{"id":4703,"date":"2009-09-03T08:05:43","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T15:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/giuliettas.com\/?p=4703"},"modified":"2009-09-03T08:05:43","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T15:05:43","slug":"market-142-restored-1600-spider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rufushamilton.com\/giuliettas\/2009\/09\/03\/market-142-restored-1600-spider\/","title":{"rendered":"Market 142: restored 1600 Spider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Update 10\/12\/09:\u00a0 <\/strong>An offer of $30,000 has been accepted for this car.\u00a0 Well bought?\u00a0 Well sold?\u00a0 Who knows, I&#8217;m just surprised the seller got $1000 more than the Buy iy Now price from the first time around.\u00a0 Nice work!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update 9\/16\/09:\u00a0 <\/strong>After failing to attract a bid at $29,000 the seller has <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/ebaymotors\/Alfa-Romeo-Spider-Giulia-1966-Alfa-Romeo-Giulia-Spider-1600-giulietta_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp3286Q2ec0Q2em14QQhashZitem53dd00daf9QQitemZ360190106361QQptZUSQ5fCarsQ5fTrucks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">relisted<\/a> this car with the ante upped to $35,000.\u00a0 Makes perfect sense to me&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Giulia 10123*379928, 00112*11686.\u00a0 <\/strong>This car is on <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/ebaymotors\/Alfa-Romeo-Spider-Giulia-1966-Alfa-Romeo-Giulia-Spider-1600-giulietta_W0QQitemZ360185020340QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUS_Cars_Trucks?hash=item53dcb33fb4&amp;_trksid=p4506.c0.m245#v4-31\">eBay right now <\/a>with an opening bid\/Buy it Now\u00a0price of $29,000.\u00a0 The car has 7000 miles on a restoration.\u00a0 The mechanical specification is impressive and if everything is as stated, this is retail price for a good car.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not excited about the red paint, but would rather have a no nonsense usable car in a color I am not excited about than a car that needs a lot of TLC in a color I love.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4704\" title=\"Alfa 1600 Spider 101\" src=\"http:\/\/giuliettas.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/bzhboygbmkkgrhgoh-eejlll0tjbkneffb4sw_12.jpeg?w=300&#038;resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"Alfa 1600 Spider 101\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rufushamilton.com\/giuliettas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/bzhboygbmkkgrhgoh-eejlll0tjbkneffb4sw_12.jpeg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rufushamilton.com\/giuliettas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/bzhboygbmkkgrhgoh-eejlll0tjbkneffb4sw_12.jpeg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Paint looks great, as does trim and shut lines.\u00a0 I need a set of these headlight rings!\u00a0 From this angle and with this camera it looks like it&#8217;s peering out of a goldfish bowl.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/giuliettas.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/bzhboygbmkkgrhgoh-eejlll0tjbkneffb4sw_12.jpeg\">[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PI8vS1NceTY&amp;eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fvi%2Eebaydesc%2Ecom%2Febaymotors%2Fws%2FeBayISAPI%2Edll%3FViewItemDescV4%26item%3D360185020340%26t%3D1245642967000%26ds%3D0%26js%3D%2D1%26ssid%3D100%26seller%3Dl&amp;feature=player_embedded]<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Auction description: <strong>&#8220;1966 ALFA ROMEO GIULIA SPIDER 1600 with some veloce parts.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Engine # AR0011211686 odometer reads 76375, Complete Restoration with aprox 7000miles since restoration.<br \/>\nRebuilt Engine, new pistons &amp; liners, regrinded crank with new bearings &amp; chains, valve job with street racing cams, Two 40mm Dellorto carburetors , electronic distributor, Veloce Headers, GTA Clutch pressure plate, rebuilt radiator, new battery, Performance suspension with 4 performance lowering springs, rear end straps, Front disc brakes, rear brake shoes, new brake master cylinder.<\/p>\n<p>Exterior, This car was in storage for 30 years in California, I bought it aprox 2 years ago &amp; paid high price. The body was overall in good cond with only a couple of small rust holes, one on the front passenger side floor and one near the rear back seat. The rest of the sheet metal including the rocker panels &amp; original jack points where in great shape. It was strip to the metal &amp; repainted mille miglia red aprox 2 years ago.<br \/>\nAll the chrome was redone, interior redone, new spare tire boot, top frame is installed but has no canvas top. Nice interior gauges &amp; radio, 5 Borini Rims with new tires, new hub caps, new alfa brass emblem.<\/p>\n<p>This Giulia is a great car that handles &amp; drives excellent, it is not mint show quality. This is my personal Giulia and im not in a hurry to sell it, but if I get my money &amp; time invested I will sell otherwise I will not sell at a bargain price. My personal license plate is not included.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/giuliettas.com\/2008\/07\/29\/market-34-barn-find-giulia-spider-normale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A worse car<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/giuliettas.com\/2009\/06\/26\/market-126-giulia-spider-375817-nice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">An arguably better car (originality)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/giuliettas.com\/2008\/12\/15\/market-69-yet-another-restored-guilia-spyder\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A similar car<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/giuliettas.com\/2009\/05\/29\/market-121-a-tale-of-3-red-1600-spiders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More of the same<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update 10\/12\/09:\u00a0 An offer of $30,000 has been accepted for this car.\u00a0 Well bought?\u00a0 Well sold?\u00a0 Who knows, I&#8217;m just surprised the seller got $1000 more than the Buy iy Now price from the first time around.\u00a0 Nice work! Update 9\/16\/09:\u00a0 After failing to attract a bid at $29,000 the seller has relisted this car &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rufushamilton.com\/giuliettas\/2009\/09\/03\/market-142-restored-1600-spider\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Market 142: restored 1600 Spider&#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":[42,7,28,30],"tags":[103,114,118],"class_list":["post-4703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-101s","category-giulietta-giulia-market","category-restored-cars","category-spider-normales","tag-alfa-romeo","tag-cars","tag-classic-cars"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rufushamilton.com\/giuliettas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703","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=4703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rufushamilton.com\/giuliettas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rufushamilton.com\/giuliettas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rufushamilton.com\/giuliettas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rufushamilton.com\/giuliettas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}