Update 5/6/12: I don’t remember if it failed to get any bids, or was ended early, but this car is back on eBay after a brief hiatus. Seller seems to have done some research and knows what they are selling this time around. Car looks a lot better now and the opening bid has gone from $500 to $6499. Such a deal.
Much better no? Check out the difference in descriptions, both are posted below.
Update 4/6/12: Car reached an underwhelming $15,099. I’ve heard of 00120 engines selling for about $10K, so this is pretty cheap for this car, regardless of how busted up you think it is.
Giulietta Sprint Speciale 10120*00440 This car is on eBay out of France right now. Seller commented a few days ago about the availability of this car, wanting to post here, but I was away from the internet for a few days and now here it is on eBay. The car is said to have been vandalized and stripped of parts, but it looks solid enough to be viable for someone, and since these have gone up in value, more parts -especially trim bits, are available new. Car received ‘final assembly’ in France by Renault -part of their trade agreement for car imports.
Nice color combo! Looks like that late 60′s GTV color, and the blacked out bumpers are an interesting touch. Kind of looks like the car was driven into a corner, creating angled dents at each headlight.
Update 3/27/12: This car sold for $1442 after 22 bids. A decent result for a rough looking example. Interest in these cars increases?
3/15/12: Glas 1700GT. First -pardon the non-Giulietta market post, but as I mentioned when I got my Glas GT, I plan on there being an occasional aside to the headlining act, and someone has to try and figure out what the market for these cars is. This car is on eBay out of Illinois. Looks to be too rusty to be a viable restoration candidate, but the sheet metal is ALL available and very inexpensive -too bad it’s as much work to weld up one of these as a Giulietta Sprint. There are no pictures of the engine -maybe they couldn’t get the hood open!
Pretty straight and complete looking. Shame about the door rust and, well, all the other rust too. Headlight rings are aluminum. Front bumper really makes the front end look a lot more complete than it looks without it.
Update 3/27/12: I think I would have sold this car for $8,100!
3/14/12: Giulietta Spider 10103 170922. Close to the polar opposite of yesterdays Spider Veloce is this crusty project on eBay right now out of Florida. It has all the bases covered: rust, dents, missing parts and the need for optimism on the part of the new owner -that said, it’s a pretty good parts car.
You can tell by the ride up front the engine is missing. If the rear was a little lower I’d say it was in the trunk. Note nose dent and rust in rocker. All in all though…
Update 4/6/12: 2 runs through ebay have resulted in the death spiral of ever lower auction results as buyer fatigue sets in and new projects steal the lime light. 5 more auctions and this will struggle to reach $5000 at this rate.
Giulia Spider 1600 10123 377929. This car is available now on eBay out of Florida. It was painted about 5 years ago, comes with a bunch of parts, and needs a lot of work. These are straight forward cars to work on -but it helps to either have worked on one before or have been the one who took it apart, so don’t rush headlong into this if neither of those applies to you, but I guess you have 6 days to think about it.
Nose looks pretty reasonable. There’s always at least 1 broken off bolt in a front bumper mount on a car like this. It’s hard to judge the quality of a white paint job via small pictures -especially after 5 years!
Update 2/12/12: Elmar informs me this car has been relisted by Laurent with a reduced asking price of €8,900. No less a crazy project!
French build plate. Positive ID. Someone somewhere will decide this is worth fixing. Eventually.
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 1/22/12: I have said it often: you get one chance to have a really good outcome from an eBay auction, and this car is a perfect case study. Round 1: 24 bids resulting in $12,100. Round 2: 17 bids resulting in $7,789. The presence of 2 other Spider projects on eBay during the second round does change things, but they are both later 101 cars and neither is in as good restorable condition as this one. Look for Round 3: 12 bids resulting in $6,456 or, if the seller is savvy (or a reader) they will give the car a month or so, wait for a good one to sell somewhere for $70,000, take new pictures from new angles with the car cleaned up, and list it again. Or they could list it here on my site with a hard purchase price and be patient, like we had to do 10 years ago…
The day is getting close when I will have the Glas 1700 GT in a position where I can work on it, the whole thing -probably early next week. The plan was to have the parts I dragged home and those taken from the parts car ready to bolt on when it turned up. The plan is coming along -but I’m behind schedule -in part due to my getting sidetracked doing more than necessary to fix things up as evidenced by the generator below, and in part due to how long it takes to get parts from Germany. I did get the charging system together though!
This is a Bosch 6 volt generator. I had 3 to choose from to clean up and this one was the cleanest, had best bearings and the best brushes. I suppose I’ll restore the other 2 at some point and have them ready for service -it may be a Bosch, but it is a generator after all, and in my experience they are tempermental.
Update 1/15/12: This car has been loosely assembled, had new pictures taken and relisted on eBay. Seller says to call them (Daniel, 203 778 2601), that they expect to have a strong offer for it and sell it before auctions end. I hope it finished at auction so we get a sense of what a car like this is really worth.
Looks like a car now. I know it needs as much work as one all apart to restore this, but I would make it run and drive with the minimum effort first, enjoy it on the road for a few years then do a gradual nut and bolt. Too bad I don’t have a billionaire benefactor in my readership. A wonderful book about the restoration of it could be produced.
I am assuming this is all just finger tightly assembled, but at least you can see it’s all there. -except the hood latch. Would the hood have been stamped with the body number?
Laurence’s SVC has this color scheme interior, in original condition. This would look amazing if just carefully put together with what you see. Horn ring is busted.
Update 1/14/12: This car has turned up in Australia with an asking price of $32,500 or about $33,400 US. I also got a tip that it was available in Southern California, but apparently, it’s an old link. The seller from 8/2010 confirmed it’s in Australia.
You don’t see this angle often unless you or your neighbor has a Sprint and you have a second story balcony overlooking the parking area. I want a first series Sprint project. Maybe after the 750D project that’s after the Glas GT project.
