Giulietta Spider 750D 1495*07183, 1315*45807. Another fabulous Giulietta out of Germany, this Spider is available from Wunscholdtimer for 39,500 Euro’s or about $52,000 at the time of writing. A lot of money but a very nice, original appearing Spider.
This car looks to have either been extremely well cared for since new or it’s an older restoration. The paint is great but some of the interior and engine compartment components lack the luster expected of a ‘new’ restoration. This is about as nice as I’d want a car to be. Front end looks amazing.
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Market 239: Giulietta Spider 750D 05488
8/11/10: No more beating around the bush -the car has been listed for $35K ‘buy it now’ or ‘make offer’. Throw an offer their way between the last high bid and the asking and maybe it can be yours.
8/10/10: 19 bids saw this car make $22,200 but the reserve was not met. Seller says they have the correct seats which is a plus. This car will probably be relisted and reach about the same high bid. I’m beginning to think eBay is not really suited for cars like this.
Giulietta Spider 750D 1495*05488, 1315*44524. This car is on eBay right now out of South Carolina. Condition is along the lines of well cared for drivers with some hidden blemishes and unoriginal parts -seats the most glaring feature in this category.
Hood fit is good, paint looks okay but not great. Trim -especially bumpers is presentable but not excellent. Just my kind of car!
Market 244: Early Spider at Gooding auction
Update 8/26/10: So, word is this car sold somewhere in the mid-$70K’s to a rich guy from Mexico. Rumor? I’ll try and find out.
Giulietta Spider 750D 1495*00724, 1315*40670. Gooding and Co. will be auctioning this 1956 Spider off at their Pebble Beach auction held August 14th and 15th. There is no reserve and the selling price is expected to be $70,000 – $90,000. Big money, but as the auction text states, this car is ‘striking’, ‘eligible’, ‘iconic’ and ‘superb’ -the full thesaurus treatment. I occurs to me that if this car makes money in the stated range it will be the most expensive production 750D recorded.
Paint looks amazing as do the shut-lines and trim. Stance is about perfect. Someone spent some money.
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Market 227: Needy Spider Roller 09363
Update 6/24/10: Is $8601.50 a good deal for this car? Â Not sure, but that’s what it sold for. Â I’d like to see a little less rust for that money, but it is nearly complete.
Giulietta Spider 10103/4 09363, 00102*25390. This Spider is on eBay right now out of Illinois from a seller who seems to always have a few Giulietta bits on offer. Â Condition is the usual straight clean car with some race history that was allowed to get rusty during a period of neglect. Â Bidding is just shy of $5K as I write.
Nose is in good shape, hood fits well and the original paint was probably salvagable before rust was allowed to snack on this car. I wonder what the ‘CP’ racing group is?
Market 154: Another Spider roller, this time a 101
Update 1/27/10: Well wonder no more, this car is now on Italian eBay for 8900 Euros or $12,478 at time of writing. I guess a trip across the Atlantic and the addition of a mystery 750 engine adds $9500. I’m in the wrong business.
Update 10/20/09: 11 bids got this thing to $3100. Not bad for a rolling shell. The lack of rust had me thinking $4000. I wonder where it is headed?
Giulietta Spider 10103 1495*10862. This car is on eBay right now out of Livorna New York. There are at least 2 eBay sellers that regularly post vintage Alfa parts for sale form this town. This car is pretty similar body-wise to the subject of Market 153, but doesn’t come with much in the way of parts if they’re not seen in the pictures and attached to the car.
Looks about average really for one of these that has been off the road for ever and picked over by vultures during that time. Nose sheetmetal is rough but I’ve seen and owned rougher.   There are a lot of little parts here, so it could be worse.
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Market 177: 1600 Spider “precisely restored to correct factory standards”
Update 1/24/10 (2010/01/24 for you non-US based date readers): This car sold for $75,000 plus 10% buyers premium. Â This is very strong money -above and beyond what anyone I have run into estimated. Â Reminds me of the Triumph TR4 that sold at auction a few years ago for $100K. Â As I mentioned below, there are people for whom this kind of money is lunch money, and they only want perfect cars. Â I wonder if it would have even made a difference if it was a 1600 Veloce. Â Maybe a little is my guess.
Giulia Spider 1600 10123*379814, 00112*12842. This Spider will be auctioned off by Gooding Company at their Scottdale Az. Auction happening Jan. 22nd and 23rd. Description is rich with details and as I read it I imagine Allen De Cadenet reading it to me while powering around a circuit in it with is hair blowing around and the exhaust note just loud enough that he has to raise his voice. Let’s have a look at this “precisely restored to correct factory standards” car.
So far so good, looking amazing in professionally photographed ripose. Door and hood fit very well, trim is all symmetrical, shiny and to a matched standard with the red paint. I never saw one at the dealer, but I’m willing to bet this is better than new. Continue reading “Market 177: 1600 Spider “precisely restored to correct factory standards””
Spider Market review 2009
It has been on my mind as I write the other 2009 market reviews that the Spider review is going to take some time to complete, there having been a lot of Spider sales in 2009. I am thinking this will be my longest post ever. I think this will be helpful to anyone buying, selling or trying to figure out the future value of restoration work. Enjoy!
Market 39 was 10104 1495*11267, selling for $2025 after a year of eBay runs. I think the difficulty with this car was location and portability. How do you transport a car from an absolute middle of nowhere dirt road that doesn’t have wheels or even axles to mount them on? Continue reading “Spider Market review 2009”
Market 166: Scruffy but nice early Spider
Giulietta Spider 1495*02713. This car has been on Bringatrailer, Craigslist and Alfa BB. It may be still available, but I doubt it. This car is a 1957 which makes it elligible for events not open to 58 and later cars. Car is in San Diego and asking price of $14,000 is reasonable if it needs as little as the sellers description indicates. I am primarily adding this car for posterity.
This is how you like to find them. Straight, dry and in need of the kind of improvement that is fun to do between drives. Hood and door fit looks excellent. I don’t see any evidence of rust.
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Market 165: Used car lot Interim Spider -nice!
Update 11/30/09: 21 bidders, $27,000, reserve met. A good result!
Giulietta Spider 10103*10786. This car is on eBay right now out of Illinois. Car is an interim car falling right in the middle of 1960 production range for 10103 Spiders. Title year being one after production is the norm for these cars in the US. Car is said to be all restored and from a long time (28 years) owner.
The source of my title: the big 61 used car lot style window sticker. Front of the car looks great. Hood fits perfectly, chrome is exemplary and paint looks wet it’s so shiny. Wipers are higher on the windshield than I would recommend. At this height they would chatter in the wind and scuff the glass.
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Market 163: Interim Spider racer project
Update 12/5/09: This car sold for $5000 even. Seemingly the new norm for incomplete unremarkable Giulietta Spider rollers.
Giulietta Spider 1495*09110. This car is on eBay right now from a seller in the north east US who seems to have a lot of Giulietta stuff in their barn. This car is said to have been a long time race car, but seems to only be stickers, stripes and a roll bar away from being your usual remainder of a parted out Spider- very solid and rust free remainder I should add.
Race number might help explain why it ended up years later stripped on anything of value and sold off. Front looks tough with the bumper brackets and blanks where the signal lights go. Certainly sits low for a car with no engine, supporting the race car claim.