cost of Giuliettas

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I have always known the inflation effect on the price of cars but it had not dawned on me just how expensive these old Alfas were.
If a Giulietta SS went for a tad over 5K in 1962 that translates into some big bucks in 2003 dollars.
Gas. which has inflated less than the cost of living, is about eight times as expensive, (if gas cost spikes are deleted). Raw land would be a good factor but I don't know those figures. Houses, in part because of regulations and proximity don't equate well but the cost rise is by a factor of twenty, more or less per market. Anyway I would think you could say the rise in inflation is over ten times and less than twenty times.
With those figures that little SS would take between 50,000 dollars and 100,000 to buy in 1962, if you could go back in time and buy that car with today's money. The same general range would go for a spider or berlina, less what, ten or twenty grand. Still big money.

Imagine buying a Sprint Veloce and telling the factory to dump the body and have Zagato build a new one. Got to be close to $200,000 or more!

It would take a special type person to spend that kind of money for a car, of course a run of the mill American battle cruiser ran, I'm guessing, ten to thirty grand.

No wonder an old Alfa owner would rather put the car in a barn than sell it for peanuts.

[AlfaTaso]

They're all worth $1,000,000 each to me; the old Alfa owner should not have been so cheap and have fixed that beautiful car; now it's mine and in good hands.

[rcess]

Yes, the Giuliettas were expensive; a Giuliettta Sprint, such as my '59, cost roughly $4,000 when new. Contrast that to the first new car I purchased, a '60 Mercury Comet that cost $1600.

Bob

[dretceterini]

been very expensive relative to other marques. A 6c2500 cost more than a Cadillac in the 40s and 50s.

[geh458]

I was looking at a '57 Giulietta Sprint that was up near Toronto earlier this year, before I bought my '67 GTV, and the guy wanted some where in the neighborhood of $18,500US, I can't remember for sure. It was setup for vintage racing, had a roll cage, fuel cell, etc., but it also came with all of the interior pieces if someone had a mind to restore it to street use.