Update 1/6/12: I feel like I’m watching a rocket take off at Cape Canaveral. This car has been listed by Colin’s Classic Cars in Milwaukee for $125,000. It looks like some work has been done to tighten it up but it didn’t seem to need anything the last time it sold. It remains stunning and it remains one of the best I’ve had the pleasure of writing about.
Can this car have appreciated $54,900 in 7 months? I hope we find out, and hold on to your hat if it has.
Update 1/12/12: This car has sold.
Original post 1/5/12: Giulietta Spider Veloce 750F 1495*05144, 1315*31935. Fantasy Junction has this car in stock right now for $79,500. Fit and finish look pretty good, but some non-originality including color combo, intake, steering wheel and transmission, may put off some buyers. The caretakers of this car mentioned in the ad are well known for quality work, so it should drive well. California black plates are a nice addition as always.
I’ve looked down this sidewalk a few times. Looks good up here. Hood fit is slightly biased toward the left side. You don’t see amber markers on 750′s very often.
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 12/31/11: Sold for $30,100!
Giulietta Spider Veloce 750F 1495*02264, 1315*30740. Brad pointed out that this car just popped up on eBay out of Connecticut. As far as Spider Veloce projects goes, this car just about has it all -1957 build date, matching numbers, correct intake system including 40DCO3′s, seats with tracks, moderate rust, and overall decent completeness. It’s still a project, and as such maybe a road to ruin, but among projects, it’s not too bad.
Looks like a really good car -maybe wax it, vacuum the spiders out of the engine compartment, iron the carpets and away you go. Hood fit is really good.
Giulietta Spider Veloce 750F 1495*01925. This car is available now out of Portugal. It sports a 101 normal 1300 engine and looks okay. Asking price is 42,000 euro’s -a bit high for what is seen in the pictures. Looks like maybe the same seller as the vent window Sprint in Portugal.
Looks decent here -red paint is lustrous, red and uniform. Rear view mirror looks correct -really, no big alarm bells. I doubt that hard top is a Pininfarina original.
Giulietta Spider 750F 1495*03317, 1315*30772 (missing), 1315*45283 (now). Wow, I just spent 15 minutes looking to see if I wrote about this car before -time to organize my files!! This car is available now from Ghibli Auto Classiche e Sportive in Italy. Conditon is not so good, but it’s a Veloce and it’s in the land where all the spare parts seem to be headed.
Looking so-so. Parts are present. I want to start an ‘as found’ movement, where you get a car like this, make it work, and use it looking like this. Would be fun and boost Tetanus shot sales.
Giulietta Spider Veloce 750F 1495*03409, 1315*30905 (missing, 40168 included): This car is available from Beverly Hills Car Club for $29,500. Car is in okay condition, being generally solid and attractive, but having a lot of questionable repairs in evidence, and in need of a lot of mechanical work.
Paint looks to have been competently applied. Chrome parts need chrome. Hood fits pretty good. Not sure what the holes in the bumpers are all about.
Update 12/20/11: Reserve not met. It’s a Veloce. It’s rough. It’s a Veloce. It’s incomplete. It’s a Veloce. It’s…
Giulietta Spider Veloce 750F 1495*05994, 1315*32354 (missing). This car is on eBay right now from Wholesale California in Costa Mesa. It spent the better part of it’s existence in a field in Washington and it shows. Lots to fix, but it is a 750 Veloce! Original engine is missing, but a blank block is included, not sure if it’s a 750 or 101. Car is listed on their site for $15,900.
Just looks overly scruffy in this view. Trim is all pretty decent when you consider the elements.
Giulietta Spider Veloce 1495*07600, 1315*32968. This Bill Gillham restored car recently went through the auction at Amelia Island and sold for $90,000 + 10% buyers premium ($99,000). Seller was the same as he who sold SS 388 for $140,000 + 10% buyers premium. I actually know this car very well as I went to inspect it for the seller last summer. I drove it home, stored it, and used it a little to make a list of wants for the new owner. It drove amazing and turned heads! It had a few loose ends that the seller tightened up.
Black with red interior is the new red with black interior. This is a nice car. I drove it. I was tempted to ask Don what he was talking about the next time he called for an update. Light and nimble on the road, pulled great for the much poo-pooed 1300 that everyone sneaks a 1750 in place of. I even dug the 4 speed.
Update 9/7/10: Well, this sad case has been reduced to an ending -no reserve met- total of $1136 after 3 bids. On the bright side, the phrase ‘Tennessee Velosh!” has entered the Alfa Giulietta lexicon.
Update 8/23/10: This feller is back on eBay -some lucky motoring enthusiast can buy it now for $2700 and figure out what to do with it later. Woot!
Update 7/10/10: Someone liked this enough to buy it now for $2500. In one of the Q&A responses the seller says emphatically that this car can’t be returned to stock. With these cars likely to be $100K by the end of the decade I’m sure some intrepid soul is hoping to prove the seller wrong.
Giulietta Spider Veloce 750F 1495*04640 (or 750F 03305), 1315*31655 (Not included). Tennessee is the home of this Spider that’s on eBay right now. Vin on the title with the car is 03305, vin on the build plate is 04640 and the vin on the body is unknown -if I had to bet on which is accurate I’d put my money on the title. It’s ironic/sad/frustrating that someone took a roller 58 Spider Veloce probably worth $10 – 15K of todays money, spent 6 years ruining it by altering it to fit a V8 and Toyota suspension and now are hoping to get $2500 out of it. This is what you call a lose-lose situation -I bet they threw out the sheet metal they cut out of it too.
What do you do with something like this? It’s probably unusable in its current form with all that weight over the front axle, way too much power for the rear end to grip and poor visibility with that scoop.
Update 7/31/10: Seller ended the auction early when an acceptable bid came in. The new owner contacted me but a selling price was not revealed. I’m going to guess somewhere between $15k – $20k. New owner sounds enthusiastic about the car so hopefully the restoration will be seen through.
Giulietta Spider Veloce 750F 1495*03326, 1315*30818. This car is on eBay right now out of Michigan. As far as mostly disassembled roller projects go it is a pretty good starting point having matching numbers, not too much rust (I know -but I’ve seen so much worse) and no real accident damage. Step right up!
Nose looks great as a starting place -no ugly repairs to correct, no gaping rust holes and the Veloce intake divider seen here next to the drivers side marker light is in good shape.
Update 5/24/10: Check out this picture of the 750F list in d’A & T. I would think it’s a Veloce. This car doesn’t make any sense to be $40K as a normale… more like $28k.
Giulietta Spider Veloce 750F 1495*05388, 1315*013679. This car is listed right now at Fantasy Junction for $39,500 and described as being a Veloce conversion but this chassis number is listed in d’Amico and Tabucchi as a 1958 Spider Veloce and I will assume they are correct.
So far so good. Grill eyebrows are missing but that’s not a big deal to sort out if you want. Drivers side grill tusk looks a little crooked. Hood fits good and everything says ‘driver’.
