{"id":654,"date":"2008-09-24T08:58:29","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T15:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/giuliettas.wordpress.com\/?p=654"},"modified":"2008-09-24T08:58:29","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T15:58:29","slug":"giuliettas-dot-com-turns-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rufushamilton.com\/giuliettas\/2008\/09\/24\/giuliettas-dot-com-turns-100\/","title":{"rendered":"giuliettas dot com turns 100!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>147 days ago I started this Giuliettas.com blog.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 I guess there was no real central location for auction news (with selling price and pictures), historical musings and small personal mechanical struggles with Giuliettas.\u00a0 No one-stop-shop if you will.\u00a0 Now that\u00a0I have been at it a while I have to ask myself: What have I done?\u00a0 I&#8217;ve created\u00a0a small, usually quiet readership who send me a nudge whenever a few days goes by and I haven&#8217;t put up a new post.\u00a0 I appreciate the comments, no matter how brief or off topic\u00a0and market alert emails (Paul and Ian come first to mind) they keep me going when I wonder what the point is and help a lot when I don&#8217;t have the time to search on my own for cars.\u00a0 I thought this blog would just be a lunchtime meditiation to help me avoid all of the horrible Silicon Valley California fast food lunch invites and fill gaps between\u00a0work projects.\u00a0\u00a0It has done these and much more, I&#8217;ve even made some friends along the way.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/giuliettas.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/09\/mazzotti_p.jpeg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1311\" title=\"speciale racer\" src=\"http:\/\/giuliettas.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/09\/mazzotti_p.jpeg?resize=384%2C363\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rufushamilton.com\/giuliettas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/mazzotti_p.jpeg?w=384&amp;ssl=1 384w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rufushamilton.com\/giuliettas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/mazzotti_p.jpeg?resize=300%2C284&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/a><strong>SS going fast in the dirt back when the world was a simpler place to live.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/giuliettas.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/09\/alfa20romeo20boneschi20weekendina.jpeg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1309\" title=\"alfa romeo boneschi weekendina\" src=\"http:\/\/giuliettas.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/09\/alfa20romeo20boneschi20weekendina.jpeg?w=300&#038;resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rufushamilton.com\/giuliettas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/alfa20romeo20boneschi20weekendina.jpeg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rufushamilton.com\/giuliettas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/alfa20romeo20boneschi20weekendina.jpeg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rufushamilton.com\/giuliettas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/alfa20romeo20boneschi20weekendina.jpeg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><strong>My favorite station wagon in the world:\u00a0 The Bonesci Weekendia!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Blog stats are fun but evil, like checking your ebay auction for bids or watchers.\u00a0 It&#8217;s like &#8216;are we there yet?&#8217; without the there to be headed towards.\u00a0 Writing this blog has changed my thought processes about my hobby and\u00a0changed my view of these cars, dispelling fictions as I search for fact.\u00a0 I sometimes feel like a humanitarian aid worker for these cars because I can&#8217;t seem to bring myself to dismiss one, no matter how rusted or crashed as beyond help.\u00a0 Oh well, at least my editor doesn&#8217;t give me a hard time about it.\u00a0 Some statistics on my milestone:<\/p>\n<p>100 blog posts in 147 days.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere in the neighborhood of 40,000 words!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>50 market reports including 13 Sprint Speciales.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One email from a guy who <a href=\"http:\/\/giuliettas.com\/2008\/07\/12\/market-31-restored-1960-giulietta-ss\/#more-660\">bought a car <\/a>\u00a0that he found because of my blog.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/giuliettas.com\/2008\/08\/21\/guest-blog-entry-concorso-italiano-2008\/#more-1089\">One guest entry <\/a>from THE <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hardtuned.com\/\">Jeff Glenn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>694 blocked spam comments.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>439 visits on my busiest day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>23,905 visits since I started.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/giuliettas.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/09\/bertone-plug.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1310\" title=\"bertone-plug\" src=\"http:\/\/giuliettas.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/09\/bertone-plug.jpg?resize=250%2C217\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"217\" \/><\/a><strong>The Bertone plug that your eyebrow Sprint was probably made off of.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading and I hope I can continue to keep you entertained.\u00a0 Look for a report on and picture set from the Berlina tour in the next few days.\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to try and maintain a 3 post per week average going forward, so come back often.\u00a0 Anyone want to do a guest blog entry let me know!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/giuliettas.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/09\/linux20small_stampe_a_4_600_html_55e3af81.jpeg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1312\" title=\"fiat 600 pig\" src=\"http:\/\/giuliettas.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/09\/linux20small_stampe_a_4_600_html_55e3af81.jpeg?resize=300%2C199\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><strong>What do you get when you cross a Pig and a Multipla?\u00a0 Best comment response gets a T-shirt if I ever get them made.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>147 days ago I started this Giuliettas.com blog.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 I guess there was no real central location for auction news (with selling price and pictures), historical musings and small personal mechanical struggles with Giuliettas.\u00a0 No one-stop-shop if you will.\u00a0 Now that\u00a0I have been at it a while I have to ask myself: What have I &hellip; 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