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Market 397: julieta sprint velocy

Giulietta Sprint Veloce (?). I guess the title says it all. This car is available through Kajiji out of British Columbia for offers in the neighborhood of $30,000. The title makes me wonder about the owners involvement with the car. Still, a Sprint Veloce with a decent recent repaint and some new chrome is pretty interesting if the drive train is original.

I guess this answers the question of what you do with the extra little bit of red paint in the gun are answered. The tail pipe?  Paint that shit red.  The wheels?  Them too!  Big question is… is this a garage sale or what?

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Market 396: 1954 Sprint in Bulgaria

Giulietta Sprint 750B. Henrik sent me a link to this car a couple of days ago.  Car is in Bulgaria and exhibits all the usual characteristics of an older car that’s been kept on the road through a combination of the clever application of incorrect parts as needed, and changes made to suit the tastes of the owner -a lot like the cars that come out of Mexico or South America.  No vin number is stated, but if it’s a 1954, it must be between 1493.00011 and 00023 according to Fusi, or ‘somewhere in that neighborhood’ if other known chassis numbers from this era are any indication.  If anyone knows the chassis number, let me know!

Body looks pretty good.  Has the small headlights .  Is that a ‘short’ windshield?    Wheels look like Fiat or some eastern block equivalent.  Wipers look modern.

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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.

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Glas 1700 GT: making headway

Today was an exciting day, the head I dropped off at my local machine shop for a skim and valve job a few weeks ago turned up and progress on the build could begin again.  I asked for the budget build -basically the minimum required to get me on the road, which turned out to be new stem seals, a quick pass with a fly cutter to skim the head and a nice valve seat cut.

There’s corrosion around the water passageways and deposits on the exhaust valves, but the head is flat and the valves hold pressure, so it should work -would in Calcutta.  Check out the angle the spark plug comes in at.

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Market 395: Spider 750D 05500 project in the Southwest

Giulietta Spider 750D 1495*05500.  This car was offered on the AlfaBB out of New Mexico for offers.  Sellers claims he rescued it from an imminent trip to the crushers.  Looks like a challenging but doable project or great parts car.  If you’re interested call Bruce: 915-892-3619.

Looks like it was someones parts car already.  Wheel seen here is a Borrani -a scarce part.  Door fits well, some rust in the rocker.  I’ve seen worse.

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Market 394: Touring Spider 2600 192753 Champagne and red leather

2600 Spider Touring 10601*192753, 00106*065980.  This car is available now from the good folks at Fantasy Junction.  Color combo is an inspirational Champagne gold with red leather, and it looks amazing.  These big Touring Spiders have been popular with the high-dollar crowd for a while and represent an interesting slice of motoring.  Where a Giulietta is all nimble-ness, rev and simplicity -a motorized womb for the born to race, these are quite the opposite -fast but not quick, ponderous yet capable and as complex as a – well, I don’t actually have a good comparison, as complex as a Flaminia?  Too specific, as a Cold War era Soviet satelite?  Likely to get me watched by the anti-authorities.  How about ‘as complex as a Giulietta is simple’.  Sure.

Looks like a 1600 Giulia Spider with some accoutrements and, er, well, then it hits you –like a Giulia Spider that has a tooth for Bon-Bon’s.  Dig the built in driving lights.

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Giuliettas.com gets a friendly nod

I don’t know how many of you have blogs, or websites, or any idea of the information you get to see, but it’s pretty neat.  I come home from a day of whatever, open my laptop, check my email, the eBay auctions I post for a friend, etc then come here to my blog -but not the blog you see, rather, a control panel where I see how many visitors I’ve had on any given day (1219 page views so far today), total by increment -679,186 ever, 33,710 last month etc; and where the traffic came from and what it looked at.  Today I did this and noticed 19 referrals from an article at Hemmings.  Turns out an interview I did with David LeChance around the recent value gains by Giulietta and Giulia Spiders was posted to their site.  Check it out!

I know the story of this picture, but I can’t remember.  Uncle?

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Giulietta TI 109107 RIP

Gavin sent me these pictures along with a brief note that he had picked this car up and now had a shed full of spares from it.  The story is one I’m familiar with, and maybe you are too.  Guy who owned it rolled it outside a number of years ago to make room for some of its rarer cousins.  He is asked to sell repeatedly back when it was a viable used car, but refuses.  Ages go by, the elements reclaim much of the iron from it and ultimately what you see here is all that remains.  The old man dies, and the car goes on the market for parts -a needlessly dead thing.

Must be a bit of moisture in the area!  Note how the body just broke between the doors.  Must have been a chore digging this out of the vines.

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Market 393: 2600 Sprint 825680

Update 3/6/12: This car sold for $23,585 after 36 bids.  Probably a sightly disappointing outcome for the seller, but if they needed to sell it, it’s sold.

2600 Sprint Coupe 10602*825680, 00601*07668.  I’ve been mulling it over, and have decided to add the odd non-Giulietta to the Market when I see something that interests me, like 2000/2600’s, Montreal’s, Junior Z’s, 1900’s and the like.  This 2600 Sprint is on eBay right now out of Texas. Condition is superb (to my eyes), pretty much where I’d end up if I took the restored with acceptable patina route as far as possible.  I had a 2600 Sprint for a while -commuted in it for a few months 135 miles each way, was a great ride, and I’ve regretted selling it (along with about 20 other Alfa’s).  Owner would like to see close to $40,000.  I think they will be disappointed, but not too badly.  The pictures are good, but WAY too small.  Jose -if you want $40K for a car -spring for some decent pictures please!

The 2600 Sprint is a good looking car.  I think when you look at usability and comparables (Maserati’s mostly), you find these to be under-priced and very reliable.  Sure,they made a lot, but they have been complex their whole lives and good examples are few and far between.  I paid a pittance for mine and drove it home (on 4).  This car looks to have been someones pride and joy.  Very very clean and well presented.

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Market 392: 101 Spider 10238 -second worst pictures ever

Update 4/6/12: I don’t know if I’ve seen another car get 113 bids. That’s a lot of bids. Decent sale price.

Giulietta Spider 10103 1495*10238.  This car is on eBay right now out of Cripple Creek Colorado.  Pictures, which were marginal at best to start with, have been doctored so that it looks like the car was flying in space.  Why do this?  Maybe they were taken at a porn convention and nothing in the background was appropriate.  Who knows.  Sellers describes it as an abnormale, but really, it’s just a 1400 kitted original engine, not the 1750 or 2 liter usually associated with the term.  Despite the sellers best efforts to sabotage their auction with bad pictures and the abnormale tag, the car itself looks decent.

If Max Headroom had a Giulietta Spider on his show.  Tough to draw any conclusions from this.  It’s red, all red, has Boranni’s, the rear view mirror is correct -is missing a turn signal light, which is said to be included in the description.

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