750 and 101 series cars 1954 – 1965
Giulietta SS 10120.  Henrik sent me a link to this car selling out of Germany, with a note of surprise at the 255,000 Euro price tag.  Anyone know which car it is, or have any other pictures?
Could be 00001 or 00002 with a grill fitted. Â I think 00002 is more likely.
Update 12/12/12: Â What are the chances this car is available now on Autotrader for $17,000? Â Not much I would bet. Â Thanks Mark for pointing this scam out!
Update 7/12: Â Car sold for a little over $60,000.
Giulietta Spider Veloce 10107*167647, 00106*01234. This car is on eBay right now out of Georgia by a reputable seller usually dealing in Maserati’s. The car is tidy, complete and functional and would likely suit the buyer looking for something they can use without worry and improve when the fit takes them.
Lovely. White suits the Spider very well. All the trim, fit and finish is nice. Sellers got a nice driveway!
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The recent listing for Sprint 20753 prompted Greg to send me the email I attached below. Â 45 years have passed since he sold 20377 and he wonders what it has been up to. Â Anyone have 20377 in their garage or know who does? Â I have 20379 in my garage, but they haven’t kept in touch…
I can be reached at sprints @ giuliettas.com if you do.
There’s something magical about an old picture of the cars we love. Â This one is from the late -1960’s. Â I went through my family albums and there are NO pictures of my dads old truck at all from 40 years of ownership. Â I like the fog lights on this car.
Update 12/8/12:Â Still available. Â Surprised? Â Me neither. Â This is a long uphill slog with a boulder on your back. Â You would have to be a lucky guy who bought a project that came with an extra cars worth of trim etc.
Update 2/12/12: Elmar informs me this car has been relisted by Laurent with a reduced asking price of €8,900. No less a crazy project!
French build plate. Positive ID. Someone somewhere will decide this is worth fixing. Eventually.
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12/24/12:Â Tough to say whether it’s just right or a bargain at $27,100 -but if they overpaid, it couldn’t have been by much.
12/7/12: Giulietta Spider 10103*170763. Â This car is available now on eBay. It is nice enough but unremarkable. The description, though verbose, doesn’t say much about the car and the pictures are way to small to do anything but tease. Both leave a lot to the imagination -a tactic no doubt, because most people fill in the missing information with imaginings that add up to an impression of what they want to see rather than what is there. Regardless, the price is still low and if it’s as rust free as described, it wouldn’t take much to turn it into a very nice car.
All the pictures have this ‘a little too close’ air and saturated color. Â Does look nice though -so desired effect achieved. Â Infinitely better to start here than a rusty hulk.
Update 12/12/12: Â Listing ended -no bids. Â So it goes.
Giulietta Sprint 10105 1493*20753.  This car is on eBay right now out of Illinois from a 0 feedback seller who has 5 cars on offer -the other four being modern Italian exotica. This Sprint looks very nice, and will certainly satisfy someone looking for a sporty 1950’s Italian coupe, but the purists out there will give it some rough treatment – especially at nearly $40,000 asking. Â
Body and trim looks great. Â Grills appear to have had the ‘chip-cutter’ portions removed and these home-made horizontal bars added. Â Nice mirror.
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Update 12/12/12: Â No sale at $15K. Â I’m sure we haven’t heard the last. Â Note that it is new information that it has engine 1315*32058 – a Veloce engine. Â Would like to see a picture of the block stamping.
Update 11/26/12: Â This car has turned up on eBay again. Â Still doesn’t look like a bad car, but it is wrong in some key areas that are keeping the price low.
Update 7/1/12: Seems like it should have been bid up higher…
Giulietta Spider 10103 1495*08586. This car is available on eBay from Chequered Flag, frequent purveyors of classics. Car is restored to mostly original with some ‘as fits the owner’ condition additions. Mostly good, but with some deviations from stock that beg for a definition of ‘restored’. At least the asking price is not overly inflated.
In the tradition of red. Body looks pretty good, as does the trim. It’s easy to nit pick a nice car, but easy to forget it’s hard to get one this far. Put that top down already!
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Update 11/13/12: This guy has turned up on eBay out of Arizona. Fancy that – the auction is starting at $45,000. Still a nice car.
Red, tidy and ready for action. Door shut lines are almost invisible. Hood fits better than usual.
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I got this FISPA (TIPO: FATS 5032, DISEGNO: 9815) air filter canister from a reader as sort of partial payment for helping sell a car. I thought it would be right for my Sprint but it turns out it’s got a slightly different shape than another one I had on hand for a Sprint.
Applications: I decided to check the parts book and found there are three versions of this part. If anyone has an original older Sprint or Spider I’d be interested in hearing which box you have.
Failure mode: rusts out, stabilizing mount to valve cover Splits, it gets lost.
Current state of parts: Classic Alfa UK sells a new repro. eBay usually has a one listed in need of restoration for about $400.
Notes: Early versions seem to have a bolt instead of the loop (part 11 below) for tightening to the top of the carb. I have seen several sorts of FISPA labels, from a stamped metal plate to a screened on decal. Bill Gillham has repro’s of some of these.
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The car I’m working on will eventually retire to a leisurely life in Washington -a state well known for its rainfall. As such, I decided a good forced air system to heat the cabin and defog the windscreen was a good idea. I have the original fan impeller mounted on a modern motor in my Sprint and it works okay -you can feel a little moving air, but it’s not very impressive (admittedly most of my ducting is leaky original BS or ill-fitting replacement BS, so maybe an unfair test). Anyway, I was perusing the McMaster catalog when I found a 4″, 12 volt all-in-one in-line blower fan.
Applications: Sprint and sprint Veloce.
Failure mode: electric motor failure.
Current state of parts: repair original or find something to adapt in place of the original.
This is where the Air intake plenum lives. It’s designed to act as a ram-air and I imagine at over about 40 mph the air forced in is moving faster than the original fan could push it in. The rest under here looks pretty nice…
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