Update 2/5/12: This car is doing another tour of eBay -in what will likely be a decaying series of ending prices. The last result of $6901 was pretty reasonable for a scruffy, loosely assembled project with the wrong motor.
Update 1/24/12: Close maybe, but no sale.
Update 1/28/12: 13 bids resulting in a sale price of $4550 is about right for an incomplete, rusty Spider. I wonder how many people are hoarding these kinds of cars, waiting for the day when they are all expensive -if it ever comes?
Update 1/23/12: Alex contacted the seller and the stats are: Giulia Spider 1600 AR10123*378512, 00112*33388. Thanks Alex!
Giulia Spider 1600 10123. This car is available on Hemmings out of South Carolina for $39,500. Seller is listing it for a late friend – I presume for the estate. Condition looks really good, with some non-original touches that don’t really detract unless you’re a serious purist.
I like how clean the lines are in white -and when the rest is all blacks and silvers, it lends an almost clinical beauty. Hood and door fit well. Chromed wheels may have been a dealer add-on.
2011 saw more SS’s on the market than Sprint/Sprint Veloce’s -at least as far as my tracking went, and I didn’t really try to find SS’s more than Sprints. Seems odd, since there were 10X more Sprint’s made. If you look at the list below you will see very few first series 750B’s, no lightweights and only a couple non-lightweight Veloce’s changed hands -the bulk of the sales were 101 normale’s like mine. Of those a few made really decent money.
Market 287 was a Sprint in a sorry state out of Poland for $1000.
Market 325 was a 101 Sprint selling as a pair with a stepnose GTV, sold together for $3748 -I’ll give the Sprint the benefit of the doubt and say it sold for $2000.
Update 1/9/12: $15,101 is the sale price after 5 bids. That’s pretty solid money.
Giulietta Spider 10104*09537. This Spider is on eBay out of New York with a starting bid of $8,000. Condition is pretty reasonable as the start of a light ‘run it as is’ type project. Seller says it doesn’t run currently and has had some floor repairs. It comes with a hardtop that is one of the made in California FiberFab (??) type. I like the license plate!
It really doesn’t look bad. It could be the basis of a decent driver without much fuss. The engines can always be made to run, but will probably require a minor overhaul. I like them without the grill ‘eyebrows’..
Giulia Spider 1600. Kip sent me the link to this car on Craigslist. It’s rough, but only $3000. Probably sold by now!
The great American yard find. Note blue tarp and kid in the back ground.
Giulietta Spider 10103*370837. This car is available now from DriverSource in Texas. It wears an aging red respray, has some loose ends to tidy and is said to run and drive well. Ask is $34,900 -on the high side for a car with a dash this scruffy -but who knows…
Looks amazing here -but who wouldn’t with that backdrop. Front rim is a Borrani, rear is a Fergat.
Update 12/17/11: I’m still a little skeptical, but this car seems to have surfaced as a restored example in France for 32,000 Euro or $41,600. I’ve compared pictures and the drivers side mirror, gauges and shift knob look the same between both. What do you think? If it sold for $12,000, cost $2000 to get it to Europe, that leaves $27,000 to fix it up and try and make money over 18 months. If all it needed was rust repair, a respray and some catalog parts, maybe they’ll make money. I suppose it really begs the question of corners cut.
Lots of pictures to compare here.
No visual cues yet that it’s the same car.
Same wood shifter knob and yellowed tri-gauge. Neither is a rare thing. Interior looks okay -seat covers are wrong.
Other than being a lot cleaner, it could be the same engine compartment. Same radiator cap?
Update 11/11/09: This car has turned up at Steuel in the Netherlands. Price is not 11,500 Euro ($17,200 while the dollar lasts as the semi-universal currency). Let’s see, $1000 to get it across the water, add a few thou’ to it and the makings of a living can be seen. I’m surprised the hardtop wasn’t removed and sold separately.
Giulia Spider 375838 finds itself in a new country with a new language to learn and in the hands of people who have seen way worse rust.
Update 6/16/09: Amazing what can happen on eBay. This car ended at $12,200 with 22 bidders this time around. That is almost double what it reached last time with the same amount of bidders. Maybe someone really wanted the hard top! This car is in many ways not as nice as my car that I am asking $4000. I guess it’s time to put it on eBay.
Update 6/8/09: Apparently not sold, this car is once again on eBay though the seller has a different ID, not sure what that is about. Current bid is higher than the previous selling price and it’s only been on half a day. Seller has another Spider project, earlier, not as complete and a Veloce, that was listed at the same time. I think I would space the listings out if it were me, but there seems to be no shortage of Spider projects so it probably wouldn’t help.
Sorry about the lack of postings, I’ve been busy with other stuff and WordPress has been taking a LONG time to do/load anything so I get frustrated. Must be the large amount of stuff I have saved on their site.
Update 3/19/09: Car sold for $6250 with 22 bids. Probably well bought when everything is considered, especially the hard top.
Giulia Spider 1600 101.23 AR375858, Engine AR00502*15806 (Sprint GT). This little gem available on eBay right now out of Carlsbad California (near San Diego) re enforces the notion that ‘it’s always something’. Here we see a promising start with a complete car wearing very straight trim, a factory hard top, California Black Plates and a Sprint GT engine. While the engine is not original, with these ‘regular’ Spiders it doesn’t really matter so long as it runs. The something? This car is pretty rusty where it matters.
I could see just making this thing run and drive and then using it rusty bumpers (or no bumpers) and all. From this picture it looks like Carello’s chrome is longer lasting than Alfas and the grill eyebrows make me think it all should be stainless.
Update 12/25/11: 33 bids resulted in a sale price of $30,101.
Update 12/20/11: Oops, just added a link to the auction and Flickr photo set.
Giulietta Spider 10103*370548. This car is on eBay right now out of Georgia. Seller is a long time AROC member who restored the car in about 1990. It is in good condition cosmetically and is a turn key driver. No waiting for shops to get work done with this one -just fuel it up and cruise.
Red paint looks very good for being 20+ years old. Bright-work is all very dazzling. Rear view mirror is a late Sprint item. Top looks a little wrinkly -like it’s not used to being up. I certainly wouldn’t have it up ever -well, if I was parked outside in the rain…
Update 1/3/12: I have it on pretty good word that the car sold for $5500.
Update 12/14/11: Auction was pulled. An off eBay deal?
Update 12/5/11: Giulia Spider Veloce 10118*390672. She’s a Veloce!
Kip sent me a link to this Spider on eBay when it was first posted with the caption ‘car in a barn, without the barn’. Pretty good description. Car has a Pininfarina hard top guaranteeing it will sell for at least $1500. Even the optimistic optimist in me thinks this is a parts car.
You can bet the left side of this car is REALLY rusty. Looks like a reasonable car that got left for some reason and expired while waiting for it’s masters return. What am I saying, buy this, fix it, run it. Vroom!
Giulia Spider 1600 10123*379319, 00112*15107. This car is on eBay out of Buhl, MN. Seller says their dad brought it home years ago, parked it in the garage and that was it. Never moved until now as a commodity. Condition is not horrible, nor is it great. It could probably be put back on the road as-is, with some minor patching and mechanical repairs. As a restoration candidate it needs some rust repair, but not as much as a lot of cars I’ve seen. Price is ~$4000 as I write, with a day left on the auction.
Busted up in all sorts of ways, but again, not anywhere the worst I’ve seen. Will be some work and then some.
Update 10/27/11: Statement by me: “I’m guessing it’s a late 60 – 62 Spider 10103 1300.” I was right -one of the last 1300 Spiders -370324. Buy it now is reduced. Pictures are better -still has a 750 head and Miata seats. $29,000? Greig? Laurence? Definition of restoration discussion ensues.
A positive ID.
10/12/11: Giulietta Spider 1495*03690. This car is on eBay right now out of Salt Lake City. Seller claims it’s ‘nearing the end of the restoration’ -I think that might be a mis-statement. It can be yours buy it now for $32,000 – I don’t recommend that.
Smooth hood, vent windows -should be after about vin 09000. Paint looks as good as it usually does in small pictures. Whats the yellow thing in the marker light position? Continue reading
