{"id":15434,"date":"2008-07-11T11:42:37","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T18:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/giuliettas.wordpress.com\/?p=657"},"modified":"2008-07-11T11:42:37","modified_gmt":"2008-07-11T18:42:37","slug":"giulietta-sprint-accessories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rufushamilton.com\/giuliettas\/2008\/07\/11\/giulietta-sprint-accessories\/","title":{"rendered":"Giulietta Sprint Accessories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I went shopping for a modern car last year I was surprised by the number of accessories available, the fact that cars came pre-optioned for the most part, and how expensive additional accessories were.\u00a0 Accessories are nothing new when it comes to cars, windows and lights were accessories in the early days!\u00a0 The Giuliettas were no exception and the picture below, from a 1958 brochure, reprinted\u00a0in the Alfieri book shows some interesting accessories that could be missed by the casual observer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/giuliettas.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/07\/1958special1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-658\" src=\"http:\/\/giuliettas.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/07\/1958special1.jpg?w=300&#038;resize=300%2C196\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a><strong>&#8220;Fog lamps fittings. It can be ordered as a seperate unit complete with mounting brackets and hollow intake fairing, painted in the colour of the car. Please specify No. of chassis.&#8221; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Note that the car above is not an &#8216;Eyebrow&#8217; car but a later 101 style body.\u00a0 There is another subtle accessory on this car which, unless you know Sprints, you may not notice.\u00a0 This car has vent windows!\u00a0 I have never seen a picture that was recently taken of a Sprint with either of the above accessories with the exception of the SS below.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-64\" src=\"http:\/\/giuliettas.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/05\/dsc03117.jpg?w=300&#038;resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rufushamilton.com\/giuliettas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/dsc03117.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rufushamilton.com\/giuliettas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/dsc03117.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><strong>Looks pretty neat with vent windows.\u00a0 These were an option for Spiders too.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The foglamp kit is pretty\u00a0cool since it incorporates the earlier style grill bars painted in body color with the 101 style grill surrounds.\u00a0 Are there boxes of\u00a0unsold kits\u00a0hidden away in Bertone&#8217;s basement?\u00a0 The foglamps look like Hella 128 or Marchal 650 items to me but I don&#8217;t know if Alfa would be equiping it&#8217;s cars with either of these at this point since headlights and taillights were Carello.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Have you seen a Sprint recently with either of these accessories?\u00a0 Let me know! <a href=\"mailto:sprints@giuliettas.com\">sprints@giuliettas.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I went shopping for a modern car last year I was surprised by the number of accessories available, the fact that cars came pre-optioned for the most part, and how expensive additional accessories were.\u00a0 Accessories are nothing new when it comes to cars, windows and lights were accessories in the early days!\u00a0 The Giuliettas &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rufushamilton.com\/giuliettas\/2008\/07\/11\/giulietta-sprint-accessories\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Giulietta Sprint Accessories&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,11],"tags":[114,118,151,178],"class_list":["post-15434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-giulietta-accessories","category-history","tag-cars","tag-classic-cars","tag-italian-cars","tag-vintage-cars"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rufushamilton.com\/giuliettas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rufushamilton.com\/giuliettas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rufushamilton.com\/giuliettas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rufushamilton.com\/giuliettas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rufushamilton.com\/giuliettas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rufushamilton.com\/giuliettas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rufushamilton.com\/giuliettas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rufushamilton.com\/giuliettas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rufushamilton.com\/giuliettas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}