Update 4/3/11: Bidding reached $10,260 after 19 bids but the reserve was not met. I was thinking maybe $15,000 or a little more. While it needs a total restoration, it is pretty complete and runs right now so you could do the job where you make everything work first, use it a bit then restore it once you’ve done your research and know it’s what you want to do.
Originally posted 3/22/11: Giulietta Sprint 750B 1493*00668, 1315*00744. Early Sprints like this one, currently at auction on eBay, seldom come up for sale. It is a daunting project, but with matching numbers and basically complete, including rare early aluminum hood and air cleaner, someone will very likely restore it. Thanks for the heads up on this car Brad!
Small headlights, aluminum hood, probably the early slightly shorter windshield among other things make this a desirable car. Shame it was let to sit and rot in the New Jersey winter for several years before being pushed indoors.
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Market 184: project Sprint 02880
Update 3/15/11: This car is now on eBay being sold out of Michigan. No new pictures are available.
More information on early style 750B Sprints.
2/2/10: Giulietta Sprint 750B 1493*02880, 1315*02671. This car, a 1956, is available right now from the seller of Market 179, another early Sprint project. Â Asking price for the pair is about $27,000. Â I can put you in contact with the seller if you want to figure out a separate price.
Paint was removed to assess body condition. Â Looks fairly straight under the current splotch. Â Is that a Jolly beside it? Continue reading “Market 184: project Sprint 02880”
Market 264: 1957 750B Sprint puzzle in Sweden
Update: The UK guy is not the owner AND both door panels are included. I can still put you in contact with the seller if you want…
Giulietta Sprint 750B 1493*04386. A guy in the UK asks a guy in San Francisco Bay Area to list a car he has stored in Sweden… of course! This small headlight, matching number 1957 750B project is available now for the reasonable 9000 Euro’s. Email me (sprints at giuliettas dot com) if you want a direct email address for the seller.
Looks like a Sprint to me. Door fit is great, nose is pretty good and the hood fit is good enough as a place to start. Kind of an odd color combo with beige and rusty orange wheels -original was Grigio Chiarissimo. Windows and trim look good.
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Market 257: Series 1 750B Sprint project
Giulietta Sprint 750B 1493*05931, 1315*05350. This Sprint was posted for sale on the Alfa BB a few days ago out of Eau Claire Wisconsin. As can be seen from the pictures it’s a big project but the $5000 obo asking price is reasonable considering the matching numbers and state of the engine. I was tempted myself by this but then I thought about my soon to be departed SS’s and vow to only get into ‘easy’ projects and, well, here it is for someone else to go for.
This treatment reminds me of Market 228 Sprint -either it’s how they come out when a bondo mask is applied, or the same artist at work. But… it comes with a spare nose for grafting purposes. Yea… looks scary but it’s on wheels and lots of stuff is in place.
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Market 255: 1956 Sprint "needs restored"
Update 9/7/10: $7900 after 24 bids is where this unlikely survivor ended up. Good luck new owner!
Giulietta Sprint 750B 1493*03396. This 1956 column shift Sprint is on eBay right now out of Medina Ohio with a current, reserve not met price of $2500 after 14 bids and 9 days to go. Car sports a set of later egg-crate style grills but the headlights still appear to be the early small type so I doubt the body has been altered. Check it out.
6″ lights I think -good thing the buckets are present -too bad the lights themselves are ruined. Hood spear has been abused. 101 grills can probably be fit without much effort on an early car.
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Market 251: Apart for 40 years 1955 750B Sprint
Update 8/18/10: That was fast. I didn’t see a ‘Buy it Now’ option last night when I wrote this up and now the car has been sold for $8995. Probably a better deal for the buyer than seller, but if the buyer is half way around the world it’s an $11,000 + transaction by the time it’s in the garage.
Giulietta Sprint 750B 1493*01365, 1315*01432 (not included -blank replacement instead). Just when you thought the last worthy early Sprint project had been unearthed and sold and you missed your chance -another comes along, just like this one available on eBay now. Just imagine tracking down all the original Fontana and Lobo nuts and bolts!
I’ve been waiting for this day since 1967 when I was stripped, acid dipped and parked in a cement floor garage -at least that’s my best translation of 1950’s Italian. Very straight nose on this guy! Continue reading “Market 251: Apart for 40 years 1955 750B Sprint”
Market 168: Giulietta Sprint fixed up 'My way'
Update 8/16/10: This car is now for sale out of San Francisco on eBay. Seller is an Alfa enthusiast I know personally and good guy so I am confident things are as described.
Vroom! Tough looking Sprint -this is the type of minimal approach I plan on taking with my Giulietta SS if it stays in my keeping.
Update 1/24/10: It’s not very often that a car manages a higher finish the second time around on eBay, but then again it’s not very often that someone bothers to post more/better pictures, and an expanded description including a viable explanation for the failure of the first campaign. Very well done at $17,601.
Update 1/17/10: “I sold this alfa on ebay a few weeks ago to a delightful gentleman who planned to drive it back to his home in Mexico City. That, by the way, impressed the hell out of me!! But after some second thoughts he decided it probably was too risky. We mutually agreed to cancel the deal. So here it is relisted and available again for the eager, the brave and the hardcore.” Nice. There are some new and improved pictures as well.
Update 12/7/09: This car sold for $15,967 after 31 bids were placed. A reader expressed surprise at this result, thinking it would sell for more. I think the result is about right. Most people are going to want to change it -whether it means a bigger engine or a correction of some of it to a more original spec. This car represents a good buy in my opinion.
Giulietta Sprint 750B 1493*06702, 1315*05885. This car is on eBay right now from the collection of an Alfisti in southern California, known for both the rarity of his cars and his willingness to do his own thing when fixing them up to put them back on the road. Originality police will no doubt give this car a hard time, but it was probably done when these cars were $2500 for runners and restoration parts were few, far between and expensive. He has sold some odd stuff in the past like a 2 door Giulia Super conversion and a Giulia Super truck conversion but of all the things he’s sold, I still wish I had gotten a loan and bought the Giulia Promiscua he sold through Fantasy Junction a few years ago!
I like these cars with out the brightwork. Grill opening bars are adapted to this car from elsewhere… an early 750 Sprint or Spider perhaps. Stance of this car on the Panasports is tight and the paint and shut lines look good in the pictures. Most missing trim is said to be included in the sale. Continue reading “Market 168: Giulietta Sprint fixed up 'My way'”
Market 241: Nice 750B in Portugal
Giulietta Sprint 750B 1493*07790. This car is available now from FS Automoveis in Lisbon for the not outrageous but high asking price of 29,500 Euro’s -$38,800 on the day of writing. Condition is good as far as can be discerned by the low quality pictures.
Good looking car! It has a unified patina and shine -the kind of car you want to buy if you want to just drive it home and enjoy it.
Market 202: Rough early Sprint in France
Giulietta Sprint 750B. Listed as a 1956 in LVA, the leading classic newspaper in France, is this rusty Sprint. Price of entry is 5000 Euro’s or about $6800. Without more pictures I would have to say this is pretty ambitious as a project since a Sprint this early in good, though unrestored shape can be had in the mid $20k’s.
It looks to be complete other than the missing metal from the bodywork. Rims may be the early rolled edge style -can’t really tell in pictures of this resolution. Advertisement indicates it was an original French delivery car and thus probably has the glass brake fluid reservoir and yellow headlights. Door gaps are superb here for what it’s worth.
Market 189: Early Sprint project 750B 01996 in Italy
Giulietta Sprint 750B 01996 is available right now on Italian eBay out of Padua Italy. While incomplete, it looks like a good, albeit expensive start for someone looking for an early car. I’ll be in the market for one when the SS is done -but that may be a while.
Not exactly straight and ready for paint, the drivers side lower grill area looks to be pushed in a little. Dig the string holding the glass in place. Must have been shipped recently.
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