750 Series Giulietta Spider

[1750GTV]

Engine is also slowly coming together ...

Chris

[1750GTV]

Engine is done and the floors are in the car.

Getting along with it now.

Chris

[Craig_m67]

Cripes, that's lovely!
Has it been painted or just vapor blasted?

[1750GTV]

Both - vapour blasted first then coated with a clear heat-proof lacquer (Dupli-Color High Heat Clear with Ceramic).

The guys at Classic Carbs (www.classiccarbs.com.au) did the rebuild. They are a Father/Son-in-law team who have a great passion for Alfas, particularly 750/101 Giuliettas.

Chris

[Davidm1600]

Hey Craig, I am so impressed by just how well the engine came up.

I need to get a set of webers I have for my Giulia Ti rebuilt so it is really good to see the quality of their work.  Thanks for the weblink to them.

[ItalCarGuy]

They did my engine too. I was very happy with their work. Its coming along very nicely Chris!

[1750GTV]

Thanks. Nothing that a mountain of cash can't fix ... 

Chris

[Davidm1600]

I seemed to recall that you too might have used these guys for yours Derek as well.  Out of interest, can you guys give a roughish indication as to what to expect the cost of restoring a set of webers might be.

[1750GTV]

Final photos of the engine.

Hopefully I pick it up next weekend.

Chris

[1750GTV]

... and the rest.

Merry Xmas,
Chris

[1750GTV]

The instruments are now cleaned, checked and restored.

I still have the original US instruments but as they were in a very sad state, I decided to source some good European ones instead. The ones I finally bought were in good condition but needed cleaning, new chrome and new dial faces.

I'm leaning toward converting the car to European specification as I also have the correct tail lights, head lights, front indicators, decals and now, instruments. I think the only other difference was the presence of 1/4 windows though I've seen lots of original first series European cars without them.

Chris

[1750GTV]

The underside is finished.

Now they move to the hammer & dolly work on the upper side of the body.

It's starting to look like a car again ...

Chris

[massiveluvbuddy67]

A fantastic effort thus far and my sincere congratulations.

Keep up the great work.

Best Regards
Phil

[1750GTV]

Thanks Phil.

I must say that at the moment I feel more like a bemused onlooker. Most of the work is way beyond my meagre capabilities and is being completed by competent specialists. When the time comes I will do the reassembly, but until then, I'm just handing out wads of cash ...

It's not a 'money's no object' restoration, but I am determined to do this only once and do it well. My wife is a little concerned because I may have already spied my next project

Chris

[Davidm1600]

Hi Chris

A little inspiration for you.  I went down to the Italian Fiesta yesterday and this little veloce gem turned up.  I had fun with the Iphone, trying different photographic modes to capture it.  Cheers Dave