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Market 197: Bring a Trailer Exclusive Giulia 1600 Spider

Update 6/11/10: Is anyone surprised that this car had a hard time selling for $34,000, sold for a chunk less and now has turned up in Texas at DriveSource for $32,500?  I’m not.  I stand by my assertion that you have one (or if you are lucky two) chances to sell a car for a really good price and whether you wear the buying public out with multiple ebay auctions or stand by a slightly unrealistic price for a few months, you create a sense of undesireability or flaw -deserved or not, that makes potential buyers think something must be wrong with the car if it hasn’t sold.  DriverSource has put some effort into the car and it really looks great these days, and I can say -having seen this car in person on the Lap of Marin not long ago, that it is a nice car, so maybe this car will find a happy home soon.

This car has been polished to within an inch of its’ life.  Cool!  I still think the windshield wipers sit way too high on the glass. 

Original post 3/5/10: Giulia Spider 1600 10123*392337, 00112*15937.  As usual Bring a Trailer has the drop on a cool car and have brought it to market exclusive style, this time in the form of this very late Giulia Spider.  It’s located in the San Francisco Bay Area and looks to be a pretty nice example.  $34,000 must be spent to own it, -top of the private seller market,  which means it must be test driven and inspected in person -rather the opposite of a chore. 

Nice car in a nice setting.  These late Spiders are solid reliable and fun, so where better to drive it than among the vines.  Mirrors are a little more forward than usual. Continue reading “Market 197: Bring a Trailer Exclusive Giulia 1600 Spider”

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Market 224: Giulia SS in Austria

Giulia Sprint Speciale 10121*381221, 00121*01213.  This car is for sale in Austria on Mobile.de.  It has some odd wrong parts on it but overall is in good shape.  It can be yours for 49,900 Euro’s or $60,800… quite a bit less in the dollar world that this time last year.

Good looking clean example of a fairly late model SS.  Hood fits great and all the trim is present and needs nothing.  Europe has some big license plates!

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Market 223: 101 Spider Normale project

Update 6/15/10: $12,634.01, reserve not met was the outcome.  Has not been relisted so maybe the high bidder and seller are working something out.

Giulietta Spider 10104 1495*08359, 1315*011500. This neglected but otherwise solid Spider project is on eBay right now out of Illinois.  Car is said to be a long time Arizona car which bodes well for those worried about rust -Arizona is very dry.  If you’re looking for a DIY project this might just be the car for you.

How you want to find them: straight bodies, paint you could live with almost indefinitely, about complete and untouched for years (whitewalls provide evidence of this).

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Market 222: Spider prototype 750D 00007

Update 8/13/10: Sold and on its way to Milan.

Update 7/6/10: Spider did 2 tours of eBay with no takers.  A purchase like this requires some serious non-coincidental provenance corroboration so I’m not surprised it didn’t sell.  I think as I state at the end of the market review that this car needs to go through an auction that can authenticate it if the seller wants this kind of money.

Giulietta Spider 750D 1495*00007, 1315*40009. This Spider, one of the Pininfarina prototypes, is available now on eBay for $225,000.  I have no real side by side comparison to make any comment on the value of this car but would say that the asking is in line with what I would ask if I had it.

Why? I think the Bertone Spiders (00002 and 00004) are probably million+ dollar cars these days. Pininfarina Spider 00001 (or is it 00003?), now residing at the Alfa museum and 00005 (I think), in the hands of the collector who also has the Bertone Sprint convertible and SVZ ‘Goccia’, both having the wrap around windscreen and side-curtain style windows are probably $300,000 – a million.  Official numbering of the Spiders started in the mid-teens in Fusi and the cars between those mentioned above and 00016, the first production car, are likely similar to this car and close to the production models cars and hence not as valuable, maybe $100k to $500K depending on lots of stuff.  I seem to recall having seen two or three other pre-production  Spiders like this but can’t remember where.  Early race history usually adds value but I can’t say for sure if it does for a car like this.

As an aside, there is a chance that Ghia made a Giulietta Spider prototype.  Anyone know anything about this?

I guess what I am saying is that in my opinion, the more the prototypes diverge from the standard cars, the more they are worth and this car is fairly close to the production version.  Condition is the kind of ‘nice original driver’ I prefer.

Mythical beast: one of the Pininfarina prototypes.  ‘Points’ on the grill tusks are the only visual cue that you are seeing anything special here, beyond your usual 750D.

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The rear view mirror II

As part of my push to just get the Giulietta SS on the road and to satisfy a momentary curiosity piqued when I unpacked the Giulia SS, I got my rearview mirrors together and compared the parts.  As you can see it is true that these two are exactly the same.  Plan was to make the best unrestored mirror I could from the parts on hand, see if there were any parts I was missing and get a sense of the work required to have a restored mirror be the end result.  I’m not missing any parts and to have a restored mirror I need to:  Get the body re-wrinkle finished (~$5 can), get the base and surround rechromed (~$100) , get the glass resilvered (~$20) and put it all together.

Assembled and parts side by side for comparison.  The disassembled one came with the Giulia SS, the other was an eBay purchase.

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Market 221: 750D roller

Update 6/5/10: $1276.51.  Not a bad buy considering it’s on suspension.

Giulietta Spider 750D 1495*03746. This partial car is on eBay right now out of Colebrook NH.  Seller says ‘pick up only’ which narrows the field considerably.  I bet this thing ends up on a truck.  Car is $152.50 at time of writing.

Looks like the usual yard art turns eBay auction turns project.  Presence of tires holding air and not being at odd angles to each other is good.  Originally gray?  Nose is only a little beat.

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Market 220: 750 ‘Spyder’ Veloce

Update 5/24/10: Check out this picture of the 750F list in d’A & T.  I would think it’s a Veloce.  This car doesn’t make any sense to be $40K as a normale… more like $28k.

Giulietta Spider Veloce 750F 1495*05388, 1315*013679. This car is listed right now at Fantasy Junction for $39,500 and described as being a Veloce conversion but this chassis number is listed in d’Amico and Tabucchi as a 1958 Spider Veloce and I will assume they are correct.

So far so good.  Grill eyebrows are missing but that’s not a big deal to sort out if you want.  Drivers side grill tusk looks a little crooked.  Hood fits good and everything says ‘driver’.

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Market 219: Some Sprints in Salt Lake city

Giulietta Sprints. If you’re quick you can call and try and buy these two Sprints.  One is a Veloce, both are pretty rough.  I talked to a guy that talked to the seller and it sounds like the seller is fishing for as much money as possible… not that that’s not what I would do.  Check Craigslist.

It’s pictures like this that make me think there are a lot of survivors.  Nose has had a decent poke.  Probably better than it looks in the picture.

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Market 218: Nice original Giulia SS at auction

Giulia SS 10121*381349.  On June 6th in Greenwich CT Bonhams will hold an auction and among the lots is Lot 437, one 1965 Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint Speciale with a claimed 33,000 miles on the odometer and a fairly clean, original appearance.  Estimate is $40,000 – $60,000, which ranges from realistic to slightly optimistic but not out of the question.

This is a good looking car.  Door gaps are invisible, ride height is perfect, bright work and paint are very nice.  I’d lose that front license plate in a hurry.

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