Category: Spider Normale’s

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Market 197: Bring a Trailer Exclusive Giulia 1600 Spider

Update 6/11/10: Is anyone surprised that this car had a hard time selling for $34,000, sold for a chunk less and now has turned up in Texas at DriveSource for $32,500?  I’m not.  I stand by my assertion that you have one (or if you are lucky two) chances to sell a car for a really good price and whether you wear the buying public out with multiple ebay auctions or stand by a slightly unrealistic price for a few months, you create a sense of undesireability or flaw -deserved or not, that makes potential buyers think something must be wrong with the car if it hasn’t sold.  DriverSource has put some effort into the car and it really looks great these days, and I can say -having seen this car in person on the Lap of Marin not long ago, that it is a nice car, so maybe this car will find a happy home soon.

This car has been polished to within an inch of its’ life.  Cool!  I still think the windshield wipers sit way too high on the glass. 

Original post 3/5/10: Giulia Spider 1600 10123*392337, 00112*15937.  As usual Bring a Trailer has the drop on a cool car and have brought it to market exclusive style, this time in the form of this very late Giulia Spider.  It’s located in the San Francisco Bay Area and looks to be a pretty nice example.  $34,000 must be spent to own it, -top of the private seller market,  which means it must be test driven and inspected in person -rather the opposite of a chore. 

Nice car in a nice setting.  These late Spiders are solid reliable and fun, so where better to drive it than among the vines.  Mirrors are a little more forward than usual. Continue reading “Market 197: Bring a Trailer Exclusive Giulia 1600 Spider”

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Market 223: 101 Spider Normale project

Update 6/15/10: $12,634.01, reserve not met was the outcome.  Has not been relisted so maybe the high bidder and seller are working something out.

Giulietta Spider 10104 1495*08359, 1315*011500. This neglected but otherwise solid Spider project is on eBay right now out of Illinois.  Car is said to be a long time Arizona car which bodes well for those worried about rust -Arizona is very dry.  If you’re looking for a DIY project this might just be the car for you.

How you want to find them: straight bodies, paint you could live with almost indefinitely, about complete and untouched for years (whitewalls provide evidence of this).

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Market 222: Spider prototype 750D 00007

Update 8/13/10: Sold and on its way to Milan.

Update 7/6/10: Spider did 2 tours of eBay with no takers.  A purchase like this requires some serious non-coincidental provenance corroboration so I’m not surprised it didn’t sell.  I think as I state at the end of the market review that this car needs to go through an auction that can authenticate it if the seller wants this kind of money.

Giulietta Spider 750D 1495*00007, 1315*40009. This Spider, one of the Pininfarina prototypes, is available now on eBay for $225,000.  I have no real side by side comparison to make any comment on the value of this car but would say that the asking is in line with what I would ask if I had it.

Why? I think the Bertone Spiders (00002 and 00004) are probably million+ dollar cars these days. Pininfarina Spider 00001 (or is it 00003?), now residing at the Alfa museum and 00005 (I think), in the hands of the collector who also has the Bertone Sprint convertible and SVZ ‘Goccia’, both having the wrap around windscreen and side-curtain style windows are probably $300,000 – a million.  Official numbering of the Spiders started in the mid-teens in Fusi and the cars between those mentioned above and 00016, the first production car, are likely similar to this car and close to the production models cars and hence not as valuable, maybe $100k to $500K depending on lots of stuff.  I seem to recall having seen two or three other pre-production  Spiders like this but can’t remember where.  Early race history usually adds value but I can’t say for sure if it does for a car like this.

As an aside, there is a chance that Ghia made a Giulietta Spider prototype.  Anyone know anything about this?

I guess what I am saying is that in my opinion, the more the prototypes diverge from the standard cars, the more they are worth and this car is fairly close to the production version.  Condition is the kind of ‘nice original driver’ I prefer.

Mythical beast: one of the Pininfarina prototypes.  ‘Points’ on the grill tusks are the only visual cue that you are seeing anything special here, beyond your usual 750D.

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Market 221: 750D roller

Update 6/5/10: $1276.51.  Not a bad buy considering it’s on suspension.

Giulietta Spider 750D 1495*03746. This partial car is on eBay right now out of Colebrook NH.  Seller says ‘pick up only’ which narrows the field considerably.  I bet this thing ends up on a truck.  Car is $152.50 at time of writing.

Looks like the usual yard art turns eBay auction turns project.  Presence of tires holding air and not being at odd angles to each other is good.  Originally gray?  Nose is only a little beat.

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Market 217: restored Spider 10103*09331

Update 5/18/10: Car as predicted ssold in the high twenties: $28,600 after 16 bids to be exact.  See, a well presented, no BS auction can result in a decent selling price.

Giulietta Spider 10103 1495*09331.  This car is on eBay right now out of Washington state.  The seller claims to have done extensive work in the early 2000’s and this is verified by what is seen in the pictures.  After less than a day the bidding has reached $10,127 with 4 bids.  There has been a pretty good group of Spiders the last month, jockeying for a ‘summer fun’ sale, but I think this might be one of the best of the group.

This is how they probably looked new.  No excuses chrome, good panel fit and just a sort of ‘wow’ factor.

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Market 174: Another Interim Spider project

Update 5/18/10:  You, yes you can own this car for the buy it now price of $38,000.  There are no new pictures so you have to take their word for it that the restoration is in fact a restoration and not a quick blow over.

Update 5/10/10:  Another run on eBay is underway and as I write this it has 4 bids for a high of $28,100 reserve not met.  Doesn’t add up to me as there is one crappy picture. upon which to base placing a bid.

Okay, maybe it’s not that crappy a picture, but where are the headlight rings, the grill eyebrows and the rest of the pictures.  Seller promises to have all new interior in it for the new owner.

Update 4/9/10: This car has resurfaced on eBay after the floors being replaced and the paint redone. I doubt they painted the dash or engine compartment, but hey, maybe they did. Opening bid is $25,000, reserve not met at that. What do you think?

I don’t envy the labor, just removing and replacing the windshield is an all day ordeal. I hope it ends up being worth it. I wonder if the engine compartment and dash will be red when the job is done.

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Market 216: Modified Spider ‘track car’

This Giulietta Spider based homebuilt roadster is available now on Craigslist out of Grand Blanc, Flint for $3900. If it’s got most of it’s parts that’s not a bad price.  If it’s not rusty it might be worth welding the correct nose and tail back on.

70’s Spider nose on a Giulietta?  Could be worse… somehow.  That rollbar/loop looks pretty thin. 

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Market 215: Tidy driver Early Spider 750D 01323

Update 5/7/10:  27 bidders resulted in a high of $14,600 and the car went deservedly unsold.  Too many Giulietta Spiders on the market or the imminent crash of the Euro?  I’d buy this tomorrow if I had $20K, drive and improve it the next two months and put it through RM or some such at the Monterey weekend this August.

Giulietta Spider 750D 1495*01323, 1315*41282.  This car is on eBay right now out of Chico California, a college town a little north of Sacramento.  There seems to be a higher than usual number of early Spiders moving around the market right now… must be all the ones that have been waiting for winter to pass.

I like the fogs, nice touch that they made use of the ‘tusk’ mounting holes.  Not much to say other than tidy and attractive!

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Market 211: Spider 750D in Florida

Update 4/26/10: $26,450 after 30 bids is a pretty good result for this car, but considering the originality I’d call it well bought. 

 Giulietta Spider 750D 1495*06116, 1315*44942. This car is on eBay right now out of Florida.   Bidding after a few hours has already reached $18,900 -not bad for an original looking car.  There are a lot of pictures on the Flickr set (the VIN is the link).

Looks like a good honest well cared for specimen.  Paint is tough to judge -it being white and all, but from everyone-elses perspective (you on the road) it looks good.

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