8C SPIDER BODYSHELL AND PARTS - FROM £9,750

Incredible opportunity to build a replica 8C with a genuine bodyshell. Or you could build a special - your own Disco Volante style car perhaps?!

These two shells came from the bodyshop in Italy that painted and assembled them before they were sent to the Maserati plant to have the mechanicals fitted on the Granturismo production line. Despite easily selling all 500 Coupes, Alfa didn’t manage to sell all the Spiders as they cost nearly 50% more than the coupe. These are two of the bodyshells that never got built into a completed car. The white one - paintwork is generally good but there are some storage / transport marks - they had it in storage for 8 years and then it was transported to the UK in a lorry so a few small scuffs along the way. It is Bianco Madraperla - mother of pearl white - a stunning colour and the colour on all the Spider sales brochures etc. The other, cheaper one is in primer with a pair of used front wings and a used bonnet.

You can now buy a good, undamaged Maserati Granturismo 4.7 MC Shift for less than £20k and this will give you all the major mechanical components that were used in the 8C and a V5 - the entire subframes unbolt from the Maserati front and rear and bolt straight on (which is why they were assembled on the Maserati production line!). Engine, gearbox and suspension all just bolts straight up, although it’s almost certain Alfa used different springs & shocks. In the photo of the front wheel arch you can see a Granturismo front subframe offered up to check the fit. The engine, gearbox and all major suspension components from a 4.7 Granturismo MC Shift are IDENTICAL to the ones used in an Alfa 8C!

Some time after buying these shells I also bought from Touring Superleggera many parts which they removed from 8C Spiders when they created the 8C based Disco Volante cars.

The white bodyshell comes with front & rear bumpers, bootlid, headlights, rear lights and a hoodframe (with motor and mohair soft top) included in the price. The bumpers also have all the grilles etc already fitted in them - this one is available for £20,000. The other shell in primer comes also with front and rear bumpers and a bootlid (but hoodframe and lights will be extra) and is £9,750.

I have available by separate negotiation - all lights, a windscreen, a carbon dashboard and a few other items. Please email me for more info / photos.

An incredible project for someone and not an opportunity that will ever come again.

Call Richard Norris on (+44) 07956 538351 or email richard@classicalfa.com