Category Archives: Preserved Cars

Market 269: Nice Giulia SS in Colorado

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Update 3/21/11: This car has (surprise surprise) ended up at a classic car dealer, with a 20% mark up.  See it here at Gullwing Motorcars for $59,500.  Lots of new pictures added to this cars photo set.

Looks good with a proper detail job!

Update 11/17/10:Failed to sell on eBay -reaching $40,544 with 20 bids.  What’s the story you ask?  Well, I think it probably has to do with the rust bubbles in the rockers.  These cars are not trivial to fix when they have rust and based on the pictures chances are this car will need rockers.  There is a pretty good discussion of this on the BB.  The end of the world?  No -but competent replacement followed by at minimum color matched paint will be more than $10K.  Do the math…

Update 11/11/10: On eBay!

Giulia SS 10121*381131, 00121*01052 (now 00112*15918). This car is listed on the Alfa BB as available for discussion and possible purchase if the price is right before it goes on eBay.  The BB post features a fairly comprehensive description and the pictures below.  I assume it will end up on eBay as sellers tend to want the max possible money and that is an unknown number until an auction is run.

Looks pretty good.  Red with gray interior is a nice combo.  Check for dings carefully after seeing it nestled so closely in with all that junk.

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Market 291: Driver Giulia SS in Texas

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Update 3/17/11: 75 bids resulted in $62,750.  It’s no joke, game on for SS values!

Update 3/14/11: Bidding has reached  $40,000 and reserve is met with 2 days to go.  The suspense begins!

Giulia SS 10121*381379. This car is on eBay right now out of Texas.  Bidding is at just shy of $30,000 with 4 days left as I write.  This car is truly in ‘how you used to find them’ condition and frankly may be as much as $80,000 away from being a top money car, but for a capable DIY restorer that restoration number could get down to $40,000.  Why do I mention this?  See yesterdays post, which the seller references in their write up, a Giulietta SS sold for $140,000 at the Amelia Island auction.  This is a great place to start, but it still has to be reduced to nuts, bolts and bare metal and built back out to get in the league that car is in.  Then it has to find a buyer… Or it could be let alone, touched up, enjoyed and entered in the preservation class some day.

Looks great from this distance, through the lens of a camera after being hosed down.  Note dent above headlight.  Antennae has to go to.

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Market 286: “Structurally Magnificent” 1600 Spider

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Giulia Spider 1600 10123*378523, 00112*13849. Fantasy Junction, my local $ports and $pecialty car dealer, has in their showroom now this late 1600 Spider, a good example of why you try and buy a car out of California.  As rust free as you could ask for and priced to match at $44,500.  Their site lists it as ‘sale pending’ so move fast if this is your thing.

FJ always has this angle and for good reason -a handsome car made even more handsome.  Looks good no?

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Markt 259: Nice Giulietta SS in the US

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Update 10/19/10: This car is now on eBay and features a lot of pictures.  Also, I had the VIN wrong -it’s 10120*177423 (link is to more pictures) with engine number 00120*01775.  I wonder if the seller from Hemmings knew they were selling it to a dealer?

Update 10/4/10: Driversource bought this car, gave it a polish and now you can buy it from them for $59,500.

Update 9/9/10: I have received word that this car has been sold.  You snooze you lose!

Giulietta Sprint Speciale 10120*177423, 00120*01775. This car is for sale right now on Hemmings out of Belleville Michigan for $50,000 -not bad for a nice original car, just under 40K Euro’s.

Hello Gorgeous!  I like them in white.  Corner marker lights look a little far back on the fender, but maybe the one’s I’ve seen are too far forward.

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Market 249: Odd but nice Sprint 1600 in Italy

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Giulia Sprint 1600 10112. This car is available now out of Italy for 25,000 Euro’s.  It sports some odd treatments but looks to be a really nice car -I especially like the color combo.

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Market 247: clean 750D in Germany

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Giulietta Spider 750D 1495*07183, 1315*45807. Another fabulous Giulietta out of Germany, this Spider is available from Wunscholdtimer for 39,500 Euro’s or about $52,000 at the time of writing.  A lot of money but a very nice, original appearing Spider.

This car looks to have either been extremely well cared for since new or it’s an older restoration.  The paint is great but some of the interior and engine compartment components lack the luster expected of a ‘new’ restoration.  This is about as nice as I’d want a car to be.  Front end looks amazing.

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Market 239: Giulietta Spider 750D 05488

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8/11/10: No more beating around the bush -the car has been listed for $35K ‘buy it now’ or ‘make offer’.  Throw an offer their way between the last high bid and the asking and maybe it can be yours.

8/10/10: 19 bids saw this car make $22,200 but the reserve was not met.  Seller says they have the correct seats which is a plus.  This car will probably be relisted and reach about the same high bid.  I’m beginning to think eBay is not really suited for cars like this.

Giulietta Spider 750D 1495*05488, 1315*44524. This car is on eBay right now out of South Carolina.  Condition is along the lines of well cared for drivers with some hidden blemishes and unoriginal parts -seats the most glaring feature in this category.

Hood fit is good, paint looks okay but not great.  Trim -especially bumpers is presentable but not excellent.  Just my kind of car!

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Market 213: Spider 750D 01503, very nice project

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Update 8/9/10: This car has turned up for sale yet again, this time on San Francisco Bay Area craigslist for $29,500  I find it hard to believe work to the tune of about $10K has been done to it but it’s a free country and a fool and his money…

It really doesn’t look like a bad car and I understand that where there’s a buck to be made it will be made, but at least rattle-can that rust spot on the front wheel so we get the sense that some work has been done to earn the mark-up.

Update 5/1/10: 23 bids pushed the price up to $14,100 but the reserve was not met.  I wouldn’t have sold it for that either.  What’s fair for this car?  The market will eventually decide, but my opinion is somewhere between $16k and $18k, maybe a little more if it’s better in person than the pictures, but that’s not usually the case.  I think the appearance of another early 750D in slightly better shape derailed this auction a bit.  List it again after an eBay Giulietta Spider dry spell but before the Monterey weekend Alfa 100 year celebrations and things should go well.

Giulietta Spider 750D 1493*01503. This car is on eBay right now out of Northridge Ca.  Seller is pretty well known in the Alfa world and a straight shooter as they say.  Car was on Craigslist not long ago… can’t remember when or where exactly but I think in 2010 and I think in Colorado for I think about $15K.  If you are looking to restore an early one in the rolling restoration style then this is your car to start with!

Very nice and straight other than a bump in the bumper.  Hood fit is not quite right on the passenger side but not terrible or anything.

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Alfa Centennial Celebration part 1

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Brad Baum, a southern California Giulietta owner/restorer/enthusiast -whose name you may recognize, was in Italy for the Alfa Romeo 100 year celebration and sent me these pictures from a parking lot in Rho.  He focused on the rare and interesting bits on the cars there.  Check it out.  Captions in Italics are Brads

This impeccable red 750 Sprint was in the Alfa museum parking lot Friday afternoon of the Centenario Alfa Romeo in Arese. I very much like the industrial design of this mirror, but it looks like it might interfere when the door is opened.

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Market 241: Nice 750B in Portugal

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Giulietta Sprint 750B 1493*07790. This car is available now from FS Automoveis in Lisbon for the not outrageous but high asking price of 29,500 Euro’s -$38,800 on the day of writing.  Condition is good as far as can be discerned by the low quality pictures.

Good looking car!  It has a unified patina and shine -the kind of car you want to buy if you want to just drive it home and enjoy it.

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Market 190: TI GD CKD in OC CA

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Update 7/26/20: $7350, reserve not met was the result after 17 bids.  This seems cheap but then again there are not a bunch of guys queuing up to buy these cars and the that in combination with RHD makes me think a little more than the final result would have been a reasonable price.

Update 7/21/10: This car is now listed on eBay out of Southern California.  The new pictures are nice and show a very original car.

Posted 2/18/10: Giulietta TI 10109*109054, 00109*00595. This right hand drive or guida destra as the Italians say, is available right now through Vintage Customs in Washington.  Vintage Customs is Daron’s shop where a lot of Alfa’s (and other contemporaries) go to have rust repaired, get restored or be prepped for racing -check out some of the projects they have posted on their website while you’re there, neat stuff!

I like the color, I like the originality, I like the shine on the trim and well, there’s nothing I don’t like.  A very handsome car!

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Market 197: Bring a Trailer Exclusive Giulia 1600 Spider

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Update 6/11/10: Is anyone surprised that this car had a hard time selling for $34,000, sold for a chunk less and now has turned up in Texas at DriveSource for $32,500?  I’m not.  I stand by my assertion that you have one (or if you are lucky two) chances to sell a car for a really good price and whether you wear the buying public out with multiple ebay auctions or stand by a slightly unrealistic price for a few months, you create a sense of undesireability or flaw -deserved or not, that makes potential buyers think something must be wrong with the car if it hasn’t sold.  DriverSource has put some effort into the car and it really looks great these days, and I can say -having seen this car in person on the Lap of Marin not long ago, that it is a nice car, so maybe this car will find a happy home soon.

This car has been polished to within an inch of its’ life.  Cool!  I still think the windshield wipers sit way too high on the glass. 

Original post 3/5/10: Giulia Spider 1600 10123*392337, 00112*15937.  As usual Bring a Trailer has the drop on a cool car and have brought it to market exclusive style, this time in the form of this very late Giulia Spider.  It’s located in the San Francisco Bay Area and looks to be a pretty nice example.  $34,000 must be spent to own it, -top of the private seller market,  which means it must be test driven and inspected in person -rather the opposite of a chore. 

Nice car in a nice setting.  These late Spiders are solid reliable and fun, so where better to drive it than among the vines.  Mirrors are a little more forward than usual. Continue reading →