HISTORY: We purchased our 1958 Alfa Romeo Guilietta Veloce Spider in April of 2009. It was just completing a 9 year restoration project. We have no idea why it took so long to complete the restoration, but after we bought it, it took another 16 months for us to get the car because of various problems with the restorer.

The car is 1495 F 05311

The original color was Celeste. The person who had the car restored had it painted Rosso Bordeaux. The interior is tan.

According to Alfa Romeo, our car was manufactured on February 12, 1958 and ws sold to Hoffman Motor Cars in New York on January 9, 1959.

The car is currently in Ohio. We have never seen the actual car - only photos. We will pick it up next month and take it to Pittsburgh for the PVGP "car week" and show it there.

At some point the car was taken to Europe by someone in the military and then was reimported to the U.S. I have those papers around, but right now I cannot lay my hands on them

Jack Piller bought it in 2000 and had it restored over a period of nearly 10 years by a Mr. Aaron Couper in Vermont. We purchased our 1958 Alfa Romeo Guilietta Veloce Spider in April of 2009. 

I bought the car from a guy in upstate NY, Jack Piller. The car was in Vermont. I bought it sight unseen except for photos and assurances. The car was supposedly a few weeks away from completion. I paid for the car and got written assurances that it would be completed as promised and the seller would pay for completing everything.

Then when they were testing it, the engine seized. The restorer thought it was bad bearings. After replacing the bearings and having the engine seize again, he concluded that the block was warped. He had the block re line bored and trued. Then when he reassembled the motor he found that the piston skirts were hitting the rod bolts and the valves were hitting the pistons. Another trip to the machine shop and reassembly - the 3rd or 4th time, and this time it worked.

Meantime since the interior had not been installed, I decided to change it from black to tan. I know that tan was not originally offered, but in Colorado we have so much sunshine that you cannot ever sit in a car with a black interior. Besides, the rosso bordeaux is not an original color, so it didn't matter. One thing led to another, and the restorer kept on taking in new business and putting my car to the back of the list,

It was just completing a 9 year restoration project. We have no idea why it took so long to complete the restoration, but after we bought it, it took another 16 months for us

to get the car because of various problems with the restorer. The original color was Celeste. The person who had the car restored had it painted Rosso Bordeaux.