Giulietta & Giulia Market – Page 5

September 17, 2015

Market 504: Spider 392429 The Walking Dead

Giulia Spider 10123*392429, 00112*16057. Just because it can be done, doesn’t mean it should. This car sold for $8000 on eBay recently, very very very likely for its parts. Look at it. Under the red rattle can is, well, about 40% of a Spider. The closer to the ground you get, the less there is until you reach the thin film of rust scale that inevitably forms under it whenever left in one place for an extended period. There are places where you could take a 1 foot by 1 foot sample of where you think a Spider ought to be, and not get any metal at all -good thing you are a human and can see that the missing piece is the missing piece of a car.

It looks not too bad from this angle, but like that scene in a horror show/movie, you haven’t yet realized you are seeing the dead, because from this angle it just looks like an attractive woman. The dead with great door to body panel gaps.

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September 16, 2015

Market 503: 10103 370029 first of the last 1300 Spiders

Giulietta Spider 10103 370029. This Spider, one of the first examples from the last series of 1300’s is available on eBay now out of Southern California. Buy it Now price is $75,000, somewhat high for this particular series -despite its nice fit and finish. (For comparison, Fantasy Junction has a SWB 750F Veloce for $95,000).

Very nice car in a domain to make most car guys jealous. Everything fits together well enough that I am going to guess this is a car that has not seen major work.

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September 8, 2015

Market 400 (!!): Sprint Veloce 750E 08765

Update September 7 2015: This car is available again on eBay out of Brunswick Georgia, maybe the same seller as last time? Still needs a lot of work. I don’t remember what the last asking price was., but now it’s $35,000.

Update March 9 2012: I received some less than encouraging pictures of the underside of the car from someone who knew it -it’s got some structural rust that will be difficult to fix. Check it out.

This is thick, difficult to replace metal. Will be fun for who ever gets to repair it -even more so for the check writer!

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September 7, 2015

Market 388: SS 00242 in New Jersey

Update September 15 2015: Reserve not met at $65,200.

Apparently SS values have gone up $6000 since this car was last listed. I think I would have been tempted to sell.

Update September 7 2015: This car has reappeared, this time on eBay being sold out of Florham Park New Jersey.

I was just last night talking to a friend and SS owner about the value prospects for the SS these days across the project to perfect spectrum. He opined that they had actually gone down a bit in the last few years by his reckoning. Not some huge slide or anything, just market forces balancing restoration quality of cars bought and improved to make a quick buck, that seem to come back on the market repeatedly, driving values down a bit as a result; versus genuine ‘restored for the love of the thing’ cars that not only look good but are complete, correct and actually a pleasure to drive. Projects aren’t seeing the frenzy of 2 years ago, while the number of prospective owners out there is probably a bit stagnant and not as deep pocketed as the few high priced auction examples would have you think. I’m sure there are lots of Alfisti would happily add an SS to their stable, the question is, at what price? And then there is the almost absurdly high survivorship of SSs -probably above 20% tracked on this humble site alone.

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August 20, 2015

Market 416: Spider 10103 09100 project

Update 8/19/2015: This car is back on the market after having some work done. The body is better than it probably bought to be considering the snowy woodpile it spent several years associating with. What is a restored LWB Normal of this vintage worth these days? $50K? $60K? $20K? I don’t really know -haven’t been paying enough attention, but this doesn’t seem like a bad deal at $12,500, but you probably need to be near by and fancy a challenging project. Perhaps a garage endeavor to work on in your retirement? Be aware, last I checked, there were not too many places willing to take on metal replacement.

Update 7/1/12: This car sold for $10,201. The saga continues!

Giulietta Spider 10103 1495*09100. Projects are in fashion, and this rough around the edges interim car is riding the wave on eBay right now. It’s not too bad, not too good, just your usual needs everything project. If you jump now it could be yours -current bidding is a paltry $7350. Summer is upon us!

Busted in the nose, but trim unharmed, with lots of weird corrosion. Looks neither good nor bad -just a but rough. There’s a bit of corrosion in the rocker visible here.

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August 19, 2015

Market 501: SS 381151 at Fantasy Junction “POA”

Giulia Sprint Speciale 10121*381151, 00121*01052. Fantasy Junction, a respectable local to me seller of high end sports cars has this SS listed in their inventory, price: POA. I don’t think I’ve ever seen them use this pricing convention – maybe it has something to do with last weekends rigmarole in Monterey and they didn’t want to be caught out if pricing moved in leaps due to an auction result. I didn’t make it to Monterey – opting rather to hang out with my dad. Any big Giulietta sales go down?

That is a great color on an SS. So tempted to make an unflattering comment about Toyota dark metallic gray – better let it go though. This car sits well, everything is where it belongs, and I am excited to go check it out in person – maybe they will let me test drive – who knows. Anyone have POA I can borrow?

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August 18, 2015

Market 148: Cobra-ized early 750 Spider

Update 8/18/2015: As yet finding it difficult to find a human whose tastes align with its character, this Giulietta Spider continues to float from mark-up to mark-up (I would have thought mark-down to mark-down -but who am I to speculate). Buy it now on eBay for $37,900 and be eschewed by Alfa owners, Cobra owners and those who aren’t comfortable in the presence of this much yellow. I mentioned in the last update that the clock was ticking toward a time when it would be an attractive value proposition to take this car back towards stock. That clock is still ticking.

How hard could it be to lose the black?

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November 11, 2014

Market 500: Late Sprint Veloce project E159104

Giulietta Sprint 10106 ARE159104, 1315*42314 (not matching, from a 750D Spider). This car is on eBay right now from the same seller as the two Spider projects concurrently listed out of Connecticut. Matching number 00106 engine is missing, and it needs a lot of help, but these late Sprint Veloces seldom show up in any form for sale. I know they guy who bought this on Craigslist about 10 years ago out of the Mojave desert area – assuming this is the only Sprint Veloce in this paint scheme of course. As usual, it’s a Sprint project and I find myself tempted. Not the best group of pictures I’ve had to work with.

Not the only metallic purple Sprint I’ve seen, but yes, the only one with white Vikings style swooshes. Looks like a steering column switch gear sticking out on the right, and a control arm part on the left. You could live with these grills. I’d be kind of tempted to get it going and drive it with this livery for a while. Continue reading “Market 500: Late Sprint Veloce project E159104”

November 7, 2014

Market 499: Spider 750D 1146: complete and 80% there

Giulietta Spider 750D 1495*01146, 1315*41158. Just ended today on eBay with 14 bids, the highest of which was $4051. It’s always sad to behold a car that is just plain beyond reasonable help. Judging by the level of completeness, it was probably parked with a leaky valve stem in 1969, and the battery drained before it could be fixed, then winter set in and you know the rest. A 1956 model year Giulietta seems to carry slightly more ‘early model’ cache than a 1957, so perhaps someone with a donor body, or connection to inexpensive foreign skilled labor will decide this is worth having a go at. After all, this car restored to the standards a couple guys around the country can achieve is probably an $80,000 + car. Sorry for the order of the pictures, I’m still working out how the bulk media uploader works on my CMS.

Rust may never sleep, but it does move at different paces in different places. If this was on the north coast of Kauai all you would find are the headlight glasses, tires and anything else plastic, rubber or glass surrounding an oxide welded barely recognizable lump of used-to-be engine. Continue reading “Market 499: Spider 750D 1146: complete and 80% there”

November 6, 2014

Market 498: Late 1300 Spider project 171160

Giulietta Spider 10103 171160. This car is available from the same seller as the car featured in Market 497, on eBay out of Connecticut. They made about 500 1300 Spiders after this one in 1961, putting it near the end of 1300 production – not much of a distinction I suppose. Engine block is blank, indicating a factory short block replacement – probably under warranty if the stories the oldtimers tell are true.

You can kind of picture the downhill slide – minor fender-bender (or nose in this case) becomes multi-decades long neglect, complete with parts car status at some point. Interesting light configuration. One is fog, the other spot if the PO had any sense. Continue reading “Market 498: Late 1300 Spider project 171160”