January 11, 2010
Giulia Sprint 1600 10112. I have taken to ignoring advertisements for cars where the VIN number is not mentioned, an arbitrary filter of sorts to keep me from spending all my time on Market Reports if you will, but this car, off of the awkwardly named Car and Classic dot com, deserves mention because I think it’s the first right hand drive late 1600 Sprint I’ve seen. Maybe one of my UK based readers will recognize it and have a VIN for it they can send along. Alfa did about 400 RHD 1600 Spiders with their own Tipo number -10119, I wonder if a RHD Sprint has its own Tipo number? RHD SS’s don’t.
Looks like a very nice Sprint with exemplary chrome and paint. Is it Good wood or Goodwood? Either way, it’s one of the places I need to visit someday during their Festival of Speed Week. Why don’t they have a car show with period dress required of attendees here in the USA? Oh yeah, we are on average a nation of slobs so attendance would be low. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Matt
December 9, 2009
Update 2009/12/08: I received an email from Bob in Vancouver who bought this car and it sounds like it is in good hands, already seeing a hotted up 2 liter with transmission enroute from the builder and the shell due back from the painters by the end of the year. It’s good to see a car like this find the right home.
Update 2009/07/14: After another go on eBay this car ended reserve not met at $4050 with 18 bids. Not sure what it will take to sell it but hopefully the seller will keep improving it. Lot’s more pictures of trim were added and it looks to be fairly complete.
Update 2009/06/16: Reserve not met at $5111 after 8 bidders stepped up. I was thinking that, with a running 1600 installed and almost everything needed to complete it on hand, this car would reach at least $8000. If it were me I would run another auction with an inventory of included parts and better finished product pictures. I think it would see this car sold.
Giulia Sprint 10112*353214. This car is available right now on eBay out of Scotts Valley California, in the Santa Cruz mountains. Not too many of these later Sprints show up for sale, and when they do they are usually a mess. This car seems to buck that trend though it has some issues of its own to address. The ‘buy it now’ price is quite optimistic unless that paint is really nice and the parts included are in very good shape, but as the seller points out, it is easy to be $12,000 into a project like this and be at this point or not quite at his point yet. Anyone interested is advised to go and have a look.
You have to admit that the paint looks good here, as do the grills. Hood shut lines are excellent. I wonder if the hood is bolted in or just sitting on top? Note door in the background.
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Posted by Matt
November 26, 2009
Update 12/2/09: Oops, jeez, I published this initially saying $16,600, was $19,600, 22 bidders no sale. I wouldn’t have sold it either. Kind of strange that 22 bidders would have no questions -at least none worth responding to in public. Relisted of course… Min bid/BIN/make offer $27,500. Honestly about right.
Giulia Sprint 1600 10112*353231. This car is on eBay right now out of New England. Originally a red car but repainted in one of the various takes on celeste that Alfa used throughout the years with names like cloud blue and ice blue. A wise move in my opinion. If you look in the catagories section to the right of where you are reading you will see a link to ‘Sprint Normale’s’ and under that ‘Giulia 1600′. If you select that link you will see that very few of these late cars have been on the market that I’ve known about in the almost two years I’ve been keeping track.
This picture has a remarkable resemblance to the first picture in Market 132. I really dig the way the shape of the car is emphasized by light colors such as this. Grills, bumper, lights, hubcaps, you name it, it all looks great.
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Posted by Matt
July 20, 2009
Giulia Sprint 10112*353213. This car is currently on eBay out of Belmont California. It still wears it’s original black plates and looks to be a well cared for original rather than a restored car. I like! Notice also that it’s serial number is one before this car, another San Francisco Bay Area Sprint. Opening bid is at the desired sale price of $27,000.
Trim looks great and fits very well. The paint seems to be shiney and it just looks right.
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Posted by Matt
April 22, 2009
Update 5/1/09: 12 bidders chimed in and the result was $1525, reserve not met. A little lower than I would have thought, but getting all the bits together is going to cost. I have a lot of what it needs, I wonder what it would take to buy it?
Update 4/21/09: Giulia Sprint 385940 is now on eBay after either having all it’s trim, lights and other bits stripped and sold, or applied to another car the seller may have. I told you a bunch of Sprints would follow that $18.7K car.
I shouldn’t assume the current seller is the previous seller, but for convenience I will.
Wasn’t long ago this guy had his grills and lights and bumpers, hopefully someone is going to buy him and get him a fresh set… maybe.
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Posted by Matt
April 18, 2009
Update 4/25: This car sold for $16,350 with 24 bidders. Not a bad result for a later Sprint that had no effort made to show any potentially rusty areas. I think a trip to the detail shop like the subject of Market 106 would have resulted in better pictures which in turn would have resulted in a higher sale price. If the new owner is interested in lower body trims, I think a set is on eBay right now. Well bought I suspect.
Giulia Sprint 1600 10112*358476, 00112*11980, body 6531121. This car is available right now on eBay out of Washington. As I mentioned after the last Sprint sold on eBay for $18,700, they are probably going to be coming out of the woodwork with sellers trying to capitalize on that cars success. The beauty of this particular example is it can be driven immediately by the new owner and comes with the valuable original engine as well as an installed Giulia Sprint GT Veloce unit.
I like this view of Sprints. Nice Marchal headlamp. Headlight ring looks a little distorted. Auction description says this area was repaired after an accident prior to the sellers ownership. My Sprint has been hit twice in this area. Oh well.
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Posted by Matt
April 15, 2009
Giulia 1600 Sprint 10112*356956. This car is available right now on eBay.UK. According to the Production and Register it was made in 1963, making it one of the last Sprints. Lots of work has been done and it sounds like it is ready for paint and assembly.
Bodywork looks to have been done well. Wipers work in the opposite direction to mine.
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Posted by Matt
October 25, 2008
Update 1/5/09: This car is still available and the seller is looking to get about $25,000 for it.
Giulia Sprint 1600 AR357309. This car is available right now on eBay and bidding is currently $18,000 Fusi says this is a 1963 Giulia Sprint 1600, no engine number is stated but it was originally a Tipo 00112 probably about 08000. Bertone number is probably about 6530000.
I’ve seen this car before on the AlfaBB and the seller seems to have a handle on what these cars are about so I am confident this is a car that is as good as it looks.
These late Sprints are neat because they have the classic Bertone Giulietta Sprint shape combined with the updated components being phased in with the Giulia Sprint Speciale, Giulia Sprint Veloce (step-nose GTV) and Giulia TI.
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Posted by Matt
October 1, 2008
Our friends over at bring a trailer have this car on offer from a collection in Southern California. If it’s a 1964 it’s probably a Giulia 1600 Sprint. The car is reported to have been a French market car which means it probably had a few oddities like a glass brake fluid bottle when it was new. Alfa and Renault had a deal worked out that reduced the import tax on Alfa’s and allowed Alfa to make Dauphines and R4’s in Italy. I’ll explore this relationship in a later post.
This car looks like a pretty straight, lightly modified, used but not abused car that would clean up nicely and make a great driver. Asking price is $30,000 which seems optimistic, but a trip to Orange County may find this car to be better than it appears and it probably has excellent provenance from its time on the track.
The absence of the egg-crate grills on this car makes it look tough. I’d put some Cibie Oscars on either side of the grill heart. All the visible trim and shut lines look good. I like the orangy-red and would look forward to cleaning and polishing this car if I bought it.
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Posted by Matt
July 7, 2008
Reserve not Met. Auction ended at $3300 on 7/6/08. This ending price is probably the parts value of the car. I would guess the reserve was $3500 or $4000. Car has been relisted and I’m not sure but I think there are additional photos.
Giulia Sprint 1600 10112*356469. Yet another project Sprint from the eBay seller out of Newport Beach. Whoever bought the subject of Market #11 might consider this car as a co-project to make two into one from with that car. With values where they are today a Sprint like this is in a much better position for survival than it has ever been. That said, I think this car is a better value as a source of parts than as a restoration project, though the optimist in me would love to see it restored.
The body is for the most part straight, with the usual decent panel gaps and trim fit. It has rust issues, probably not terminal but challenging. Replaced rear drivers corner could hide major headaches, but with cut out and weld in rust repairs to do anyway it would probably fade to background noise by the time you got to it.
Even in near death the Sprint is beautiful. Drivers side headlight is neat period Marchal unit. Headlight rings mismatch. Front bumber in picture is not original.
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Posted by Matt
Looks like a very nice Sprint with exemplary chrome and paint. Is it Good wood or Goodwood? Either way, it’s one of the places I need to visit someday during their Festival of Speed Week. Why don’t they have a car show with period dress required of attendees here in the USA? Oh yeah, we are on average a nation of slobs so attendance would be low. Read the rest of this entry »
