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.
