Auction Watch • 1965 Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint GT • Cars & Bids
Ciao,Giulia.
A red, GTA-style 1965 Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint GT just hit Cars & Bids. It is my actual dream car, so I did the math on what it will cost somebody who isn't me.
Breaking news from the dream-car desk
This Is the One. I'm Not Being Dramatic.
I'm a Honda guy now. I drive a yellow 1991 Honda Beat, I write about tiny Japanese cars, and just last week I spent a whole post on a Honda City with a scooter in the back. So it should mean something when I tell you my actual, no-kidding dream car is Italian, red and born in 1965.
And one just showed up. This 1965 Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint GT on Cars & Bids is red over black, with a 1.75-liter twin-cam four swapped in for the original 1.6, twin Weber carburetors, a 5-speed manual, four-wheel disc brakes, lowering springs, 15-inch Alfaholics GTA-style wheels, an Autodelta roll hoop and GT Veloce bucket seats. It shows 13,500 miles, true mileage unknown. Clean Montana title. The car lives in California.
Here's my hot take: it's not a GTA, and that's exactly why a normal human can buy it.
What you're looking at
A Bertone Coupe Wearing Its Race Suit
The 105-series Giulia Sprint GT is Alfa's early-'60s coupe: a Bertone body, a 1.6-liter twin-cam four, five speeds and disc brakes at all four corners, back when plenty of family cars were still stopping on drums. Early cars like this one have the "step nose," a little ledge where the hood stops short of the grille. People who love these cars will tell you about the step nose whether you ask or not. I am now one of those people.
Then, in 1965, Alfa built the real weapon. The GTA's "A" stands for alleggerita, Italian for lightened. Aluminum outer panels were bonded and riveted over thinner steel, the engine got a twin-plug head, and the dry weight dropped to about 1,640 pounds. Alfa built 500 of them to make it legal to race, and racing division Autodelta turned them into a problem for everybody else on the grid.
Real ones cost real money now. A 1965 Giulia Sprint GTA sold on Bring a Trailer for $156,888 in August 2025.
This car is the other thing: a GTA-style build, reportedly finished around 2019 by DV Mechanics. GTA-pattern front end, doors and rear valance, GTA-style door handles, the green four-leaf clover on the fenders, lowered in front, cut springs and lightweight trailing arms in back. It looks like it's leaving for a hillclimb in 1966, and it says "style" right there in the listing title. I respect the honesty.
Under the hood
1750 Twin-Cam, Two Webers, Zero Chill
The 1.75-liter swap is the right move. It's a bigger version of the same Alfa twin-cam family, the engine Alfa later used in the 1750 GTV, so it bolts into the story without starting an argument. Well, a small argument. Alfa people argue about everything.
Feeding it are two side-draft Weber carburetors (the photos show 45 DCOEs), which is the induction version of talking with your hands. Add headers, an aluminum radiator and a custom sump guard, and you have a 60-year-old engine bay that looks ready to go do something irresponsible on a mountain pass.
I'm a CPA, so here we go
My Price Prediction
Bidding sat at $30,000 with six days left and four bids in. That's not the price. That's people clearing their throats. Here's what similar Giulias actually did lately on Bring a Trailer.
| The Comps and the Math | Damage |
|---|---|
| 1965 Giulia Sprint GT, 1,750cc swap (BaT, Sep 2026) | $49,500 |
| 1964 Giulia Sprint GT, 1.8L, GTA-style wheels, Webers (BaT, May 2026) | $64,000 |
| 1965 Giulia Sprint GT, 1.6L (BaT, Mar 2026) | $61,000 |
| 1965 Giulia Sprint GT (BaT, Sep 2026), bid to, not sold | $36,750 |
| A real 1965 Giulia Sprint GTA (BaT, Aug 2025) | $156,888 |
| This car, high bid with six days left | $30,000 |
| My predicted hammer price | $50,000 |
| Plus Cars & Bids 5% buyer's fee | $2,500 |
| Predicted winning bidder's check, before shipping | $52,500 |
Comps are Bring a Trailer sold results for 105-series Giulia Sprint GT and GTA coupes; the $36,750 car didn't sell, so it counts as a ceiling, not a sale. Buyer's fee per Cars & Bids: 5%, $250 minimum, $7,500 maximum. The $50,000 is my guess, made Oct. 27, 2026, with six days left. Shipping not included because I refuse to guess what a truck from California costs in November.
Why $50,000? The closest comp is that 1,750cc-swapped 1965 that sold for $49,500 in September. This one brings more of the good stuff: the GTA-style panels, Alfaholics wheels, roll hoop and a fresh-looking interior. It also brings true mileage unknown on a rebuilt metric cluster, corrosion under the rocker panels and a non-original engine, which purists will mention in the comments, twice.
My range is $46,000 to $56,000. My gut says the hammer falls right around $50,000.
That's the look of a $157,000 car for about a third of the money. Call it a 68% discount on vibes.
Things I noticed, in no particular order
The Fine Print
The odometer counts in kilometers. The rebuilt cluster is metric: km/h speedometer, 8,000-rpm tach. The photos show about 21,500 on the odometer, which works out to roughly 13,400 miles. The listing calls it true mileage unknown anyway, so the real number is "since 2019."
It has cupholders. Two of them, plus a USB port, mounted on the tunnel of a 1965 Alfa Romeo. Purists are fainting. I'm thrilled. Coffee and twin Webers are a complete breakfast.
Known flaw: corrosion under the rocker panels. Rust on a 1960s Italian car is less a flaw and more a birth certificate. Still, get it on a lift. The seller added underside photos to the listing after bidders asked, which I appreciate.
The title is from Montana. The car lives in California, the title is Montana and it's titled to the seller's LLC. I'm a CPA in Montana. I've seen this movie. Your home state may have its own opinion about how this movie ends, so ask before you bid.
The door sills say "romeo." Readers of my comics already know there's an Aaron Romeo. I'm choosing to take this as a sign.
Receipts
The Listing, Before It Disappears
Auction pages have a way of vanishing, so here's the listing as it looked with six days to go.
The hammer drops
How It Ended
Bidding climbed from $30,000 to $52,274 across 23 bids, and the reserve still said no. My $50,000 call landed $2,274 under the high bid, about 4%, and inside my $46,000 to $56,000 range. The seller keeps the Giulia. I keep the dream.
Final thoughts
Would I Buy It?
Yes. Immediately. It's my dream car, it's the right color, and it has the look of a GTA without the GTA price or the GTA anxiety. I already wrote a love letter to a red Alfa Romeo Spider I found on Main Street. This is the sequel nobody asked for.
The problem is the money already has a job. I'm supposed to be saving for a 40 Series Land Cruiser, and you can Fund the 40 if you'd like to help with that. So if you buy this Giulia, fine. I'm not mad. Just let me photograph it.
See the Listing
The full Cars & Bids listing has 110 photos, including the underside. If you end up owning this car, call me. You bring the Alfa, I'll bring the camera, and we'll find a Montana road that deserves it.
All car photos are from the seller's Cars & Bids listing.
Drive Fast · Take Chances · Never Lift.
