March 6, 2010
Giulietta spider 750d 1495*06473. This Black Plate car is on eBay right now out of Southern California. Seller is not the owner but I know him through the Alfa world and he’s an upstanding guy and not a car dealer so everything in the description should be taken at face value. Starting bid of $5000 is very reasonable considering the effort required to get a car into this condition and ready for final prep and paint. Sure, lots of little stuff needs doing -just about everything in fact, but none of it looks that bad.
This looks very good. Nose features are well defined and this is without filler. Door fit looks good, hard to say about the hood.
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Posted by Matt
February 16, 2010
Giulietta Sprint 750B 01996 is available right now on Italian eBay out of Padua Italy. While incomplete, it looks like a good, albeit expensive start for someone looking for an early car. I’ll be in the market for one when the SS is done -but that may be a while.
Not exactly straight and ready for paint, the drivers side lower grill area looks to be pushed in a little. Dig the string holding the glass in place. Must have been shipped recently.
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Posted by Matt
February 12, 2010
Giulia Spider 10123*372427, 00112*00662. This car, like the Sprint in market 187, is available in Italy from Ghibli Auto Classiche in Umbria. No details are available on their website, but enough pictures are posted to form an opinion. This is a typical example of your ‘fairly complete but needs a lot’ restoration basis.
Curiously both this car and the Sprint they have on offer are missing left hand side headlights. Grill bar from the same side is missing as well. One of the three cars in this picture are what generally come to mind when an American of a certain age sees or hears the words ‘foreign sports car’, and they are taken aback when told there are coupe versions of these cars.
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Posted by Matt
February 11, 2010
Giulietta Sprint 10102*22255, 1315*011518. This car is for sale at Ghibli Auto Classiche right now. At first glance I thought it was one of the projects I’ve written about in the last two years, but looking at the numbers it’s a new face in the story.
Neglect? Check. Missing parts? Check. Only for the optimist? Absolutely! Lots of neat stuff in the background.
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Posted by Matt
February 8, 2010
Update 2/16/10: No bids, no buyer. Patience friend Spider -you’ll have your day.
Giulietta Spider 10103 170124. This car is on eBay right now out of Oregon. Seller has been auctioning off a lot of the little parts over the last couple of weeks and now the rest of the car has to go. I just noticed this car was listed 7 minutes after the Sprint in market 185. Odd how the world works. Opening bid is $3995. No takers as yet.
Looks like the typical scrappy parts car layed up 20 years ago and now maybe worth enough to be promoted from parts car to project. We’ll see. Lots of good parts to be seen, but all need some love to be viable.
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Posted by Matt
February 6, 2010
Update 2/16/10: 27 bidders pushed the price to $1575. Reasonable considering the lack of rust and engine/suspension pieces intact. I bet it ends up a parts car this time around. Anyone here buy it?
Giulietta Sprint 750B 1493*07448. This project is on eBay out of El Paso Texas right now. The price as I write this is $203 and by the looks of things it might stay sub-$1000. This car was probably a Willys-Overland assembled car as it is said to have spent its whole life in Mexico. What you see is what you get. And at close to 150 pictures, there is lots to see!
This is how they look. Wrinkled, uneven and, well, just abused. Shouldn’t be too hard to tap this back out to right.
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Posted by Matt
February 2, 2010
Giulietta Sprint 750B 1493*02880, 1315*02671. This car, a 1956, is available right now from the seller of Market 179, another early Sprint project. Asking price for the pair is about $27,000. I can put you in contact with the seller if you want to figure out a separate price.
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Posted by Matt
February 1, 2010
Update 2/1/10: This is a detail of writing market reports that I hadn’t really anticipated. An update from the purchaser of a car with some progress pictures. This car originally sold in May of 2008 and the owner has just gotten it back from the media blasters. Makes me think I should get mine blasted. Very cool!
I think I need a rotisserie. The rockers look very good.
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Posted by Matt
January 30, 2010
There are restorations and there are restorations. At one end of the spectrum we find cars where efforts are minimal, as cheaply done as possible and focused on creating the illusion of a nice car -usually attended to with the aim of resale on the internet. At the other end of the spectrum are cars whose owners take on the restoration as a personal challenge and lovingly consider every part, sparing no expense in the pursuit of perfection. George Kraus’s efforts on Giulietta Spider Veloce 10107*167952 are definitely among the latter.
Very nice indeed! Giulietta Spiders look great in black with red interior. Note the European specification side markers, same design as a Sprint Speciale and later boat tail spiders.
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Posted by Matt
January 29, 2010
Update 2/11/10: Auction ended with no bids. Not surprising considering the lack of pictures of the parts. I’d rewrite the auction, reconsider the pictures, include an inventory and try again.
Giulietta Spider 10103*169178. This car, with its very odd selection of pictures is on eBay right now with an opening bid of $4995. It is pretty far apart and none of the parts are pictured, but the shell looks good, with only a little surface rust accenting the bright blue paint. It’s amazing how many Spiders there are in this condition!
Looks about right. Floors are solid and the hard to find lower seat tracks are present. Steering wheel is without cracks. Good starting point for a thousand hour trek. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Matt
January 28, 2010
Update 1/28/10: A respectable 30 bidders made their play for this car and someone is taking it home for $21,100. I feel redundant saying it, but it’s likely headed for Europe, to be listed on some site there for 25,000 Euro’s or more. So it goes.
Giulietta Spider Veloce 10107*171715, 00106*00587. This car, an original California Black Plate car is on eBay out of Florida. Sounds like the usual ‘got it, started to take it apart and then got distracted’ scenario. Would be neat to see someone in California step up and reclaim one of our exports.
I would drop the engine back in, do the brakes, give it a polish and go. Front trim has great patina -keep it so.
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Posted by Matt
January 27, 2010
Update 1/27/10: Well wonder no more, this car is now on Italian eBay for 8900 Euros or $12,478 at time of writing. I guess a trip across the Atlantic and the addition of a mystery 750 engine adds $9500. I’m in the wrong business.
Update 10/20/09: 11 bids got this thing to $3100. Not bad for a rolling shell. The lack of rust had me thinking $4000. I wonder where it is headed?
Giulietta Spider 10103 1495*10862. This car is on eBay right now out of Livorna New York. There are at least 2 eBay sellers that regularly post vintage Alfa parts for sale form this town. This car is pretty similar body-wise to the subject of Market 153, but doesn’t come with much in the way of parts if they’re not seen in the pictures and attached to the car.
Looks about average really for one of these that has been off the road for ever and picked over by vultures during that time. Nose sheetmetal is rough but I’ve seen and owned rougher. There are a lot of little parts here, so it could be worse.
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