[Andrew]

I have posted a few pics of my dawn grey 1956 Giulietta Berlina project, and some have asked me to post more, so I thought I'd start a thread. This is a project car I bought from Bill Gillham in Dec. 2007, which has been off the road for about 30 years. It ran briefly in Bill's care, but mainly to get on and off trailers. With his many activities, Bill did not get around to sorting it out. I will try to make a real car out of it.

I'm not oriented to complete tear-down restorations, and so will try to do a "running restoration," even though the car is not currently operable. We'll see how I do.

The car is complete (original engine and presumably trans), and came with a ton of good used and NOS parts, including five extra doors. The body is not as bad as it looks in the pictures, though the door bottoms are rusty, and there is some underbody rust to fix. For now, my plan is to get the engine operable and see how it runs, get the brakes working, bolt in the front bench seat, and see if it will drive. Some bushings in the column shift linkage are needed before I'll be able to get all the gears.

So here goes with the pics. First five are general pics of the car, including showing the grille, which is the same piece as on a Giulietta Spider, the engine compartment, and the rear license light/trunk handle, a beautiful piece. Some models had light shining out through the Alfa Romeo script, but not this early Berlina.

Andrew