061 in aluminum”