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Market 401: Sprint 750B 05731 -Very nice!!

Giulietta Sprint 750B 1493*05731, 1315*05212, Bertone body 655119.  There has been keen interest on my site without me writing about this if click thru’s from a comment to the ad are any indication!  Several correspondents have reported it’s availability and finally, here I am getting a post about it up. The car is nicely finished, with only a few incorrect details that can easily be rectified.  I like a Sprint in silver with red interior -looks just like a car I have pictures of from a guy in Sacramento circa 1990.

Looks phenomenal from this angle, with nice even paint, over a tight fitting body and precisely fitted trim.  These pictures are very artful, but not great for assaying the quality of the specimen.

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Market 399: Spider Veloce 750F 04164 project in Germany

Update 4/6/12: Not sure being in Germany helped this car much, but someone bought it and an expensive process is probably being planned right now.

Giulietta Spider Veloce 750F 1495*04164.  This car is on eBay out of Germany right now.  It is rusty, incomplete, modified -basically right on the verge of viability -but it is a Veloce and does come with a lot of parts.

I think what happens is someone very enthusiastically tears a car apart -starts doing work, bills get bigger than expected, parts get misplaced and the next thing the car knows it’s covered in surface rust on eBay with a trunk full of parts.  Note wheel arch in the rear has been modified -might be a bondo ramp -might be a beautiful sheet-metal sculpture.

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Market 397: julieta sprint velocy

Giulietta Sprint Veloce (?). I guess the title says it all. This car is available through Kajiji out of British Columbia for offers in the neighborhood of $30,000. The title makes me wonder about the owners involvement with the car. Still, a Sprint Veloce with a decent recent repaint and some new chrome is pretty interesting if the drive train is original.

I guess this answers the question of what you do with the extra little bit of red paint in the gun are answered. The tail pipe?  Paint that shit red.  The wheels?  Them too!  Big question is… is this a garage sale or what?

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Market 396: 1954 Sprint in Bulgaria

Giulietta Sprint 750B. Henrik sent me a link to this car a couple of days ago.  Car is in Bulgaria and exhibits all the usual characteristics of an older car that’s been kept on the road through a combination of the clever application of incorrect parts as needed, and changes made to suit the tastes of the owner -a lot like the cars that come out of Mexico or South America.  No vin number is stated, but if it’s a 1954, it must be between 1493.00011 and 00023 according to Fusi, or ‘somewhere in that neighborhood’ if other known chassis numbers from this era are any indication.  If anyone knows the chassis number, let me know!

Body looks pretty good.  Has the small headlights .  Is that a ‘short’ windshield?    Wheels look like Fiat or some eastern block equivalent.  Wipers look modern.

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Market 395: Spider 750D 05500 project in the Southwest

Giulietta Spider 750D 1495*05500.  This car was offered on the AlfaBB out of New Mexico for offers.  Sellers claims he rescued it from an imminent trip to the crushers.  Looks like a challenging but doable project or great parts car.  If you’re interested call Bruce: 915-892-3619.

Looks like it was someones parts car already.  Wheel seen here is a Borrani -a scarce part.  Door fits well, some rust in the rocker.  I’ve seen worse.

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Market 394: Touring Spider 2600 192753 Champagne and red leather

2600 Spider Touring 10601*192753, 00106*065980.  This car is available now from the good folks at Fantasy Junction.  Color combo is an inspirational Champagne gold with red leather, and it looks amazing.  These big Touring Spiders have been popular with the high-dollar crowd for a while and represent an interesting slice of motoring.  Where a Giulietta is all nimble-ness, rev and simplicity -a motorized womb for the born to race, these are quite the opposite -fast but not quick, ponderous yet capable and as complex as a – well, I don’t actually have a good comparison, as complex as a Flaminia?  Too specific, as a Cold War era Soviet satelite?  Likely to get me watched by the anti-authorities.  How about ‘as complex as a Giulietta is simple’.  Sure.

Looks like a 1600 Giulia Spider with some accoutrements and, er, well, then it hits you –like a Giulia Spider that has a tooth for Bon-Bon’s.  Dig the built in driving lights.

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Market 393: 2600 Sprint 825680

Update 3/6/12: This car sold for $23,585 after 36 bids.  Probably a sightly disappointing outcome for the seller, but if they needed to sell it, it’s sold.

2600 Sprint Coupe 10602*825680, 00601*07668.  I’ve been mulling it over, and have decided to add the odd non-Giulietta to the Market when I see something that interests me, like 2000/2600’s, Montreal’s, Junior Z’s, 1900’s and the like.  This 2600 Sprint is on eBay right now out of Texas. Condition is superb (to my eyes), pretty much where I’d end up if I took the restored with acceptable patina route as far as possible.  I had a 2600 Sprint for a while -commuted in it for a few months 135 miles each way, was a great ride, and I’ve regretted selling it (along with about 20 other Alfa’s).  Owner would like to see close to $40,000.  I think they will be disappointed, but not too badly.  The pictures are good, but WAY too small.  Jose -if you want $40K for a car -spring for some decent pictures please!

The 2600 Sprint is a good looking car.  I think when you look at usability and comparables (Maserati’s mostly), you find these to be under-priced and very reliable.  Sure,they made a lot, but they have been complex their whole lives and good examples are few and far between.  I paid a pittance for mine and drove it home (on 4).  This car looks to have been someones pride and joy.  Very very clean and well presented.

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Market 392: 101 Spider 10238 -second worst pictures ever

Update 4/6/12: I don’t know if I’ve seen another car get 113 bids. That’s a lot of bids. Decent sale price.

Giulietta Spider 10103 1495*10238.  This car is on eBay right now out of Cripple Creek Colorado.  Pictures, which were marginal at best to start with, have been doctored so that it looks like the car was flying in space.  Why do this?  Maybe they were taken at a porn convention and nothing in the background was appropriate.  Who knows.  Sellers describes it as an abnormale, but really, it’s just a 1400 kitted original engine, not the 1750 or 2 liter usually associated with the term.  Despite the sellers best efforts to sabotage their auction with bad pictures and the abnormale tag, the car itself looks decent.

If Max Headroom had a Giulietta Spider on his show.  Tough to draw any conclusions from this.  It’s red, all red, has Boranni’s, the rear view mirror is correct -is missing a turn signal light, which is said to be included in the description.

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Market 391: Spider 00345 -sad parts car

Update 4/6/12: $1000 spent. What now?

Giulietta Spider 750D 1495*00345.  This hulk that was once a very desirable early Spider is on eBay right now out of Rogersville Missouri.  Considering 750D 00808 sold for something, and was not much of a parts car, maybe this will find a home too -speculation against future astronomical prices if nothing else.  Biggest barrier is local pick-up in the middle of absolute nowhere requiring a flatbed and come-alongs.  “Bring your trailer and wench!” the seller says -Haig caught this humor I missed.  Winch I think they mean…

Who knows how or why -we can all guess though.  I bet someone here would pay good money for that early hood prop seen standing at attention from out of the middle of the wreck.

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Market 389: Sprint 10105 21145 -apart and rust free Giuliettas.com exclusive

Update 2/24/12:  This car has been sold.  Buyer is on the west coast and it seems like a good fit -the right car/the right buyer -and I get to help!

Giulietta Sprint 10105*21145.  This car is available now out of Northern California from a local Alfa enthusiast who was preparing it for CSRG racing.  It is a California black plate car, tracing history and ownership through the years between Southern and Northern California.  The condition of the body speaks for itself in the pictures below -no rust (well, there is a little light surface rust -but nothing needing new metal IMHO) and very straight panels with a coat of black paint applied as long as 10 years ago.  Someone with space and some skills of assembly could get this car together into driver form in their spare time in a year or less, with a little persistence.  Why is he selling?  He bought a nearly finished GT Junior race car.

Contact me at sprints@giuliettas.com and I’ll put you in touch with the seller.

The body looks really good -especially if you like a black Giulietta.  Black is very popular on Spiders, but you don’t see too many black Sprints.  Would look great with a red/gray interior.  Hood and door fit looks right on this side.  I believe some suspension work has been done on the front end of the car.

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