ALFA ROMEO GIULIETTA SPRINT, 1959

I first came across this Alfa when I bought it from Nick Mason (of Pink Floyd), some seven years ago. It is now my pleasure to be able to offer the car for sale once again, it having resided in the same ownership since 2013.

As one might expect for a car coming from a world class collection, it has all the right things going for it: this exceptional 750 series Giulietta Sprint was completed on 18th July 1958 and supplied new in the UK via Thomson & Taylor of Cobham, being registered here in January 1959. Still with the car are the original handbooks and original buff logbook. The few previous owners are fully documented and looking back through the history file, the mileage of c 69,261 is almost certainly correct. The motor car also still wears its original registration mark, 88 JPA, and is still possessed of its original engine, 4-speed gearbox and rear axle. It even still wears its original colour scheme, having been supplied by the Factory in black. All of these important details are further documented by the accompanying Certificato Di Origine, as supplied by Alfa Romeo.

Nick Mason acquired the Alfa in the late 1980s and a full, all-encompassing and evidently ‘no-expense spared’ restoration was embarked upon in 1990. This was to take some ten years to bring to completion and is fully documented both photographically and with accompanying invoices.

Nothing escaped attention, from the bodywork and paintwork, the wholly and beautifully re-trimmed interior, to the mechanics, where the already apparently excellent engine was treated to a comprehensive overhaul and conversion to accept unleaded petrol.

Since completion of this process in 2000, only some 2700 miles have been covered in the intervening 20 years and the Alfa remains in exceptionally fine condition today.

Despite having seen only sparing use since the restoration, the car has nevertheless benefited from regular and detailed ongoing maintenance and has recently had the original Borrani wheels refinished and the engine bay further detailed (since the engine bay photographs here were taken).

A beautiful ticket into some of the best events.

I will leave you with the eminent journalist John Bolster’s comments on the Giulietta Sprint, writing in AUTOSPORT magazine, two months after this car was first registered: “There are certain cars which are acknowledged throughout the motor sporting world as being thoroughbreds, and among these the Alfa Romeo Giulietta stands very high. Indeed, I would go so far as to suggest that, if a poll of the readers of AUTOSPORT were undertaken, the Sprint …….. would be voted just about the most desirable car that money can buy.”

He goes on to tell that the car supplied for the road test was loaned from Thomson & Taylor of Cobham, the very institution which had supplied this beautiful motor car new just two months previously.

£ SOLD