Alfa Sprint Veloce - $500, Cleveland, NMNA

I think I may have posted this before; the price has dropped rapidly, so I'm guessing it will be heading to the scrapper soon if no one picks it up .

Alfa

For sale is a 1978 alfa Sprint. This car has been sitting for 15 years and needs gone through. The body is solid and so is underneath which is almost impossible to find on these cars. Next to impossible finding these kind of cars. Would be worth getting it running and driving again. Clean title. Text or call

Pretty. And I have a thing for silver cars. Shame I only have the budget to buy it and not ship it.

1 photo and no price?

I should clarify, in the add. I see a price in the thread title but not the add

Price is in the title of the ad listing. $499, so you save a dollar!

nutherjrfan wrote: Pretty. And I have a thing for silver cars. Shame I only have the budget to buy it and not ship it.

Contact patgizz, I think he's local-ish to this, and you guys might be able to work out temp storage/delivery.

In reply to IndyJoe:

Don't say that! That'smy biggest excuse for not getting it

Have you seen the completely rusted out hulks of Porsche 911's and 912's people restore these days? But yet a complete and supposedly solid example like this beautiful Alfa hasn't sold yet for $500? I will never understand people.

So is this the FWD boxer engined car we never really got in the US? How did it get here and end up for sale at $500? so many questions...

In reply to dculberson:

I think it is really an Alfetta.

Here is the best I could come up with for a 78 Alfa Sprint: Here is a 78 Alfetta (euro bumpers):

In reply to SEADave:

It is an alfetta

dculberson wrote: So is this the FWD boxer engined car we never really got in the US? How did it get here and end up for sale at $500? so many questions...

That would be an Alfasud. Luckily the car for sale is not one of those.

In reply to dculberson:

front engine, should be a 2 liter, with a transaxle and DeDion rear suspension. Kind of a halfway point between Spiders and GTV6's as far as driveline.

markwemple wrote: In reply to IndyJoe: Don't say that! That'smy biggest excuse for not getting it

I'm an enabler

Alfa Romeo sold the Alfetta as both the "Alfetta GT/GTV" and as the "Alfa Sprint Veloce." As far as I know, the Alfasud FWD boxer-engined model included an "Alfasud Sprint" model in the range, but it was always called an "Alfasud Sprint" and never an "Alfa Sprint."

Ahh, that makes sense. I'd never heard the Alfa Sprint Veloce name before but had heard of an Alfetta. Limited google searching sent me to the Alfasud Sprint.

Alfettas make great lemons cars! This is priced right!

patgizz wrote:

markwemple wrote: In reply to IndyJoe: Don't say that! That'smy biggest excuse for not getting it

I'm an enabler

Ok I'll bite. What kind of enablement are we thinking?

nutherjrfan wrote:

patgizz wrote:

markwemple wrote: In reply to IndyJoe: Don't say that! That'smy biggest excuse for not getting it

I'm an enabler

Ok I'll bite. What kind of enablement are we thinking?

i messaged you and texted the seller to see what he's doing wednesday. i'm coming east empty in a few weeks.

In reply to patgizz:

How do I access messages?

In reply to nutherjrfan:

It will be in whatever email is attached to your account.

Not heard back from seller yet

My first car was a '77 Alfetta GT like this one. Blue, and then red, though.

If the engine is original- don't be to bummed by the performance- there's a lot in the 2.0l that is pretty sharp. My car's engine is the same, and it's quite fun.

It's a cool car.

But I do prefer the 105/115 cars to the 116 cars.

Heard back, still available.