the story behind my 1959 Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint race car
Thanks to Jim Hayes
who sold me the Sprint vintage race car project, and also permitted me to post his history of the Sprint on my site!
The car is coming along, and I'll be updating progress from time to time. Following is Jim's start on the car.
Jim's History: When I started vintage racing in the late 80s, I restored and prepared a '59 Sprint. I raced the
car for 5 years, before a trailing arm broke at Mosport, sending it off the
infamous turn 2 for three snap-rolls! It was too far gone to fix, so we scrapped
it (saving only the hood and all the mechanical bits. I built up my '62 Spider as a new
racecar, using it for SCCA, VARAC and other vintage races, but wanted to have a
VSCCA car too. So I went through several more Spiders, a 59 and a 57, but only
kept them for a few years each. I wanted another Sprint, so I found one I had
owned before - purchased as a donor body for my wrecked Sprint, but sold to
concentrate on the Spider. I bought it back with most of the bodywork done, and
now we're prepping it as a VSCCA racecar.
Jim's first '59 Sprint before...
...and after.
The car is in remarkable shape all things considered!
Jim's blue '59 Spider and the red '57 Spider with hardtop
The car we are working on, before body restoration (ca. 1993)
and after exterior body restoration (November, 2000)
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Updated October 17, 2002