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Interesting to read the different comments in this thread. Personally, I do not necessarily have to go for the most desirable or hard to get version within a model range, nor does the car have to be super original. However, if any modifications are made to the car I feel that it has to respect the original design of the car and only add to the drivability of the car.
My Giulia desire started almost 20 years ago, when I visited a car auction with my dad. There was a Giulia on auction which had seen better days - it had a motive similar to that of a trans am on the bonnet. Not having the money to bid, just window shopping, the next time I cam close to a Giulia was just after I had bought a Fiat 850 Sport Coupe with a lot of Abarth tuning gear - great fun to drive. The guy I bough it off had a Berlina with only 60T kms on the clock for sale, but unfortunately, no space in my garage or my economy.
3 years later, he had another Giulia, a 1967 model, 1300 Super with a 2litre engine, brought up from Holland with leather seats and all. But it got sold within a week, just before I got news of it.
But he had another one that he had bought, sitting and waiting in Italy, which I could have first option on buying. Sent me a picture and I couldn't wait to see it in the flesh.
It was a 1972 1300 Super - it had been owned by a Swiss gentlemen who used it to travel between northern Italy and Switzerland. He had it re-sprayed a year ago and in connection with this, wanted the 1300 motor reconditioned. Why recondition this, said his mechanic, hen he had a fully recondition, ported 2 litre unit sitting in the shop. So in went the 2 litre unit, respray in original silver and now off to Denmark to me. Since buying it, I have had it lowered substantially, in the process of having the diff upgraded with a 40% LSD torsen unit and will potentially fit a set of TZ 15x5,5" aluminum rims.
In order to keep rust at bay I have treated it with Dinitrol - when doing the doors, they were found to be totally dry inside. A one inch layer of dried up olive leaves were resting in the bottom of all four doors, and not a sign of surface rust.
The underside was also almost too good to be true - the original black underbody paint was still fully there, the transition at the edges between sills at side to upper body as new.
Have a look a the track day picture from the Fiat days and also the original, pre-lowered photo when my Giulia was still in Italy.