Down On The Street

Spotted in Rancho Santa Fe during a little Saturday morning road ride was this Italian gem:

It's a 1960 Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Speciale in impeccable condition, still sporting Roma license plates:

While the front end and front wheel arches are lovely, my favorite part of this specimen is the fastback rear light and how it effortlessly blends in to the decklid:

Nicely recessed back panel too.

And found on the rear decklid were these badges:

 The simple and clean interior is a speciale place indeed:

Massive wraparound on this windshield.

From what I've read, a nicely restored example such as this are worth about $150k. And for as much as I love the lines of this coupe, I can think of a whole fleet of cars (and bikes) I'd start my collection with before this.

Down On The Street - Two-fer

Two interesting cars spotted on the streets of North San Diego County during the short road ride I did this morning.

Up first is this pleasant Pinzgauer:

This is probably my favorite military vehicle that I could someday see myself owning. Purposeful, European, forward-control, boxy, goofy-looking. Yep, it checks all the boxes.

A row of seats is bolted in the bed under the canvas top. Another good rig for patrolling the wilds of Carlsbad in.

Some details:

 

Interested in buying one? Click on over to Cold War Remarketing. Far cooler than a similarly-priced new Kia.

About an hour later, this little red coupe caught my eyes.

A 1974 Alfa Romeo.

The man-eating serpent logo makes for what is arguably one of the coolest automotive badges ever:

And classic Alfas always had interesting shift lever placement.

I'd happily carve out a corner of the garage for this.