1963 Giulia Sprint Speciale – AR*381173
For the past year, I have been making some progress on all of the five cars under assembly, but for some reason, the Green SS work is starting to pick up some steam as of late. I wonder if since most of the SS chrome work is back, and I do not want it sitting…
August 28th was for me the longest day since College where I burned the midnight oil studying for a final exams; that was what it felt like last night. Rigo my painter and I had a respectively long day of work. Rigo arrives at the shop around 6:30pm after leaving his day job to get…
Trying to get caught up has become an insurmountable task since returning home from a well deserved “vacation” in Spain. Note that I included quotations to the word vacation because I did manage to do some work on a couple of Giulia spiders while in Spain. But for now, it is time to celebrate a…
While mapping the work to be completed on any project we tend to overlook the specific details and the SS we just completed was no exception. Some of the important details were either missing or consumed with corrosion. I was fortunate enough to have an unmolested SS sitting three cars away that ultimately became our…
Many, and I mean many, hours of work and Giulia Sprint Speciale 381173 is, I am happy to say is… on its way to redemption. All the rust has been replaced, all the floors are done, and we are finishing our way around the outside metal. The driver side outer skin is almost done but I wanted to share a few…
Work on the SS continues at an incredible pace and now that the undercarriage is completely cleaned of rust, tart, fiber glass as well as paint. All the rusted body parts have been removed and new parts have been fabricated. We don’t get to use our English Wheel often, but this time it worked like…
Restoration on Sprint Speciale 381173 started on December 28th, 2012 and as of today we have logged 280 hrs. So, what has been done in 280 hrs? Removing everything from the car except suspension. Paint stripping, bondo, fiber glass, undercoating, and sand blasting. Metal fabrication of floors, door frames, sills, jack point boxes, crick boxes and floor pans…
The SS doors where in a complete state of disrepair and new frames had to be made along with 3 quarters of the door skin on one door and about 1 quarter of the other door.
Below are photos of the most recent progress on the front and rear floor pan. We opted to preserve as much as the original seat rail support as possible. When we replaced the inner sills support section we punched and flared the holes for added strength. Originally the inner supports on the SS where solid…
The extensive metal repair process has begun.
