Market 553: This Spider 01381 raced SCCA F manufacturing with Shankle sponsorship

Giulieta Spider 750D 1495*01381.  Out there in the present day on eBay, nonetheless sporting signature interval paint, is the Shankle sponsored Blizzard Efficiency Manufacturing F Giulietta Spider.  It raced SCCA F Manufacturing again within the day when it was a grassroots skilled factor that you simply needed to attend to see races, and “common guys” might arrange and race.  Critically race.  I can’t say what the demand for a automotive like that is.  Since I've stored this weblog I've seen a couple of promote for approach lower than I assumed they ought, and some promote for far more.  I assume provide and demand forces of the market will tell us.

I really feel like I’ve seen these interval footage earlier than.  That’s a critical attachment to the nostril – I'm wondering if it labored?  Neat previous decide up again there too.

The previous appeared totally different.  How a lot have we modified? 

Interval sighting of Data ’70 font on that Trick sticker.  Wheel wells have been modified barely to accommodate the yuge tires seen within the interval footage above.

The previous electrical tape wrap job on the steering wheel.  Gauges are all enterprise.  Good little aerodynamic cowl on the rear view.

Extra artifacts from the 1970’s race scene.  Distant oil filer is a pleasant contact.

There are plenty of footage of the suspension arrange.  This arrange pictured above is all designed to maintain the rear axle the place it’s alleged to be.  Observe drilled brake backing plates.

Some random stuff – one would need to know the quantity on that block.

From the public sale:  “Here's a very particular piece of Alfa Romeo racing historical past of the 1970’s. This automotive is a time capsule and has not been seen by most of the people because the mid 1980’s. The 1957 Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider AR 1495.01381 of Blizzard Efficiency Automotive.

This can be a traditionally vital SCCA F Manufacturing race automotive with a particular provenance and nicely documented racing historical past that was profitable in interval in SCCA Nationwide and Regional entered occasions. This automotive could be very well-known by SCCA racers and Alfa followers alike in interval. This Alfa Romeo racing treasure was raced and entered by Blizzard Efficiency Automotive in interval and sponsored by Alfa Romeo racign engine prep and tuner Shankle. The automotive is in it’s unique 1970’s SCCA racing livery with it’s interval racing paint from the 70’s, nearly un-touched with all it’s patina from it’s final race. This automotive is an actual time capsule from Alfa Romeo SCCA racing historical past. This automotive entered, podiumed and gained many regional and nationwide SCCA races in interval. The automotive gained the each the 1976 and 1978 SCCA Regional Championship Race for F-Manufacturing(FP) at Riverside Worldwide Raceway.

This automotive is the matching sister staff automotive to the Dick Blizzard Giulietta Spider that gained the SCCA Nationwide Street Racing Championship in FP in 1976, sponsored by Shankle. This automotive is the only survivor of the 2 as the opposite automotive was destroyed. The automotive has it’s unique racing rollbar and unique SCCA quantity stamped and recorded by the SCCA CalClub of the Southern Pacific Division in interval, circa 1970’s.

The automotive is extremely mild and has many trick interval racing elements nonetheless on the automotive because it initially raced with from the 70’s and 80’s. We consider this automotive was a race automotive for the overwhelming majority of it’s life (early 1960’s-early 1980’s) an enormous time span for a automotive to be a profitable, aggressive race automotive. Automotive comes with a recognized historical past and footage of it racing in interval in addition to scans of racing publications the automotive was in similar to: ( ‘End Line’ Official Publication of the California Sports activities Automotive Membership).

Racing elements on the automotive. The automotive has most all of it’s unique 70’s particular elements it raced with in interval.

• ·      Fiberglass racing bucket drivers seat.
• ·      Trick aluminum suspension, and racing springs and shocks.
• ·      Customized sway bars and aluminum mounts.
• ·      Customized circa 70’s racing brake modifications.
• ·      Chrome steel braided brake strains.
• ·      Customized racing oil pan higher and decrease sump with oil scavenging safety.
• ·      All circa 70’s racing sprint gauges the automotive raced with in interval, and so forth.
• ·      Gasoline Cell circa 70’s
• –   Racing Accusump
•     Racing battery field and exterior racing battery bounce with exterior hookups at rear of automotive.
•     Racing oil cooler and features.
•     Interval Private racing steering wheel

The automotive does have some drivers aspect injury the place the headlight and entrance fender is that may must be repaired. There are numerous different areas of the automobiles physique that wants consideration however general excellent for a particular race automotive that has sat because the early 80’s. The automotive is in want of restoration. Because of the automotive’s paint, physique and decals we might hope that work can be carried out to maintain the automobiles unique racing patina because it was in interval and nonetheless as it's at the moment. We might hope the brand new proprietor would hold as a lot of it unique and as is as potential and race with it wanting as unique because it did in interval! All unique racing elements presently on automotive and people that include the automotive must be rigorously checked out and restored (an inventory of elements that include the automotive are listed under). What can also be very particular is that this well-known race automotive shall be eligible for all of the BIG prestigious classic racing occasions in the US with it’s vital interval racing historical past and well-known livery. As well as the automotive can be extremely aggressive in it’s class.

This automobiles sister automotive as talked about above was an enormous killer and beat the Triumph Spitfires and British Leyland’s in interval in 1975 and 1976. Automotive is a time capsule. It nonetheless has it’s trick aluminum suspension and lots of different particular race elements it raced with in interval.

Recognized particulars about this automotive.

• Very early and uncommon 1957 Giulietta Spider. The automotive was manufactured on Feb. 15th 1957 and bought new in Rome, Italy as verified with a letter by Alfa Romeo Storico Mueseo.
• The automotive has the identical livery and paint because it was when it raced within the 70’s and early 80’s. It's untouched from that interval.
• It was advised to me that the early race historical past of the automotive was that it raced within the early 60’s in Southern California with The California Sports activities Automotive (CSCC) group (previous to 1964 earlier than the merger of CSCC and the SCCA) at tracks in Glendora, Pomona and Riverside by Dennis McGrew earlier than there was a robust SCCA contingency.
• The automotive was then bought by Robert (Bob) Inexperienced, teammate to Richard Blizzard. These two entered and raced the automobiles at Nationwide SCCA occasions at: Riverside, Portland, Sears Level, Laguna Seca, Ft. Sumner, Bonneville, Hopeville, Phoenix, Willow Springs, Carlsbad. There residence SCCA membership was Cal Membership within the Southern Pacific SCCA area. The automotive was entered in some Nationwide and Regional occasions from (70″-81″) by Robert (Bob) Greene and later raced by Kathy and David Rice (81″-85″).
• Unique quantity stamped SCCA rollbar is within the automotive, stamped by SCCA CalClub in interval. Information verified with CalClub and documented by CalClub in our data..
• The automotive was extremely fast, mild and extremely aggressive in interval . I used to be informed it held a FP monitor document at Willow Springs within the 1:35s low 1:36’s in interval.
• The automotive ran a documented 1:23:77 at Laguna Seca Raceway (LSR) on June 2, 1974. We've got footage of the automotive gong down the down the corkscrew forward of the well-known Alfa Romeo GTV John Norman. (See image).
• Automotive and drivers have been sponsored by Shankle in interval.
• SCCA tech sticker nonetheless hooked up to the automotive’s unique rollbar. We consider it was the automobiles final entered race a SCCA Regional held on eight/12/1985 as documented on the rollbar tech sticker.
• We consider the automotive gained a nationwide race in 1982 as the unique SCCA profitable occasion sticker that's on the automobiles cowl.

Partial race entries the place I've footage of entry’s, time sheets and/or SCCA Membership Newsletters:

• June 2, 1974 – SCCA Regional Race, San Francisco Area. at Laguna Seca Raceway (LSR). Automotive entered as #61 in F-Manufacturing (FP) entered by Bob Greene. Quickest lap of 1:23:77. That point was good for a prime three out of a 21 automotive subject in F&G Manufacturing. Supply: Entry/Time sheet from occasion.

• October 5-6, 1974 – SCCA CC Regional Race at Willow Springs Worldwide Raceway. Automotive #61 2^nd in Class in F-Manufacturing (FP).  Supply: End Line Information Letter, November 1974. (Official Publication of the California Sports activities Automotive Membership).

• Might 1975 SCCA CC Regional Race at Willow Springs Worldwide Raceway. Automotive #61 three^rd  in Class in F-Manufacturing (FP).  Supply: End Line Information Letter, Might 1975. (Official Publication of the California Sports activities Automotive Membership).

• June 27, 1976 – SCCA Northern Division Pacific Championship Races, SF Area at Laguna Seca. Automotive entered as #61 in F-Manufacturing (FP) entered by Bob Greene (CC/Cal Membership). Supply: Entry Listing/Official Race outcomes.

• August 21-22 1976 – SCCA Regional Championship Street Races at Sears Level Raceway, Sonoma, CA. Automotive is listed as CC (Cal Membership) #61 entered in F-Manufacturing (FP) entered by Robert Greene. Supply: Entry Listing.

• August 29, 1976 – SCCA Regional Championship Races, SF Area at Riverside Worldwide Raceway; 1^st in Class in F-Manufacturing (FP).Supply: End Line Information Letter, September 1976. (Official Publication of the California Sports activities Automotive Membership).

• October 2 & three 1976- SCCA CC Regional Race at Willow Springs Worldwide Raceway  2^nd in Class in F-Manufacturing (FP) entered by Bob Greene (CC/Cal Membership). Supply: End Line publication November 1976.
  • Image of this automotive #61 in interval at Laguna Seca (down the corkscrew).
  • One of many Alfa GTV’s in again of it's and was a really profitable Trans-Am automotive. You possibly can see how briskly this Giulietta was in interval whereas forward of far more highly effective automobiles in interval.

• Might 29, 1978 SCCA Regional Championship Races at Riverside Worldwide Raceway; 1^st in Class in F-Manufacturing (FP). Supply: End Line Information Letter, Might/June 1978. (Official Publication of the California Sports activities Automotive Membership).

• June, 1978 SCCA Tremendous Nationals Regional Championship Races at Riverside Worldwide Raceway; three^rd  in Class in F-Manufacturing (FP).Supply: End Line Information Letter, June 1978. (Official Publication of the California Sports activities Automotive Membership).

• The automotive has a 1982 Nationwide Winner sticker on it’s windscreen. We consider the automotive had a single SCCA win at a Nationwide race in 1982.

Unfastened elements that include the automotive:

• Automobiles unique 70’s aluminum airbox.
• Automobiles further racing trunk.
• Automobiles unique racing exhaust manifold
•  Veloce Spider exhaust manifold
• 6 of it’s unique magnesium racing wheels and four Goodyear Slicks from interval.
• four OEM Giulietta wheels presently on automotive.
• 1300 block
• Additional drum brake with unique hub mount.
• Racing oil dump with slosh management.
• Driveshaft
• Radiator
• Numerous different elements.

The automotive is at present owned by a very long time Alfa Romeo collector with a big Alfa Romeo assortment. We had meant to get the automotive again out on the monitor on the Rolex Montery Motorsports Reunion, Sonoma Historic’s, SVRA Historic Championships, and so on and for it to shine in glory once more because it did in years previous! Really a one in every of a sort piece of Alfa Romeo historical past within the USA.

Please be happy to message me any and any and all questions that you could have.

As vendor I reserve the appropriate to finish the public sale early.

Grazie!!”