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 249: Odd but nice Sprint 1600 in Italy
Giulia Sprint 1600 10112. This car is available now out of Italy for 25,000 Euro’s. It sports some odd treatments but looks to be a really nice car -I especially like the color combo.
Blue is slightly metallic. Bumper looks like it could use a good polish or perhaps replating. TP? Continue reading “Market 249: Odd but nice Sprint 1600 in Italy”
Market 248: Spider # 00418 in NL
Giulietta Spider 750D 1495*00418. Elmar forwarded me a link to this car for sale and it looks like a good one for those who are enticed by early production numbers. I only have 14 earlier cars listed on my 750D register!
This looks as good as most of the cars that have gone through eBay in the last couple of months. Seller describes it as either a superb resto candidate or a good car to just put back on the road. Continue reading “Market 248: Spider # 00418 in NL”
Market 247: clean 750D in Germany
Giulietta Spider 750D 1495*07183, 1315*45807. Another fabulous Giulietta out of Germany, this Spider is available from Wunscholdtimer for 39,500 Euro’s or about $52,000 at the time of writing. A lot of money but a very nice, original appearing Spider.
This car looks to have either been extremely well cared for since new or it’s an older restoration. The paint is great but some of the interior and engine compartment components lack the luster expected of a ‘new’ restoration. This is about as nice as I’d want a car to be. Front end looks amazing.
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Market 246: Exceptional(er), more expensive Sprint in Germany
Giulietta Sprint 10102*350073. This Sprint is also available from Movendi for the price of 47,900 Euro’s or about $63,200 (!!!) at the time of writing. This is not much than a 750E lightweight sold for last year… have times changed or is this car really that good? They list the car as a 1959 but the number is for a 1962.
I’ve never seen the grills blacked out in this way before -very cool looking. These guys know how to prep and photograph a car for sale. No cluttered background, no excuses detailing and just a sense of caring about the cars.
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Market 245: Exceptional Expensive Sprint in Germany
Giulietta Sprint 10102*157933, 00102*30207. This restored Sprint is listed at Movendi for 44,900 Euro’s or about $59,200 at the time of writing. The condition of the car is indeed exceptional except for adherence to originality in the interior, but I’ll make an exception since, while not original, it is extremely attractive.
This is one of those ‘better than new’ restorations you hope to one day buy. You’ll see what I mean if you follow the vin number link to this cars photo page. Sprints are great in white.
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Market 239: Giulietta Spider 750D 05488
8/11/10: No more beating around the bush -the car has been listed for $35K ‘buy it now’ or ‘make offer’. Throw an offer their way between the last high bid and the asking and maybe it can be yours.
8/10/10: 19 bids saw this car make $22,200 but the reserve was not met. Seller says they have the correct seats which is a plus. This car will probably be relisted and reach about the same high bid. I’m beginning to think eBay is not really suited for cars like this.
Giulietta Spider 750D 1495*05488, 1315*44524. This car is on eBay right now out of South Carolina. Condition is along the lines of well cared for drivers with some hidden blemishes and unoriginal parts -seats the most glaring feature in this category.
Hood fit is good, paint looks okay but not great. Trim -especially bumpers is presentable but not excellent. Just my kind of car!
Market 244: Early Spider at Gooding auction
Update 8/26/10: So, word is this car sold somewhere in the mid-$70K’s to a rich guy from Mexico. Rumor? I’ll try and find out.
Giulietta Spider 750D 1495*00724, 1315*40670. Gooding and Co. will be auctioning this 1956 Spider off at their Pebble Beach auction held August 14th and 15th. There is no reserve and the selling price is expected to be $70,000 – $90,000. Big money, but as the auction text states, this car is ‘striking’, ‘eligible’, ‘iconic’ and ‘superb’ -the full thesaurus treatment. I occurs to me that if this car makes money in the stated range it will be the most expensive production 750D recorded.
Paint looks amazing as do the shut-lines and trim. Stance is about perfect. Someone spent some money.
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Market 213: Spider 750D 01503, very nice project
Update 8/9/10: This car has turned up for sale yet again, this time on San Francisco Bay Area craigslist for $29,500Â I find it hard to believe work to the tune of about $10K has been done to it but it’s a free country and a fool and his money…
It really doesn’t look like a bad car and I understand that where there’s a buck to be made it will be made, but at least rattle-can that rust spot on the front wheel so we get the sense that some work has been done to earn the mark-up.
Update 5/1/10: 23 bids pushed the price up to $14,100 but the reserve was not met. Â I wouldn’t have sold it for that either. Â What’s fair for this car? Â The market will eventually decide, but my opinion is somewhere between $16k and $18k, maybe a little more if it’s better in person than the pictures, but that’s not usually the case. Â I think the appearance of another early 750D in slightly better shape derailed this auction a bit. Â List it again after an eBay Giulietta Spider dry spell but before the Monterey weekend Alfa 100 year celebrations and things should go well.
Giulietta Spider 750D 1493*01503. This car is on eBay right now out of Northridge Ca. Seller is pretty well known in the Alfa world and a straight shooter as they say. Car was on Craigslist not long ago… can’t remember when or where exactly but I think in 2010 and I think in Colorado for I think about $15K. If you are looking to restore an early one in the rolling restoration style then this is your car to start with!
Very nice and straight other than a bump in the bumper. Hood fit is not quite right on the passenger side but not terrible or anything.
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Alfa Centennial Celebration part 1
Brad Baum, a southern California Giulietta owner/restorer/enthusiast -whose name you may recognize, was in Italy for the Alfa Romeo 100 year celebration and sent me these pictures from a parking lot in Rho. He focused on the rare and interesting bits on the cars there. Check it out. Captions in Italics are Brads
This impeccable red 750 Sprint was in the Alfa museum parking lot Friday afternoon of the Centenario Alfa Romeo in Arese. I very much like the industrial design of this mirror, but it looks like it might interfere when the door is opened.