Update 1/12/12: This car is still available, and currently listed on Autoscout. Thanks for the tip Elmar! Asking price is 8200 Euro’s.
Someone has a new coat of primer!
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Market 358: Early Spider 00647, slightly modified
Update 1/4/12:Â Wow, $6,412!!
Giulietta Spider 750D 1495*00647. This odd-ball home-brew special is on eBay right now out of Sacramento. I am going to assume this is all reversible, and only the front end changes will present any challenge not part of routine rust repair. Title of the auction says ‘Veloce’ but 00647 is not listed as such in d’Amico & Tabucchi. If the engine is matching numbers to the body -and I believe it is based on the fuel line configuration- this is actually a pretty good first step toward early Spider ownership in project form. Me? I’d vacuum out the leaves and roll as-is to Pebble Beach -you’d turn more heads in this than an 8C 2900. If you had this car and the Market 216 car, you’d corner a dubious market.
Roof gutter definitely recalls the VW bug. Too bad they didn’t have access to a Sprint roof to work with -might have been more successful. Firewall is early Spider 750D leading me to believe more strongly that the vin is correct. Headlight openings are likely 70’s Alfa Spider sections. Engine looks remarkably complete and original.
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Market 355: Barn find Spider Veloce 02264
Update 12/31/11: Sold for $30,100!
Giulietta Spider Veloce 750F 1495*02264, 1315*30740. Brad pointed out that this car just popped up on eBay out of Connecticut. As far as Spider Veloce projects goes, this car just about has it all -1957 build date, matching numbers, correct intake system including 40DCO3’s, seats with tracks, moderate rust, and overall decent completeness. It’s still a project, and as such maybe a road to ruin, but among projects, it’s not too bad.
Looks like a really good car -maybe wax it, vacuum the spiders out of the engine compartment, iron the carpets and away you go. Hood fit is really good.
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Market 95: 1600 Spider project in Carlsbad
Update 12/17/11: I’m still a little skeptical, but this car seems to have surfaced as a restored example in France for 32,000 Euro or $41,600. I’ve compared pictures and the drivers side mirror, gauges and shift knob look the same between both. What do you think? If it sold for $12,000, cost $2000 to get it to Europe, that leaves $27,000 to fix it up and try and make money over 18 months. If all it needed was rust repair, a respray and some catalog parts, maybe they’ll make money. I suppose it really begs the question of corners cut.
Lots of pictures to compare here.
No visual cues yet that it’s the same car.
Same wood shifter knob and yellowed tri-gauge. Neither is a rare thing. Interior looks okay -seat covers are wrong.
Other than being a lot cleaner, it could be the same engine compartment. Same radiator cap?
Update 11/11/09: This car has turned up at Steuel in the Netherlands. Price is not 11,500 Euro ($17,200 while the dollar lasts as the semi-universal currency). Let’s see, $1000 to get it across the water, add a few thou’ to it and the makings of a living can be seen. I’m surprised the hardtop wasn’t removed and sold separately.
Giulia Spider 375838 finds itself in a new country with a new language to learn and in the hands of people who have seen way worse rust.
Update 6/16/09: Amazing what can happen on eBay. This car ended at $12,200 with 22 bidders this time around. That is almost double what it reached last time with the same amount of bidders. Maybe someone really wanted the hard top! This car is in many ways not as nice as my car that I am asking $4000. I guess it’s time to put it on eBay.
Update 6/8/09: Apparently not sold, this car is once again on eBay though the seller has a different ID, not sure what that is about. Current bid is higher than the previous selling price and it’s only been on half a day. Seller has another Spider project, earlier, not as complete and a Veloce, that was listed at the same time. I think I would space the listings out if it were me, but there seems to be no shortage of Spider projects so it probably wouldn’t help.
Sorry about the lack of postings, I’ve been busy with other stuff and WordPress has been taking a LONG time to do/load anything so I get frustrated. Must be the large amount of stuff I have saved on their site.
Update 3/19/09: Car sold for $6250 with 22 bids. Probably well bought when everything is considered, especially the hard top.
Giulia Spider 1600 101.23 AR375858, Engine AR00502*15806 (Sprint GT). This little gem available on eBay right now out of Carlsbad California (near San Diego) re enforces the notion that ‘it’s always something’. Here we see a promising start with a complete car wearing very straight trim, a factory hard top, California Black Plates and a Sprint GT engine. While the engine is not original, with these ‘regular’ Spiders it doesn’t really matter so long as it runs. The something? This car is pretty rusty where it matters.
I could see just making this thing run and drive and then using it rusty bumpers (or no bumpers) and all. From this picture it looks like Carello’s chrome is longer lasting than Alfas and the grill eyebrows make me think it all should be stainless.
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Market 346: Spider project 750D 00140
Giulietta Spider 750D 1495*00140, 1315*40151 (missing, now 1315*011042). This very early number 1956 Spider is available now from Classic Investments in Englewood Colorado. No price is stated.
Nose is about average for a nearly stripped to a shell Spider. Red over white over blue -how patriotic. I wonder if that medium blue is the original?
Market 345: Spider project 750D 03719
Update 12/20/11: 18 bids, $10,211, Sold! Such a deal, one of the better I’ve seen.
Giulietta Spider 750D 1495*03719, 1315*43479. This car is on eBay right now out of Conklin, NY. It’s the most apart of the Spiders I’ve posted the last few days, but it looks to be the most solid and straight-forward of the lot to build. The reason it is so apart is it was underwater during a flood in 2006. Seller is very forthwith about this and the condition of each assembly and how it has been affected.
Body looks very good as a place to start. Wheels are Borrani’s. I always wondered what happened when classic cars got flooded.
Market 344: Spider Veloce project 750F 03409
Giulietta Spider Veloce 750F 1495*03409, 1315*30905 (missing, 40168 included): This car is available from Beverly Hills Car Club for $29,500. Car is in okay condition, being generally solid and attractive, but having a lot of questionable repairs in evidence, and in need of a lot of mechanical work.
Paint looks to have been competently applied. Chrome parts need chrome. Hood fits pretty good. Not sure what the holes in the bumpers are all about.
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Market 343: Spider Veloce project 750F 05994
Update 12/20/11: Reserve not met. It’s a Veloce. It’s rough. It’s a Veloce. It’s incomplete. It’s a Veloce. It’s…
Giulietta Spider Veloce 750F 1495*05994, 1315*32354 (missing). This car is on eBay right now from Wholesale California in Costa Mesa. It spent the better part of it’s existence in a field in Washington and it shows. Lots to fix, but it is a 750 Veloce! Original engine is missing, but a blank block is included, not sure if it’s a 750 or 101. Car is listed on their site for $15,900.
Just looks overly scruffy in this view. Trim is all pretty decent when you consider the elements.
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Market 342: Spider project 750D 02532
Update 12/17/11: Auction was ended because the vehicle is no longer available.
Giulietta Spider 750D 1495*02532, 1315*40155. This car is on eBay right now, offered by Classic Investments out of Englewood Colorado. Engine number 155 is pretty low for a mid-run 750D, and no build plate is present, so there is a pretty good chance it’s not original to the car. On the good side the engine has been rebuilt at a claimed $10,000+ expense -seems a little high in my experience. Whatever the case, this is a pretty decent start to a Spider project.
Yep -a Spider in need of a lot of help. I see filler at the bottom grill opening -expect more.   Grill bars, headlight buckets and marker lights are present.
Market 336: Spider 1600 Veloce project
Update 12/3/11: Auction was ended early, car is no longer available.
Giulia Spider Veloce 1600 AR390369, 00121*01965. This car is on eBay right now at $9500 with 5 days to go and perfectly represents the opposite end of the spectrum from Market 335’s nicely restored Spider Veloce 1600 AR390532 that is $68,500 and listed as ‘sale pending’. Seller says it’s numbers matching and complete but in need of much metal work.
Am I the only one that looks at a car in this condition and has a hard time accounting for the degradation? ‘I have a great idea’, says weekend warrior shade tree mechanic who fancies himself a restorer, either blind to, or imagining himself capable of seeing the very complex process through for 1000+ hours and at an expense of $60,000 over two or three years. Taking it apart is easy…
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