750 and 101 series cars 1954 – 1965
Giulietta Spider Veloce 10125*10642. Alejandro made me aware that this car is available now out of Florida from a listing on the Alfa BB. It’s a US market Spider Veloce and would have had an 00106 series engine with 40DCOE’s rather than 40DCO3’s.
I like how pictures like this force you to look differently at something since it’s orientation is unusual. This nose looks pretty good. One would want to touch and knock on it for bondo, but they all seem to have it.
What does every shitty Glas GT project need? That’s right. A parts car. I placed notices around here and there on forums for a parts car and sure enough, one turned up. This car is a very very late in the production run car, and very very rusty. Money was slight -almost trivial really, and it has that ‘ran when parked’ look to it, though it’s been a while. I spent most of my day taking it apart. Viva la full set of rims!
Yea -or is that yikes? The good? It’s all there. The bad, it’s 200 pounds lighter than a stock Glas GT due to metal loss on the underside. The ugly? It was a low miles nice original car before it fell into the wrong hands.
Continue reading “Glas 1700 GT: One is the loneliest number…”
Update 12/31/11: Sold for $30,100!
Giulietta Spider Veloce 750F 1495*02264, 1315*30740. Brad pointed out that this car just popped up on eBay out of Connecticut. As far as Spider Veloce projects goes, this car just about has it all -1957 build date, matching numbers, correct intake system including 40DCO3’s, seats with tracks, moderate rust, and overall decent completeness. It’s still a project, and as such maybe a road to ruin, but among projects, it’s not too bad.
Looks like a really good car -maybe wax it, vacuum the spiders out of the engine compartment, iron the carpets and away you go. Hood fit is really good.
Continue reading “Market 355: Barn find Spider Veloce 02264”
Giulietta Spider Veloce 750F 1495*01925. This car is available now out of Portugal. It sports a 101 normal 1300 engine and looks okay. Asking price is 42,000 euro’s -a bit high for what is seen in the pictures. Looks like maybe the same seller as the vent window Sprint in Portugal.
Looks decent here -red paint is lustrous, red and uniform. Rear view mirror looks correct -really, no big alarm bells. I doubt that hard top is a Pininfarina original.
Continue reading “Market 354: 750 Spider Veloce 01925 in Portugal”
Giulietta Spider 750F 1495*03317, 1315*30772 (missing), 1315*45283 (now). Wow, I just spent 15 minutes looking to see if I wrote about this car before -time to organize my files!! This car is available now from Ghibli Auto Classiche e Sportive in Italy. Conditon is not so good, but it’s a Veloce and it’s in the land where all the spare parts seem to be headed.
Looking so-so. Parts are present. I want to start an ‘as found’ movement, where you get a car like this, make it work, and use it looking like this. Would be fun and boost Tetanus shot sales.Â
Continue reading “Market 353: Spider Veloce project 03317 in Italy”
Giulietta Sprint 1300 10102*385833. This car is available now from Luzzago in Roncadella, Brescia. Color combo on this one is one of my favorites, the condition is very good, and the asking price is 25,000 Euro -about $32,500 at the time of writing. This car is one of the last few Giulietta’s made -production ending at 386000.
I see this blue on a lot of 2600 Sprints, 105 GT’s, TI’s and Supers. I might have to paint the Glas this color. This all looks impeccable.
Continue reading “Market 352: Gorgeous Sprint 385833 in Italy”
Giulietta Sprint 10102*350182. This car is listed on Anamera and is available now out of the Netherlands. It is described as a good runner/driver that needs some detail work to make it perfect. Price is 19,500 Euro’s, a little less than $25,500 at the time of writing.
Car was imported from the USA in 1992 and repainted then. Looks pretty good. Suspension is a little high in the front. Wears original white Carello turn signal lenses.
Giulia Spider 1600. Kip sent me the link to this car on Craigslist. It’s rough, but only $3000. Probably sold by now!
The great American yard find. Note blue tarp and kid in the back ground.
Continue reading “Market 350: cheap Craigslist Spider in Washington -better hurry!!”
Giulietta Spider 10103*370837. This car is available now from DriverSource in Texas. It wears an aging red respray, has some loose ends to tidy and is said to run and drive well. Ask is $34,900 -on the high side for a car with a dash this scruffy -but who knows…
Looks amazing here -but who wouldn’t with that backdrop. Front rim is a Borrani, rear is a Fergat.Â
Update 12/17/11: I’m still a little skeptical, but this car seems to have surfaced as a restored example in France for 32,000 Euro or $41,600. I’ve compared pictures and the drivers side mirror, gauges and shift knob look the same between both. What do you think? If it sold for $12,000, cost $2000 to get it to Europe, that leaves $27,000 to fix it up and try and make money over 18 months. If all it needed was rust repair, a respray and some catalog parts, maybe they’ll make money. I suppose it really begs the question of corners cut.
Lots of pictures to compare here.
No visual cues yet that it’s the same car.
Same wood shifter knob and yellowed tri-gauge. Neither is a rare thing. Interior looks okay -seat covers are wrong.
Other than being a lot cleaner, it could be the same engine compartment. Same radiator cap?
Update 11/11/09: This car has turned up at Steuel in the Netherlands. Price is not 11,500 Euro ($17,200 while the dollar lasts as the semi-universal currency). Let’s see, $1000 to get it across the water, add a few thou’ to it and the makings of a living can be seen. I’m surprised the hardtop wasn’t removed and sold separately.
Giulia Spider 375838 finds itself in a new country with a new language to learn and in the hands of people who have seen way worse rust.
Update 6/16/09: Amazing what can happen on eBay. This car ended at $12,200 with 22 bidders this time around. That is almost double what it reached last time with the same amount of bidders. Maybe someone really wanted the hard top! This car is in many ways not as nice as my car that I am asking $4000. I guess it’s time to put it on eBay.
Update 6/8/09: Apparently not sold, this car is once again on eBay though the seller has a different ID, not sure what that is about. Current bid is higher than the previous selling price and it’s only been on half a day. Seller has another Spider project, earlier, not as complete and a Veloce, that was listed at the same time. I think I would space the listings out if it were me, but there seems to be no shortage of Spider projects so it probably wouldn’t help.
Sorry about the lack of postings, I’ve been busy with other stuff and WordPress has been taking a LONG time to do/load anything so I get frustrated. Must be the large amount of stuff I have saved on their site.
Update 3/19/09: Car sold for $6250 with 22 bids. Probably well bought when everything is considered, especially the hard top.
Giulia Spider 1600 101.23 AR375858, Engine AR00502*15806 (Sprint GT). This little gem available on eBay right now out of Carlsbad California (near San Diego) re enforces the notion that ‘it’s always something’. Here we see a promising start with a complete car wearing very straight trim, a factory hard top, California Black Plates and a Sprint GT engine. While the engine is not original, with these ‘regular’ Spiders it doesn’t really matter so long as it runs. The something? This car is pretty rusty where it matters.
I could see just making this thing run and drive and then using it rusty bumpers (or no bumpers) and all. From this picture it looks like Carello’s chrome is longer lasting than Alfas and the grill eyebrows make me think it all should be stainless.
Continue reading “Market 95: 1600 Spider project in Carlsbad”