{"id":9998,"date":"2011-12-25T12:02:33","date_gmt":"2011-12-25T19:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/giuliettas.wordpress.com\/?p=9998"},"modified":"2011-12-25T12:02:33","modified_gmt":"2011-12-25T19:02:33","slug":"market-358-early-spider-00647-slightly-modified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rufushamilton.com\/giuliettas\/2011\/12\/25\/market-358-early-spider-00647-slightly-modified\/","title":{"rendered":"Market 358: Early Spider 00647, slightly modified"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update 1\/4\/12:\u00a0 <\/strong>Wow, $6,412!!<\/p>\n

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Giulietta Spider 750D 1495*00647<\/a>.\u00a0 <\/strong>This odd-ball home-brew special is on eBay<\/a> right now out of Sacramento.\u00a0 I am going to assume this is all reversible, and only the front end changes will present any challenge not part of routine rust repair.\u00a0 Title of the auction says ‘Veloce’ but 00647 is not listed as such in d’Amico & Tabucchi.\u00a0 If the engine is matching numbers to the body -and I believe it is based on the fuel line configuration- this is actually\u00a0 a pretty good first step toward early Spider ownership in project form.\u00a0 Me?\u00a0 I’d vacuum out the leaves and roll as-is to Pebble Beach -you’d turn more heads in this than an 8C 2900.\u00a0 If you had this car and the Market 216 car<\/a>, you’d corner a dubious market.<\/p>\n

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Roof gutter definitely recalls the VW bug.\u00a0 Too bad they didn’t have access to a Sprint roof to work with -might have been more successful.\u00a0 Firewall is early Spider 750D leading me to believe more strongly that the vin is correct.\u00a0 Headlight openings are likely 70’s Alfa Spider sections.\u00a0 Engine looks remarkably complete and original.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Do I see the slightest hint of a black plate on the passenger side bumper?\u00a0 Front end grill opening looks like it’s from a Sunbeam Alpine maybe?<\/strong>\u00a0 Corner marker lights recall a Triumph TR.\u00a0 Get a Spider nose clip, practice up on your welding skills and away you go.\u00a0 Looks like the mounting features for the radiator have been altered.\u00a0 As it is now, it’s a ram air through an over-sized radiator in a car known for very stable running temperatures -oh well, it is in Sacramento where it gets hot in the summer.\u00a0 Corvette bumpers are not included.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Doesn’t look to have too much rocker rust.\u00a0 Door shut line is pretty good.\u00a0 Guys who attempt this thing are usually either horrible welders or great welders, if the former, there will be a lot of not very well penetrated welds, if the latter there will be a lot of deeply penetrating welds -either way, there will be a lot of careful grinding to do.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

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I think those hinges are the right Giulietta items -nice.\u00a0 I wonder how clean the work on the inside of the lid is.\u00a0 Looks like new trunk lid time.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Color might have been light blue or light gray originally?\u00a0 Window opening shape is not entirely bad.\u00a0 Kind of AC Aceca shaped.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I can’t quite make out what changes were made here.\u00a0 Did they move the edge of the cockpit back?\u00a0 Did they fill it in?\u00a0 The shock inspection covers are not there.\u00a0 Maybe there’s a VW engine in the back!\u00a0 There’s not -in the third picture Alfa brake drums can clearly be seen.\u00a0 Some odd bits lying about in here.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Looks like they were trying to give it a VW dash.\u00a0 Note early shift lever.\u00a0 Gauges look bad, but hey -they’re in there.\u00a0 Steering wheel is not confidence inspiring.\u00a0 I wonder what the world record distance for driving with vise-grips in place of a steering wheel is?\u00a0 I bet the floor looks pretty bad under those leaves.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Early exhaust manifold, bakelite valve cover nuts, head mounted fuel pump with early hard-line plumbing, no cross brace web at the back of the valve cover, generator all point to the engine being early and there-fore likely correct for the car.\u00a0\u00a0 Radiator looks to be original, so disregard my earlier comment about over-sized.\u00a0 The radiator support structure looks unmodified, water-pump looks odd.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Blank plate over the heater input duct.\u00a0 The right air-box I think.\u00a0 Carb?<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>This is one of the more interesting cars I’ve written about.\u00a0 It’s coming out of Sacramento so there is a good chance it has less rust than you expect.\u00a0 If it’s matching numbers then it’s a good starting place for someone and may go for surprising money.\u00a0 If not I may have to buy it and test my Pebble Beach theory.<\/p>\n

I expect lots of reader participation in the form of comments on this car.\u00a0 What do you think??\u00a0 Norm, do you want to go look at it for me and take some pictures?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Update 1\/4\/12:\u00a0 Wow, $6,412!! Giulietta Spider 750D 1495*00647.\u00a0 This odd-ball home-brew special is on eBay right now out of Sacramento.\u00a0 I am going to assume this is all reversible, and only the front end changes will present any challenge not part of routine rust repair.\u00a0 Title of the auction says ‘Veloce’ but 00647 is not … <\/p>\n

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