750B – Giuliettas

February 3, 2016

Market 240: Sprint 750B 08689 on wires!

Update February 3 2016: This car has come back on the eBay market out of New York. It’s sold as a car with one owner for over 30 years – but I think that can be said for many many Giuliettas that come on the market – even mine! Interesting counterpoint to the Sprint out of Mexico I wrote about yesterday.

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Bravo on a nice picture. I like the new yellow headlamps. I’m still at odds with the wire wheels. We’ll see how much value the clover leaf stickers and headlamps add.

Update January 12 2012: I have it on good word that this car has been sold.

Update January 7 2012: The time they are a changin’ for our favorite little coupe. Just 18 months ago this 750B Sprint 08689 struggled to reach $25,000 on eBay, and now, today it is listed for $64,500 by Fantasy Junction with a big ‘Sale Pending’ sign under it. It looks amazing in the photos, and with a two liter engine should be a blast to drive, but this price for an Abnormale? I guess.

A little wide in the stance with these wire wheels. Attention to detail is impressive, as is the coat of shine.

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November 2, 2015

Market 522: Sprint 750B 06376 – needing everything, but doable

Giulietta Sprint 750B 1493*06376. This car is available on eBay out of Oak Lawn Illinois. It is about as far apart as a Sprint can get and lacks an engine. Body has rust. Not terrible, but not trivial either. If this was in my neighborhood I’d be tempted by it -being a sucker for hard luck cases and all, and wanting a Series 1 750B quite a bit. A reader has 2 complete 1959 750B engines for sale in California at $5K each if you are considering this.

This has the little grill bar trims. Nose is pretty straight. Looks to have some corrosion in the lower edge.

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October 2, 2015

Market 514: Sprint 750B 00356 in Indonesia

Giulietta Sprint 750B 1493*00356. Listed on Anamera out of Indonesia. I thought I saw this car out of US east coast on eBay at one point. Maybe the eBay seller was really in Indonesia? It’s early and it’s rough, but it is not hopeless…

If it was local I’d go have a look for sure. Looks to have been well used, but left too long in the rain. Should have the short windshield?

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October 1, 2015

Market 512: Minty early Sprint 750B 00977 in Italy

Giulietta 750B 1493*00977, 1315*01023, Body 65970. Yesterday I was really excited about Sprint 00656, today I am, if possible, more excited about Sprint 00977 available form the same seller. I’m more of a green guy than a red guy, and this car just looks right to me. I realize it probably has some originality deficiencies that someone with more authority than me will point out, but thats okay, I’d take it just as it is. I have seen 3 sub-1000 Sprints come on the market in the last few weeks, must be a virus that’s going around.

Anyone near enough to go verify the body number and give us a test drive or in-person review?

That is a great car in a great color. I wonder how original it was before the restoration? Looks to have rolled lip rims still. Even has the neat little turn signal lights and jack point covers.

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September 30, 2015

Market 511: Sprint 750B 00656 in Italy

Giulietta Sprint 750B 1493*00656, 1315*00648, Body 65650. Available now out of Italy from Aquarama boats and cars. Their site is under construction, I found it on Anamera. This is one of the neatest (in my opinion) cars I’ve had the pleasure to write about in a long time. If circumstances were different I’d be emailing Italy all excited, ready to hop on a plane. Early Sprints seldom come up for sale, and when they do, they tend to be in a pretty rough state. This car looks ready to go.

I have only seen a handful of Giuliettas on offer over the years that included period pictures. Super cool! Sill trim below the door is missing. Continue reading “Market 511: Sprint 750B 00656 in Italy”

September 30, 2015

Market 431: Sprint 750B 06395 -much assembly required

Update October 1 2015: Available now from Joop Stolze.

Giulietta Sprint 750B 493*06395, 1315*05812 & 00112*15344. This car appears to be offered by ReOriginal’s on eBay out of Livingston TX. Car is very much where the project I am currently working on is -lots to do! Paint is 10 years old but shines, interior work looks pretty good and it comes with an extra engine. No mention is made whether all the trim etc comes with the car. This is a rare car in that it’s one of the last 750B Normale’s -the last 200 750 ‘eyebrow’ grill Sprints were Veloce’s.

But do the original parts include bumper, ‘eyebrow’ grills, headlights with rings, hood center strip and front center grill? Looks pretty nice here. You can buy those bumper bracket trim bits new from several vendors.

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May 16, 2014

Market 494: Basketcase Sprint 750B 06248

Giulietta Sprint 750B 1493*06248, 1315*05668. This jigsaw puzzle of a Sprint is on eBay out of Dallas. Bumpers excepted it looks somewhat complete at first glance (Lionel is going to ask me to define complete again) but you have to wonder how useable all the parts are. Some metal repair has been done, the quality of which is near impossible to determine without seeing it in person, but if you go into this assuming a lot of it will be redone to meet your very high standards, you can just pretend it still has gaping rust holes. Pete’s has this car listed with a, $11,500 sticker price. Not a bad deal for someone who already has one of these under restoration.

One wonders at the 56 year road that now sees this car stripped of parts and in primer in a gravel parking lot in Dallas. Doesn’t look too bad from this angle if you are not afraid of fasteners. Continue reading “Market 494: Basketcase Sprint 750B 06248”

February 6, 2014

Market 322: Giulietta Sprint -some assembly required

Update 2/5/14: This is the car I referred to in the write up of the super rusted out Sprint a few days ago. Get that and this and you would have the basis for a doable project.

Update 2/1/12: Body appears to have sold for $3800 -this didn’t include much of anything to build the car out. Continue reading “Market 322: Giulietta Sprint -some assembly required”

January 20, 2014

Market 157: restored 101 Sprint in Australia

Update 1/20/2014: This car found its way to Texas and recently sold through Driversource for about $45,000. Still a nice looking example. This car was priced a bit on the high side back in 2009 or the market hasn’t moved much I guess. I’ll split the difference.

A great color for Sprints I think.

10/21/2009: Giulietta Sprint 750B 1493*06979, 1315*06197. Frank sent me an email pointing out this car for sale at Classic Throttle Shop in Sydney Australia (who also has a VERY charming Fiat 850 panel van.). Asking price for this Sprint is AUD$43,995 or a little over $40,000 US. A high price, but a very nice car.

Nothing to fault here. Grills, headlight rings, lenses, bumper etc all look very nice. A pair of period Carello headlamps would be the finishing touch, but Australia might have ordinances about headlight brightness that they actually enforce. I have the wipers set that high on my windshield and they move around and chatter at speed, they need to be just at the edge of the windshield gasket on the up side of the free play since the 60 – 80 mph winds they will encounter while working will keep them at that position. Repositioning mine is like job 1142 on my list of things to do.

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September 21, 2013

Market 484: Early 750B Sprint in Texas 05588

Giulietta Sprint 750B 1493*05588, 1315*04982. This somewhere between here and there project is on eBay now out of Richardson Texas. Asking price is a somewhat aggressive $33,500 that will seem like a deal in 5 years. While the project has been moved forward, and one could carry on, ignoring the less-than-perfect aspects and create a driver, I would consider a rethink on some of the work done and take a step back. The wiring looks awful and new well made harnesses can be had from multiple sources for not much money -so this at least needs to be redone -yes, I know the under dash wiring is a bear, but that’s what patience is for right? Overspray and incorrect finishes in the engine compartment also needs attention, but none of this is particularly difficult. At the end of the project you’d have a nice early Sprint!

Looks very nice. I’m sure someone can count few things wrong – like the missing badge, but as these go it’s pretty good.

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