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Market 139: Low number Spider 750 D challenge

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.

149500808 noseNot for the faint of heart finds definition here.  Must have been quite an accident.  I know of a Giulia SS like this.

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TI Tidy Nineteen: death from a thousand pin pricks

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.

ti tidy hi beamHigh 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.

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Ti Tidy 18: The light at the end of the wire

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.

ti tidy 18 fuse boxFuse 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.

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TI tidy seventeen: lots and lots of wires

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:

wiring toolsThis 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?

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Market 133: Baby Blue Spider Normale

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.

spider 09766 cornerThere 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.

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Pixar’s Motorama 2009

Pixar’s Motorama is pretty cool. The fact that a corporation would even expend resources on an event like this in todays world of disappearing perks is hard to believe. Pixar’s grounds are perfect for this sort of thing -from the long and wide, tree-shaded approach to reception, seemingly meant to be lined with cars, to the grassy knoll they set up for dining, to the spacious atrium where motorcycles, scooters and Bicycles can be put on display and one can escape the elements -someone knew what they were doing when they designed this space.

Monteverdi HaiThis 1970 Monteverdi Hai 450SS is currently in Fantasy Junction’s inventory at a little over a million dollars. FJ is about 100 yards form Pixar so they roll a couple cars over every year. Metallic purple/pink with white interior. There aren’t rock stars these days worthy of a car like this. Jeff imagines Robert Plant circa 1974 in a fur coat on Sunset Blvd could pull this car off.

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a browse of the pictures on my back up drive

I’ve had a few cars in the 20 years I’ve been old enough to drive and if I don’t get this down soon I will forget how it went down. I had a 1965 Mustang Fastback in high school, I know where it is and every once in a while think about trying to get it back. My parents bought it in 1969 and sold it to my uncle in the late 70’s. A Toyota FJ40 of 1969 Vintage for $350 sat in my moms driveway for a while and it was sold to fund a 1971 Citroen DS21. The DS was replaced by a 1979 Mercury Capri Turbo my grandfather gave me. These were all pre-internet, pre-digital camera cars and I don’t have pictures of them that I can find. The Capri gave way to an 87 Honda CRX HF.

sprite003Sprite 30169 Bought from Mark, driven on California Melee’s 1999 & 2000, pictured in Road and track story on Melee (Feb 2000?), commuter from SF to Marin by Mrs. Giulietta’s. My first Engine rebuild, Sold to scooter guy Mason, fixed up a bit then sold on eBay. Where is it now?

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Market 131: Dad’s Giulietta SS, #455 up for sale

Update 7/20/2009.  Car sold for $27,102 making my SS project seem insanely overpriced and ambitious.  I say this car was very well bought and will probably represent a bargain, then again, I haven’t seen a really strong verifiably sold SS in a while, perhaps the market has cooled.  What do you think?

Giulietta Sprint Speciale 10120*00455, 00120*00964. This car is on eBay right now out of Florida from the son of the long time owner. Condition is to my eyes enviable as I like the archaeological aspects of cleaning up a car that has been off the road for awhile. This car is the perfect example of what ‘easy restoration’ should mean.

!BWQ4pQwCGk~$(KGrHgoOKjsEjlLmVqugBKWlzhPZKQ~~_1It’s an SS, of course it’s good looking. All the nose trim looks well fitted and correct. White is a good color on these cars. Note windshield trim is missing.

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