This friendly looking chap is Spider 1495*00002, the first of two Giulietta Spider prototypes designed by Scaglione and built by Bertone. The top two pictures of it are from the mid 1970’s when it was in the Bobcor showroom that I found on google images, not sure who’s they are but would love to hear from the photographer.
It is said that Alfa deemed the design a little too futuristic for their clientele and Bertone went back to the drawing board and 1495*00004 emerged. Can you imagine if this car made regular production? I would have called it the Spider Speciale and fitted it with a Veloce kit. Alas what could have been…
Strong personality of Scaglione shows through and ques from cousins the BAT cars, Sportiva and SS can be seen. Also evident is front trim and headlight treatments destined for a home on the Duetto.
I found this picture somewhere on someones blog. If I saw this on a trailer headed some where when I was on the way to my best friends wedding I’d be late for the wedding. This I believe is the Colli version, the Promiscua.
Very very classy in white with chrome accents. I think I underestimate how cool these cars look in white. This example is keeping company with some serious cars here.
As always, the teaser picture is actually the near final product. This carb looks pretty good but required $130 in new parts from my local Weber parts dealer. With the phenolic insulator block taking up about 6mm you can see the mounting nuts don’t fully engage the studs. Oh well, this is not a suspension component.
Here’s the new pipe mounted to the manifold with the asbestos heat shield bent out of the way. The oil pressure line is very close to the header with the heat shield in between. I plan on seeing if the pressure line can be bent or turned on the banjo bolt.
This is the before shot. I had been messing around with an old Weber so I had some fresh carb cleaner handy to clean the goo off the outside.
There is a line that was crossed here, but at least it wasn’t made from a TZ2 or something. I actually like the shape of the couch and would gladly put that in my house. Note the hubcap clock. 
1493*26018 is not only 67 cars older than the next car, it is photographed in the same spot. There are some event stickers on the quarter window which if nothing else indicate this car drives well enough to do a few hundred miles.
These are the Giulieta items fresh from the media blast cabinet. These are contoured at the top to follow the curve of the windshield/dash intersection. The clamp up top is a cotter pin style and was used to clamp the defroster hose to the vent.
Some rust and crust can be seen here, but I don’t think it’s too bad. I pulled the seal and that weird washer that allows flow through the array of holes under the seal out and set to work with various implements to clean it up.