Update: 11/27/13:Â This car is on eBay again. Â Someone with a sense of presentation has taken some decent pictures. Â Check it out. Â Still needs a lot. 
Original post: 8/30/2012: Giulietta Sprint 10105 1495*21160. This Sprint is on eBay right now out of Florida.  It has all the hallmarks of a stalled restoration that got pretty far down the wrong road and the owner, rather than spend more money turning around and getting back on track the owner has decided to cut their losses.  Wonder if it was a fix-it-up-and-sell-it restoration or someone trying to get a Sprint driver on the cheap-ish?  Oh, and the starting price is $24,999 – a few bucks on the high side IMHO.  Don’t get me wrong -these aren’t easy cars to put together -but really. 
Lets see… sombrero’s? Â No. Â Headlights? Â No -nice try though. Â Turn signal lights? Â Nope. Â Paint doesn’t look too bad. Continue reading “Market 440: Sprint 10105 21160 off the path and lost in the woods”
Market 312: Nicely modified 10105 Sprint at FJ -Sold!
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!”
Market 38: 1959 Giulietta Sprint Project 20107
Update 2/2/13: Â Bid to $18,100 with the reserve not met. Â I’m torn here. Â $18,100 is not a lot for a complete project car that is ready for a light skim, paint, trim/mechanical refresh and assembly -the body had to be done, but ball-parking it, you will be $10K into paint, $12K into the mechanicals and probably $20K refinishing and assembling trim/interior etc. Â That’s $60K for a ’59 Normale. Â I know a few guys who are deeper than that into theirs, but I don’t think I’ve seen one sell for that (have I?).
Update 1/21/13: Â Looking better without those widened wheel arches, this car is back on eBay after considerable work. Â Good car for someone who wants to just paint and put together a car.
Metal work looks great! Â Buyer gets to choose the palette and level of finish. Â It’s a lot of work.
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Market 454: Sprint 10105 20108 Florida barn find
Update 1/8/13: Â I have been told this car ended off eBay for $9200. Â Anyone here the intrepid new owner?
I guess they tried to cancel the auction and failed…
1/6/13: Giulietta Sprint 10105 1493*20108, 1315*010329. Â This car is on eBay right now out of Chiefland FL. with a current bid of $8000. Â I say barn find but it looks to be on the wrong side of the wall -out in the elements under a tarp next to a barn rather than in it. Â Condition is pretty good and I think a weekend spent detailing it would yield a nice enough car. Â The engine turns over so the next weekend you could probably make it run. Â I’d do the detailing first, because if it doesn’t run you may get discouraged and not clean it up at all.
Drivers side headlight needs some attention. Â Foglights are a neat addition. Hood fit is excellent. Â Missing windshield trim??
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Market 450: Giuliettas.com exclusive Sprint 20205 (was M49)
Update 1/16/13:Â Car has been sold via eBay for $12,500 almost immediately upon listing.
12/13/12: Giulietta Sprint 10102 1493*20205, 1315*010311. Â This car is available right now out of Florida from a long time Alfa owner/restorer. Â It is more solid than the usual Sprint project and complete but needs a full restoration to be nice or at least a mechanical freshening to be driven. Â If you’re looking for a matching numbers complete Sprint as a starting point for a project this may be the car for you! Â Asking price is “offers in the lower mid-teens”.
This car was Market 49 where it failed to sell for about $5500 back when you could get pretty good runner for about $20,000. Â Pretty good runners have moved on to start at about $35,000 and projects have gotten more expensive as a result, so I think $12 – 15K would not be a bad deal for this car. Â Car was originally delivered to a dealer in Italy – finding it’s way to the US in the 60’s.
Email me and I’ll put you in contact with the seller. Â sprints @ giuliettas.com
One could drive this car looking like this. Â Might cause some grumbling among the purists – but who cares. Â Marker lights are consistent with a European delivery car. Â Trim all looks pretty good.Â
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Market 445: Sprint 20753, nice but not original
Update 12/12/12: Â Listing ended -no bids. Â So it goes.
Giulietta Sprint 10105 1493*20753.  This car is on eBay right now out of Illinois from a 0 feedback seller who has 5 cars on offer -the other four being modern Italian exotica. This Sprint looks very nice, and will certainly satisfy someone looking for a sporty 1950’s Italian coupe, but the purists out there will give it some rough treatment – especially at nearly $40,000 asking. Â
Body and trim looks great. Â Grills appear to have had the ‘chip-cutter’ portions removed and these home-made horizontal bars added. Â Nice mirror.
Continue reading “Market 445: Sprint 20753, nice but not original”
Market 22: Mexico City Giulietta Sprint survivor
Update 7/1/12: 1 bid, reserve not met. No sale.
Update 6/25/12:Â This car has turned up on eBay after 4 years with the same pictures and from the same seller. Sprint values have come a long way in the last 4 years. I expect it will find a buyer this time.
Original post 6/20/08: Reserve not met! $12,099 was the ending price, $1 less than the black plate car out of Cottonwood. Seller added some new pictures of the car outdoors in daylight that show it is a pretty nice car. I think either of these cars was a pretty good deal and would be a great basis for putting together very nice original driver. I think both suffered from somewhat poor presentation and the fact that they both went through eBay at the same time. There can’t be that many guys (or gals) out there looking for Sprints, so any more than 2 or 3 a month in a given area is market saturation, and we’ve been seeing 5 or 6 a month since I started this blog. Last, I suspect both these sellers, encouraged by the strong sale prices mentioned earlier for project cars, put these on the market just to kind of see what they would do, without a real necessity to sell them.
Added pictures include this nose shot, always a pleasant sight. I wonder if a yellow curb has the same meaning in Mexico.
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Market 419: 1750 powered 101 Sprint 23176 at Coys
Update 5/19/12: Some of you may have noticed this car didn’t go through the auction. The seller contacted me to let me know he pulled it due to what he described as a lack of enthusiasm for the car and a desire to not give it away. It is available for 43,000 Euro’s (about $55,000) out of Munich Germany. Check out the pictures linked to by the vin number below. It’s a great looking car. If you’d like to contact the owner drop me a line at sprints @ giuliettas.com
Giulietta Sprint 10102 1493*23176. This car is being auctioned by Coys on May 12th in Monaco. Car looks amazing and, though not entirely original, is tastefully done. I like the body color, it looks pretty close to what I think of when I say Bluette, and the interior color also, though not an original option, suits the body color. I’m not a fan of the body color on the wheels -adds a cartoonish aspect to it, but repainting wheels is among the easiest tasks. I like that they tout the condition of the trunk yet fail to provide a picture. Maybe they need a continuity editor…
Shut lines are great, trim looks wonderful and the car has a capable poise -no doubt matched by the 1750! I’m trying to like those wheels -honest! Is that rear view mirror positioned correctly? I always thought the wide part went to the outside.
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Market 406: Sprint 10105 20729 -how you used to find them
Update 4/6/12: I subscribe to the idea that the price is the price -especially in the pure market forces exercise that an auction is, but I can’t help thinking that this car is under-appreciated and worth more than the sum of it’s parts. Car is listed in the current Giuliettaletta for an asking price of $20K. A little high in my opinion, but not massively.
Update 3/27/12: Car went unsold with a high bid of $12,100 -not meeting reserve, but has been relisted. I wouldn’t have sold it for $12,100.
3/17/12: Giulietta Sprint 10105 1493*20729. This car is on eBay right now out of Kennett Square, Pennsylvania from a long time Alfa club guy. Seller says it was owned by the Dupont family and under went several color changes from the original Celeste (or whatever shade of light blue). Car is currently powered by a 1600 engine out of a 101 Spider that has a blown head gasket, but comes with the original 1300. The usual caveats apply -it’s complete, together, and not far from the road, but needs a lot of help to be a nice car. That said, it is one of the better Sprint projects I’ve written about.
Looking very much like my car -patina and all. Biggest plus for this car is its potential to be a rolling restoration. Check the brakes out, do the head gasket or whatever, tie up the loosest ends in the interior, suspension etc and drive it. While you use it you can source parts, come up with a plan, and begin the restoration.
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Market 274: Nice Interim Sprint
Update 4/6/12: If this car is worth $25,900 then the Giulietta market has fallen off a cliff. Admittedly the interior has some issues and the car probably photographs better than it actually is, but as far as Sprints likely to come on the market goes, this will always be in the 90th percentile. I just don’t think the privacy of an eBay auction ending at home when you are alone in your PJ’s sipping your favorite Rye waiting for your Sprint object of bidding to close has quite the same thrill as sitting in the RM audience with the lights, noise, booze and tits all swirling around you, taking larger and larger chunks out of your bank account as you try and out do the Donald Trump hair-do next to you.
Update 3/3/12: This car is now on eBay after a short ownership by someone in North Carolina. It looks as good as ever. The saga continues.
Update 3/15/11: This car sold through Fantasy Junction recently. Went for much more than the highest eBay bid. Is eBay on its way out?
Update 1/11/11: Back on eBay and looking for a new owner. This looks like a good one. Go for it!
Update 12/27/10: $20,101 after 28 bids with reserve not met. Disappointing really -I guess mine is worth a few thousand less than I thought -not that I want to sell it but, well , this car should have seen at least $28,000.
Giulietta Sprint 10105*20386, 1315*010370. This pretty good specimen of an interim Sprint is on eBay right now out of Southern California. Of note to me is that it is 7 cars later in production than my Sprint (20379) with the next engine number after mine (1315*010369) and also a USA market car by its 10105 prefix.
Looking good. I need a set of the front lenses in white -mine are amber Euro spec.