750 and 101 series cars 1954 – 1965
You’ve all been waiting for this. I know because more than anything else I get emails with links to PG-13  auctions. Not too much ill-advised content here, just decent looking chicks hopefully earning a few easy bucks while trying to make some poor guy bid on the object at auction with his virility.
This is a kit car based on a Chevy Aveo. Girl on the right reminds me a bit of Christine Taylor. This picture is all curves. I wonder how much a gig like this pays?
It might be slightly premature since I am waiting on a letter from Georgia DMV stating this car had no title issued due to its age, but since the money is spent and the garage space is filled I might as well go for it. I bought this 1969 GTV, number 1530320, one of the six hundred some-odd US spec 69 GTV’s made, because hey, a deal you can’t refuse is exactly that.
Evidence of the passage of time in ambivalent hands abounds. That black scorched area is from when a garage-mate and cousin caught fire. No one was hurt too bad and this guy is still healing.
Update 8/10/09: 2 bidders, $51, reserve not met. I’d give the seller $100 for the front suspension components without hesistation. I have a feeling it will be a while before anyone decides to take this thing on. Hopefully some kind soul will keep it out of the rain until then.
Giulietta Spider 750D 1495*00808. Available out of San Rafael California on eBay right now is this project. Early number is a draw for some Giulietta lovers, especially since it gives admission to many events open to 57 and before cars. Doors, trunk and hood are included so $2500 buy it now is somewhat reasonable.
Not for the faint of heart finds definition here. Must have been quite an accident. I know of a Giulia SS like this.
Continue reading “Market 139: Low number Spider 750 D challenge”
Giulia SS 10121*380456, 00121*01135. This car is available here in France now. Has been finished to a high, but awkward standard.
Nothing wrong here well, the upper lip does seem to stick out a bit more than usual, perhaps a trick of the photographers angle. Yellow headlight bulbs? I like.
Lots of fun was had the last few days and below is the result. This is after a quick spin around our cul-de-sac. Still need to check valve clearances etc but it sounds good. Water pump quieted down too.
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Saturdays tasks on the TI were all small and in most cases challenging. The first thing I did is plug the battery in again and check everything again, just for grins. The picture below tells a good story. I decided I could call it a day after I installed the radiator and radiator hoses, mounted the front grill and removed the front license plate and baby turbo mirrors.
High beams are nice and bright as are the markers. Note the Baby Tornado mirrors in this picture. Okay on a GTV6 or something but lame on a 64 TI.
Continue reading “TI Tidy Nineteen: death from a thousand pin pricks”
It’s 8:40 am on Saturday, I have an HOA meeting in 20 minutes but I think I can squeeze an update in here. Thursday I installed and wired the under dash switches and decided the wiring job was done from a point to point perspective. Yeah, reverse lights, under-hood light, horn relay and a few other odds and ends needed sorting but the wires were identified and ready for hook up so I am not concerned about any unknowns from them. At this point I rounded up some jumper cables and a battery and got to it trouble-shooting.
Fuse box is mounted as Satta intended. I’m using a late internally regulated alternator so no control box or regulator required. The horn relay is now where the regulator would go. If only I could get it to work… Fuses seen here are correct except the blue one and possibly the red one at the number three starting from the right position. The 10 fuse box has 2 8 amp circuits that are combined into one fused circuit on this 8 fuse box, so I decided it should be a 16 amp.
Continue reading “Ti Tidy 18: The light at the end of the wire”
Last Saturday I spent 8 hours at the shop working on the wiring harness of the TI. Yesterday I spent 2 more. This afternoon I will probably spend another 2 and this coming Saturday another 5 or so. That’s a lot of time. More than some people I know, with more cars, tools, and free time than me spend in a season on their cars. I could have probably made do with about 4 hours of wiring but I wanted it to be somewhat right, as in colors matching the diagrams, connectors insulated and of the original type and splices accomplished with soldering or butt connectors and heat shrink.  It went something like this:
This is a TI diagram for my car that I colored in with pens etc. Jim Neill (papajam for you BB’ers) sent me PDF’s of this diagram in black and white and a Super diagram in color. It would have been great if I had thought to ask before I did the first 8 hour stint, but I didn’t. The first 8 hours I used a diagram in the back of an ‘all 4 cylinder models’ type manual that had a font size of about 2 and was in Italian to boot. I needed both diagrams because I am converting to Super dash and switches, not because it’s cool, I just don’t have a TI dash. Anyone have a 64 TI dash to donate or sell?
Continue reading “TI tidy seventeen: lots and lots of wires”
Update 7/24/09: Sold for $15,530 after 37 bids were placed. If this car is as good or better than it looks this was well bought.
Giulietta Spider 10103 1495*09766. This Spider is on eBay right now out of Novato California, just north of San Francisco. It wears Washington license plates so it hasn’t been in the area long. I say baby blue rather than Celeste since it looks a little less sky and more boys baby blanket to my eyes.
There is no hood strip but the little 4 inch hood strip continuation piece is still between the hood hinges. I like the no grill eyebrows look and will probably go for this look with my Spider. Bumper overriders or ‘tusks’ are missing. All things considered, the car looks good. Note the poodle in the passenger seat. Dog smell is included at no extra charge.
Giulia Sprint 10112*353213. This car is currently on eBay out of Belmont California. It still wears it’s original black plates and looks to be a well cared for original rather than a restored car. I like! Notice also that it’s serial number is one before this car, another San Francisco Bay Area Sprint. Opening bid is at the desired sale price of $27,000.Â
Trim looks great and fits very well. The paint seems to be shiney and it just looks right.
Continue reading “Market 132: Maybe the nicest 1600 Sprint I’ve seen”