Most Desireable Giulias?

[101/105guy]

Some beautiful cars posted here and a lot of great info for the average Alfisti who has not experienced these wonderful models.

I think that one has to get as much info and see as many different models to find out which combination truely fits your own ideas for the "perfect Giulia".
Once you see the vast selection of cars in Europe (each with it's own combination of price, originality, collectability, and performance) the choices become harder!

Randy

[JudgeDredd]

oh i agree. i've become addicted to Autoscout 24. i check it every day and have most available Giulias in Europe memorized. sad part is that i can't pull the trigger just yet. if it wasn't for that, there'd be at least one Giulia on it's way over the big pond.

[101/105guy]

If you think that really nice Supers can't be driven......
here's a pic of my wife and I in Roland's wonderful Bianca! We were visiting in our search for a good car to bring home and Roland invited us along on a Dutch Alfa Club rally! This was my first time behind the wheel of a Super and we spent the entire day touring the lanes and villages in Holland. You could say that I was instantly hooked! Many thanks for the outstanding hospitality of Roland (and his courage, I had never driven in Europe before!!!)

[JudgeDredd]

totally agree Randy, but if i say one more nice thing about Roland, his wife will think we're having an affair. it's enough i lust after his Alfas in my heart, and you know how Jimmy Carter feels about that.

[Giulia Bianca]

Thanks for the compliments

@ Randy, yep, that was fun !!!

About the blue TI, car had a very expensive repaint but was a very unmolested rustfree car, it only suffered from faded paint, it is for sale at the moment because the current owner found his dream Giulia after a 5 year search, a 62 drum brake dark grey TI in concours condition, I don't know the actual asking price but will be around €12000 to €14000

[alfavirusnz]

I can see the attraction of having one of the very first, unmolested Giulia`s. A bit of one upmanship too I guess but the purest version I guess, closest to the design teams intention and with lots of interesting bits like those brilliant drum brakes and 5 speed column change. if you see it for what it is -a vintage car-it may be the coolest version (but not the most practical or nicest to drive daily)
I think all of us would agree the Ti Super is the pinnacle of Giulia sedans and maybe the first Supers after that but I`m a fan of the earlier cars (greater quirkiness), the Ti`s with floor change and best colour -graphite grey(vested interest) White, the dark blues and maroon are in my opinion the best colours. As someone said earlier Giulia sedans do not suit red but what the heck they are all gorgeous and great to drive.
By the way I don`t know what the problem is with the Dunlop disc system is but I`ve never had any problems with it myself ( I live in a dry temperate climate)and they are on Jaguars of the same era, and Lancias and provide good stopping power, good handbrake and are basically as easy to service as the ATE system-I am certainly going to retain mine.

Richard J

`65 Giulia Ti, `69 GT Junior, `74 GTV 2000, `76 Alfetta GTV, `77 Alfetta GTV, `84 GTV6

[JudgeDredd]

Roland, thanks for the link. i'd love to do that sort of photography professionally.

[101/105guy]

It's one of my favorite colors also.
As we have seen in the pics, if the car is in wonderful condition most every color looks good !

Here are the cars I brought from Germany (Thanks Roland !) 2 years ago:

'70 1600 S
57k kms (33k miles)
All original
The closest that I could get to owning a brand new Giulia!

'68 Super
123k kms (77k miles)
Very original, one repaint
A sweet driver!
Considering selling her. You know... Always Looking For Another

[Alfonse22]

What Jason said; and not just because mine is a twin to his (at least originally).

[perholmen]

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.