Giulietta Sprint 750E 1493*04239, 1315*30449. This car is listed on Antea Cars out of Japan. I haven’t had the opportunity to write about very many lightweights, but they all seem to be this color so far. Car is in great shape -only really lacking in the originality dept, and only minorly, but nothing a few bucks wouldn’t cure. It is described as having been restored in Japan, which is probably a good thing. Enthusiastic, detail oriented folks if the few genuine articles I’ve met were a representative sample. I wonder if this car did anything race-wise back in the day…
Did these have little market lights? I like this color, but is it lighter in pictures than in person? In the Coup Des Alps footage it’s a little darker looking Body is in very nice shape.
Market 375: Sprint shell 750B 07103
Giulietta Sprint 750B 1493.07103. This car is on Craigslist out of Pittsburgh PA. It’s rough -really rough, and incomplete, and rusty. Was raced SCCA production G. This will probably be the cheapest Sprint of 2012…
Sprints always look optimistic to me, something about the shape of the grill openings or shape of the headlight area. Does it come with doors?
Market 374: Giulietta SS racer in Italy
Giulietta Sprint Speciale 10120, 00120. This unknown SS is for sale out of Italy for €35,000. It has the road-racer treatment that seems to get applied to cars that need restoration work to gloss over their short-comings -though this example looks to have been used on the track some. These are valuable enough that cars like this one will enter an original-ification program before long.
Looks decent. Paint on the hood barely matches that on the rest of the car. Picture it without the decals or ‘cage and it could be a decent event car. Sorry -I’m not a fan of a bunch of stickers all over a car like this.
Market 371: project Spider 10103 10284
Update 1/28/12: 13 bids resulting in a sale price of $4550 is about right for an incomplete, rusty Spider. I wonder how many people are hoarding these kinds of cars, waiting for the day when they are all expensive -if it ever comes?
Interesting parts: set of 5 early production Fergat wheels 1365.52.810
Giulietta part number 1365.52.810 -Disc wheel – Fergat 4 1/4 J x 15 CZ. This full set of early ‘rolled lip’ Fergats is on eBay right now. Asking price is $1500, steep seeming, but when rarity and condition are weighed, probably a pretty good deal -especially if you need a set for your 1956 Sprint! The parts book makes no mention of an early/late style for these, so a cut off point for production is tough to pin down. Anyone have a car with these and care to share a vin? Parts book says each car uses a quantity 2 -humorous typo.
Imagine these on your car! Fresh wheels do a lot for the impression a car makes on you. BMW Polaris silver?
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Strange Giulia Super ‘Torpedo’ for sale
I got a bunch of links from Maurizo that included one to this car for sale. As you can see, it’s an open top/no doors stretched Giulia Super sedan in a style that most people in know would call ‘like a Fiat Jolly’, but sans wicker. On Capri, in 2003, I saw a mid-60’s Fiat 1500 station wagon done up this way. This sort of car was commissioned to give slow, fair weather (obviously) guided tours and serve as a hyper local taxi or errand running vehicle in resort areas. I could easily imagine this being some manufacturing executives facilities touring car -in Arese perhaps… oh, and it’s €75,000!
If you put your hand on the screen to obscure everything from the windshield back, it just looks like a very nice Super. I like how the arm rests also keep the passing-out drunk from slipping out of the car. Â
Market 373: Spider 10123 -super clean
Update 1/23/12: Alex contacted the seller and the stats are: Giulia Spider 1600 AR10123*378512, 00112*33388. Thanks Alex!
Giulia Spider 1600 10123. This car is available on Hemmings out of South Carolina for $39,500. Seller is listing it for a late friend – I presume for the estate. Condition looks really good, with some non-original touches that don’t really detract unless you’re a serious purist.
I like how clean the lines are in white -and when the rest is all blacks and silvers, it lends an almost clinical beauty. Hood and door fit well. Chromed wheels may have been a dealer add-on.
Market 372: SS 00216 in Italy
Update later the same day: This car was also Market 208, before I had the vin #. Asking price has increased a bit since April of 2010.
Giulietta Sprint Speciale 10120*00216, 00120*0????. Maurizo sent me an email to notify me that this car is on Autoscout. Car looks to be a nice mix of preserved and restored, with a highly detailed engine compartment. Asking price is 65,000 Euro’s or about $83,800.
With this background, it almost looks like it’s in prison. All the usual praise applies here, the trim, fit etc all look right. Rear end suspension is lower than usual.
Market 370: ‘Completely concours’ Sprint 158658
Giulietta Sprint 10102 158658. This car is available now from Hexagon out of London England for 49,950 Pounds, about $76,700 at the time of writing. It is described as completely concours, having received an ‘astonishing’ nut and bolt restoration. It looks very very good in the pictures but as with most cars being held to this kind of standard, it has some loose ends.
Paint looks phenomenal, as does the trim. No rocker trim? Front wheel is a Borrani, the rest are Fergat’s. Hood and door fit is amazing. Tires are a little ‘modern’ for a Giulietta -but that’s a matter of taste.
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Market 369: Spider 750D 02726 at Gooding
Update 1/22/12: Car sold for $60,500 including buyers premium. Anyone catch the sale price of the red one?
Original post 1/13/12: Giulietta Spider 750D 1495*02627. This car will be auctioned in Arizona later this month by Gooding & Co along side the dusty barn-find of Market 367. Car is described as, and appears to be largely original, having never been apart and repainted once, over 20 years ago in the original color. 750D Spiders are hot right now and Gooding’s has been successful auctioning Giulietta’s so I expect this car to do well.
This is a flattering angle for the Spider, though the white paint makes the contours disappear. Trim, paint and everything else looks just right.