The Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider helped establish the brand’s reputation in the American market during the 1950s. Styled by Pinin Farina and powered by Alfa Romeo’s advanced twin-cam four-cylinder engine, it combined light weight, lively performance and elegant proportions in a package that appealed equally to sports car enthusiasts and everyday drivers. Many spent decades… Read More Hidden since ’79: 1958 Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider
This example is attractive as it belongs to the first-series short wheelbase models, produced from 1955 to 1959, before Alfa Romeo lengthened the chassis. From the few photos available, the car appears complete and in overall decent condition, with straight bodywork, original hubcaps, and a period-correct interior. However, no images of the engine bay, trunk,… Read More Low priced swb: 1957 Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider
This Giulietta Spider offers an attractive package for its future owner: it is a short-wheelbase model, originally painted black with red interior, and most importantly, it is one of the first 100 units produced—specifically chassis number 56. Moreover, its future owner will have the unique bragging rights of owning a car built in the same… Read More #56: 1956 Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider
The Giulietta Spider is an icon of the automotive world, alongside other cars such as the FIAT 500, the Porsche 356/911, teh Volkswagen Beetle, the Jaguar E-Type, and a few others. In particular, we’re talking about a Tipo 750, also known as the “Passo Corto” or SWB. By now, there are very few left to… Read More Normale: 1958 Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider
This swb Giulietta Spider has a rich history in the San Francisco Bay Area, with registration records tracing back to 1971. The seller says that In 2018, a full bare metal repaint was expertly matched to the original Rosso color by a local painter renowned for his work on high-end Italian sports cars. Under the… Read More SWB Project: 1958 Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider
The body color is the most “summery” you could wish for, and its name is also evocative: Bahama Yellow. The aforementioned color was applied to the bodywork of a Porsche 911 which was still part of the so-called “zero series”, i.e. the 901 series as the 911 was initially christened. However, when Peugeot (which had… Read More Summer outside: 1966 Porsche 911
We have always wondered why most European cars were sold new in California, and perhaps one of the answers is that the morphology of the terrain is the one most similar to the Italian one in the rest of the USA. Consequently, a nimble little car, even one with not as much horsepower as a… Read More SWB project: 1957 Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider
There are still some around in unrestored condition, but here comes the dilemma: spend the money on the restoration or buy a restored one? Between the two alternatives, at the end of the day, there is no difference. Differently from a few years ago, when original spare parts could be found (much better than that… Read More Rough steel: 1958 Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider Veloce
For lovers of the Porsche brand, there is no 911 more “pure” than the first series, also known as the “zero series”. Of course, the earlier the better. This specimen belongs to the aforementioned series, and is also one of the first built as the first 200 approximately were built starting from August 1964 and… Read More Very SWB: 1965 Porsche 911
Although it looks like one of the many Giulietta Spider that you see around, this is a Veloce and it is also the swb version, so it is rarer than you imagine. The most “precious” of this series is that of 1957 as it seems, at least by consulting Fusi’s book, that in the first… Read More Short and grey: 1958 Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider Veloce
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