Category: Restored Cars

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Market 178: RHD Giulia 1600 Sprint

Giulia Sprint 1600 10112. I have taken to ignoring advertisements for cars where the VIN number is not mentioned, an arbitrary filter of sorts to keep me from spending all my time on Market Reports if you will, but this car, off of the awkwardly named Car and Classic dot com, deserves mention because I think it’s the first right hand drive late 1600 Sprint I’ve seen. Maybe one of my UK based readers will recognize it and have a VIN for it they can send along. Alfa did about 400 RHD 1600 Spiders with their own Tipo number -10119, I wonder if a RHD Sprint has its own Tipo number? RHD SS’s don’t.

Looks like a very nice Sprint with exemplary chrome and paint. Is it Good wood or Goodwood? Either way, it’s one of the places I need to visit someday during their Festival of Speed Week. Why don’t they have a car show with period dress required of attendees here in the USA? Oh yeah, we are on average a nation of slobs so attendance would be low. Continue reading “Market 178: RHD Giulia 1600 Sprint”

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Market 171: SS 10120*00474 in Europe.

Giulietta Sprint Speciale 10120*00474, 00120*01042.  This car is available now on several European classified listing services.  Price is 35,000 pounds -about $56,900 at the time of writing.  I have this car on the Production and Register page as being in the USA, I guess it’s on the move.

I have decided against red, mainly because my Sprint is red, but this car has me reconsidering.  Appearance of this car is what you would expect for an expensive example.  I almost just typed that this car is a mid-range car after yesterdays $125,000 effort.  This is a good solid ready to use car.

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Market 165: Used car lot Interim Spider -nice!

Update 11/30/09: 21 bidders, $27,000, reserve met.  A good result!

Giulietta Spider 10103*10786. This car is on eBay right now out of Illinois. Car is an interim car falling right in the middle of 1960 production range for 10103 Spiders. Title year being one after production is the norm for these cars in the US. Car is said to be all restored and from a long time (28 years) owner.

The source of my title: the big 61 used car lot style window sticker. Front of the car looks great. Hood fits perfectly, chrome is exemplary and paint looks wet it’s so shiny. Wipers are higher on the windshield than I would recommend. At this height they would chatter in the wind and scuff the glass.

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Market 161: Nice 1600 Spider in Seattle

Update 11/6/09: 30 bids, $26,100, reserve not met.  A lot of money for a 1600 Spider.  I suspect we will be seeing this car again. 

Giulia 1600 Spider 10123*372671. This car is currently on eBay out of Seattle Washington. There seem to be a lot of these 1600 Spiders making the rounds on eBay lately, perhaps a good time to jump in if you have been considering one.

spider 372671 cliffVery nice image here. Good to see someone thinking about how the effort put in to listing a car is proportional to the result. It just looks right. Trim, stance, panel fit -everything and a nice vista to boot.

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Market 156: Giulia SS 380642 in Italy

Giulia Sprint Special 10121*380642.  While perusing their garden of arcane delights I found this announcement on Anamera of Coys intent to auction this Padova Italy based car.  Estimated selling price is 38,000 Euro’s or $56,700 of our recently depressed US dollars.  I would call this near retail for a nice SS that is not really perfect but doesn’t have much in the way of wants.

380642 frontIt’s always tough to judge these cars because even the slightest deviation from a perfectly head on picture makes them look a little asymetric.    Drivers side corner of this car looks ever so slightly lower than passenger corner and all it takes to cause this is an odd reflction.  It’s all part of the hand made charm.  Bright work is all present and pretty good, though I would guess the headlights are mismatched in some way -whether age or brand.  Where in Italy is GR? Continue reading “Market 156: Giulia SS 380642 in Italy”

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1495*00004 Bertone Spider Prototype 2

In the last Spider prototype post I looked at was 1495*00002. Alfa liked that car but found it a bit alienating for their more traditional customers so Bertone was sent back to the drawing board and this car, 1495*00004 emerged. There are definitely cues from 00002 that carried over, but there are also new elements. This design is attributed to Franco Scaglione.

argiuliettabertoneThis picture from google images. I have a picture of this car form Pebble Beach a few years back somewhere. It does share the look of the BAT cars but to me also seems to predict the Zagato treatments that Giulietta’s would see. Note lack of a top cross bar on the windshield assembly and the cut down angled side windows.

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Market 146: Nice expensive Giulietta Spider

Update 9/18/09:  This car sold for $35,000 with 4 bidders joining the fray.  I am thinking that this car was very impressive in person and the winning bidder went and saw it.  Regardless, this is BIG money for a Spider Normale with the wrong engine.  Well sold! 

This car is essentially the same as my project Spider being a late 1300 in gray with red.  Time to get to work. 

Giulietta Spider 10103*170953.  This car is available on eBay right now out of Florida.  Seller says it’s a restored 1962 1600 Spider.  It was really born in 1961 and was originally a 1300.  It’s not a Veloce, so it doesn’t really matter that it’s not powered by its original engine.

front 170954This is the same color combo as my spider, red on gray, and in my humble opinion, probably the best color combo for an Alfa of this period.  Bumper over riders have been deleted.  Stance is perfect, hood, door and trim fit is as well.

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Market 145: Giulietta SS 00347 in Belgium

Giulietta Sprint Speciale 10120*00347.  This car is available right now in Belgium from Marreyt-classics.  It was assembled in France by Renault which means it has a glass brake fluid reservoir and a special build plate.  It probably also has a town/country horn set up and would have had all yellow headlights.

DSC05445This car is probably Bosphoro blue, one of the more common non red/white colors you find SS’s in.  Sitting here in the sun this car looks excellent. 

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Market 142: restored 1600 Spider

Update 10/12/09:  An offer of $30,000 has been accepted for this car.  Well bought?  Well sold?  Who knows, I’m just surprised the seller got $1000 more than the Buy iy Now price from the first time around.  Nice work!

Update 9/16/09:  After failing to attract a bid at $29,000 the seller has relisted this car with the ante upped to $35,000.  Makes perfect sense to me… 

Giulia 10123*379928, 00112*11686.  This car is on eBay right now with an opening bid/Buy it Now price of $29,000.  The car has 7000 miles on a restoration.  The mechanical specification is impressive and if everything is as stated, this is retail price for a good car.  I’m not excited about the red paint, but would rather have a no nonsense usable car in a color I am not excited about than a car that needs a lot of TLC in a color I love.

Alfa 1600 Spider 101Paint looks great, as does trim and shut lines.  I need a set of these headlight rings!  From this angle and with this camera it looks like it’s peering out of a goldfish bowl.

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Market 141: Superb Silver SZ

Giulietta Sprint Zagato 10126*00067.  This car, available now at Fantasy Junction, went through Bonham’s earlier this month and failed to sell with an estimate between $240,000 and $270,000.  Current asking price is $268,500 which, after FJ takes their 6% cut and monthly boarding fees, puts the seller in the low end of the above estimate.  FJ is a natural venue for cars that fail to sell at the Monterey weekend auctions, being close to the action and a very highly regarded outfit.  I usually try to do a walk through a few saturdays after the big weekend to see what exotica has turned up.

31261A very subtle design, with function informing beauty at every intersection, and yet in all its spartan glory, it has headlight rings, grill trims and hubcaps ‘just in case’.  A car in which to win the Targa Florio in or pick up your significant other for a night on the town.

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