Offers the car for sale at US$ 55.000 with the following description:
https://www.autosportdesigns.com/vehicles/560/1970-alfa-romeo-junior-zagato-1300

1970 ALFA ROMEO JUNIOR ZAGATO 1300
Zagato Blu with Tan leather interior and Black carpets, Restored, 1750cc Engine fitted (Original 1300cc comes with car) liter 4-cylinder, 5-speed manual, Extensive history.

The Zagato Coupe was manufactured on the Giulia platform-chassis that was shortened by 10cm. It featured a Zagato body, which, in addition to offering a beautiful shape, also made the car lighter. It is considered by Ercole Spada, Zagato’s chief designer to be one of his best designs. These Zagato Coupes are rarely seen in this superb condition, they are exceptionally fun to drive, strong and agile.

This particular Zagato’s history can be found on the following Zagato web link…

http://www.zagato-cars.com/contents/en-us/d130_Alfa_Romeo_Junior_Zagato_1300_1800488.html

It was acquired from The Netherlands by Mr. V. Cerami a New York resident in 2012. At the time original engine was not working and was replaced with a 1750cc motor, the original matching numbers 1300cc motor is included with the car.

Mr. Cerami has the Alfa completely repainted and trimmed, sorted the Zag and used it for a short time before selling it to its last custodian, a well-known Arizona collector/collection. In this collection, it has been serviced when and where needed to be ready for use at a moment’s notice and remains in superb condition throughout.

This is truly an exceptional opportunity to acquire what must be among the finest Junior Zagatos available.

Simultaneously, the car was offered for sale on Ebay

Alfa Romeo Junior Zagato 1300 1800488

About to be released from its lock-up in Geneva, 1996

Chassis# 488 out of a total of 1,108 produced

Born on November 2, 1970, Milano, Italy, baptized on November 27, 1970 in Messina, Sicily, Italy

According to the factory records, 1800448 was completed on November 2, 1970 at the Terrazano di Rho factory of Zagato, in the Milano Area. On November 27, 1970 it was delivered to Ms. Giuseppa R. (privacy protection) in Messina, Sicily, Italy. The car was delivered in "Zagato Blu" livery (Resonal 328) with tan colored elasticpel seats, black carpets and beige headliner. Real seventies! All is confirmed by the factory records.

Next thing known is that, probably in 1984, the car had ended up in a garage in Messina, called "Officina 2000". This is confirmed by the export document that came with the car; it shows this and the next owner. It is unknown if there are any owners in-between the first owner, Ms. R. and this garage. Taking the complete rust-free condition of the car into consideration, it could be a plausible explanation that the car has seen very little use and was probably used as a second or maybe even third car. The tachometer reads some 42,000 KM (ca. 26,000 Miles) is believed to be true but there is no hard evidence for that.

On February 23, 1985 the car was exported to Switzerland, again to a garage, Carrosserie Andreatta Rexa in Geneve. This is confirmed by the afore mentioned export document.

The car as it had just arrived in Amsterdam

The verbal story that came with the car says that at this "body shop", the car was stripped to be re-painted; again not uncommon for a, by that time, 15 year old car that spent those years in a hot, sunny, climate like Sicily. Rust was no issue but probably the quality of the paint had let go. The car was indeed repainted, using minimal amounts of filler, I checked with one of those super magnets! The car was put together again for ca. 65 - 70% when, again according to the story, the owner ran out of money to have the job completed. The parts that were not yet mounted at that stage were "shoved" in a cardboard box which was put in the trunk of the car. This leads me to believe that this body shop had bought and imported the car on this owner's behalf. Partially mounted, the car was put in a corner of the workshop where it spent some 10 years sitting idle. Over this 10 year period, it got glue leaked on it, slightly dented and the expensive and hard-to-get- grill completely disappeared (probably sold) and other miscellaneous other parts disappeared out of the cardboard box.

After this period, the car ended up in the hands of yet another classic car dealer, again in Switzerland. This time it was "Garage Sport" in Corseaux-Vevy. It is unknown when he got it exactly but he sold it to a German dealer, Stefan S. (privacy protection) on September 6, 1996 who in turn delivered it to me on March 8, 1997.

The interior looked a lot rougher than it actually was.

Due to the long time it stood idle in Geneve, the engine had seized and although it can now be turned over by hand, it will probably show a high oil-consumption once it is running since I expect the piston-rings to have suffered from the surface rust in the cylinders. When I bought the car from the German dealer, I had the choice of 2. This one and a red one which had only moderate bodywork but was fully licensed in Germany which basically means that it is supposed to be a safe car to drive. The red one had had a heart-transplant and was now sporting a 2 liter engine. The original 1300 engine was still lying around and we concluded the deal as follows: The blue 1300 with the 1300 engine from the red one separately and delivery to my than home in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Once the car the was in the parking-house belonging to the apartment building where I lived at that time, I started to take inventory of the parts that I would need. I was told that a complete grill would probably cost around the DM 750,00 (US$ 400.00) in good, used, condition. Boy, was this a rude awakening.... I started to roam the country for Zagato parts to complete the car, at the same time I started out on the mechanical side of the car, overhauling the suspension and brake department.

I quickly found out that trying to buy a Junior Zagato is a lot easier than buying parts for it. Being already heavily challenged financially by the purchase of the car, I had to make the decision that if I wanted to complete this car, I had better buy whatever parts I could find and see if I could swap some of my finds with people who were "sitting" on the parts that I needed. At the same time I was rapidly expanding my "hunting grounds" to entire Europe.

Whenever time allowed, I was working on the car and around June the car was back on its wheels, meaning that I managed to put the suspension back together again. At that time, we had also bought a new old house with a garage to accommodate all our classics. Buying this house was really a two-side sword since on one side it would allow me to work on my cars more easily but on the other side also required major re-decoration (on the edge of renovation) and consequently a lot of time would go into that. We also have to change the garage a little since in theory we could fit 5 cars into it but in practice there is a rather large pole standing in the way so now we can only fit one car! This will be solved one day.. I hope...

Than there was the advent of Internet at my home. Running a couple of quick searches on "Zagato" brings out a lot of information about that word but who the h*ck is that "Evil Priest Zagato"? It looks to be a comic strip character!

More sophisticated searches on "Junior Zagato" or even "Junior Z" only brings out only a couple of sites and a couple of mentionings of some kind of Hawaiian guy! This was at the beginning of 1998 and I thought it would be nice to have a home-page but how does that work? I set out on that quest with as result what you see here. I quickly found out that there basically was no site dedicated to this car so my little Zagato page developed into the "Amsterdam Zagato Exchange" which should become a center for JZ owners to meet, swap parts, exchange experiences, put up their cars on the owner pages etc.

Since I need my daily drive, a 1968 Alfa Romeo 1750 Berlina, but do not want to park it outside, that is the car that occupies the only spot in the garage that is accessible at the moment. As a consequence, the Zagato is still in Amsterdam (ca. 30 miles from here) so I am dying to have the garage finished so I can finalize work on the car. It still needs the engine to be swapped and general finishing.

Many years have past and we are now in 2011...

A total lack of time has prevented me from working on this JZ at all...

This is what it looked like in 2011:

Alfa Romeo Junior Zagato 1300 1800488

Alfa Romeo Junior Zagato 1300 1800488

Alfa Romeo Junior Zagato 1300 1800488

Alfa Romeo Junior Zagato 1300 1800488

Alfa Romeo Junior Zagato 1300 1800488

About to be shipped to the USA
Alfa Romeo Junior Zagato 1300 1800488

Alfa Romeo Junior Zagato 1300 1800488

About to be trucked to the port of Amsterdam
Alfa Romeo Junior Zagato 1300 1800488

Alfa Romeo Junior Zagato 1300 1800488

Arrival in the port of New York, USA
Alfa Romeo Junior Zagato 1300 1800488

Alfa Romeo Junior Zagato 1300 1800488

Arrival on Long island, NY, USA
Alfa Romeo Junior Zagato 1300 1800488

Alfa Romeo Junior Zagato 1300 1800488

Together with Vic Cerami, Long Island, NY, USA
Alfa Romeo Junior Zagato 1300 1800488

Alfa Romeo Junior Zagato 1300 1800488

As offered for sale by Autosport Designs INC, Long Island, NY, USA in March 2016