Wild guess, is the guy's name Lee?
Lol. New ebay account, same old add language. He buys and sells salvage vehicles. Many. He's the guy that bought the Lamborghini that the Lotto winner won & wrecked a few hours later.(I have no idea on this Jalpas background). I talked to him a year(?) ago about another Jalpa that he had. A blue one totaled. Nice guy on the phone.
Now I remember him. He is the one that wanted 20K+ for the completely totaled Jalpa... no way to rebuilt it. I offered to buy the engine and trans for about half his price and he told me to get lost. He usually has no answers to questions even very simple things. There are a bunch of questions for this car including why the front bonnet does not fit and ALL the other ones all ready raised.
I confirmed, it was sold in January 2011 with a wreck engine to be rebuilt. I presume the engine repaired was included in that 50.000 deal...
It's Murcielago something. There could be others, of course. Rovingtravler, I was thinking about building a track car at the time, which would allow the car to be put back to a somewhat usable state. Bodywork wouldn't be done back to Lambo standards, and of course the car will never be back as it was originally. Parts or a track car. Another observation on the white car is the mirrors. Original $$$ ones (same as a Countach) are gone. I would be curious on the asking price if anyone knows.
Is anyone able to tell me whether the Jalpa had a Bertone body number like the Urraco and Silhouette? On these models this took the form of a *1060*xxx* number at the base of the engine cover strut. The xxx number was also stamped on the underside of the tab on the headlight housing. If this is also on the Jalpa it should be visible with a mirror once the headlight glass/reflector has been removed from the housing. Is anyone able to help with this important piece of information please? Thanks. Image Unavailable, Please Login
You are right, there's also a number on the Jalpa, this one is stamped on the rear left damper turret, you can find it stamped on every body parts and also on the interior parts (daschboard, door panel... and also on the carpet). This number is near the chassis number, I think at the beggining it was the same ans after they are not the same but it follow the chassis number without a big différence, it will be interresting to add this on the Raymonds registry. Eric
Does anyone know the current whereabouts and/or color combination for ZA9J00000DLA12079 , this car was on Belgian registration until 2000 and Im curious to know its current location.
Just drove a Jalpa for the first time, it was a fun car for sure! Chris [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCma2SisoQ4[/ame]
For a while, Jacques at Maserati Source made and was selling reproductions of the original exhaust system in stainless steel. Very high quality and well built units, and they were selling on ebay. I bought one, gutted the cans, and ceramic coated the entire system headers back. Your video captures the Jalpa sound perfectly, which at its best is a combination of gnashing mechanical parts, bellowing exhaust and 42 DCNF's sucking air. On the later Jalpa's, there is a removable panel to access the front bank of plugs from the cockpit, sometimes I drive around with that panel out just to hear the sound of the engine 12" from your head.
P300V8> sorry for the delay...Here's some inforlmation about the body number if you want to made a table: 12073 body number 061 12343 body number 321 12372 body number 365 Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Thanks for the info. So, as stated earlier body numbers do not match the vin - no surprise there then! I have looked and looked again but I can't see any number on that strut tower - but I do believe you!
There's another curious think about number on early car, are you saw that Vin number was stamped on a welded plate on early car and after directly on the body? as I'm very curious I looked behind this welding plate on 12073 ans I discovered an other number stamped on the body but without the year letter, I think that they made some mistake on early car or destroyed some body...
This is something I've been pondering for a while (since post #7! ) glad to see it was picked up - perhaps if we find enough samples we can figure out at what point(s) they con- (di) verge - or even if the numbers ever were the same.. The number on the carpet was usually marked / written on the bottom of one front carpet removable mat section, and sometimes on the carpet at the bottom of the parcel area under the rear half. The back area should likely have been glued down with the yellow glue, so try looking under the fronts first.. Other number issues have apparently occurred - I've seen one where they left out one of the '0' in the middle of the US serial number - on just one of the stamped ID's.. While not the worst that could happen, the state in their grand registration / inspection systems *love* this..
I am no expert on the Jalpa. However, in the case of the Urraco and Silhouette one should not expect the body number ie *1060*xxx* to "match" the vin. This is complicated somewhat in that only even numbered vins (with a few exceptions) were used. For the Jalpa both body numbers and vins were consecutive which makes comparison easier, but again one should not expect vins to match body numbers. As I understand it, and taking ELA12185 as an example, ELA is the model year, 12 is the model type ie Jalpa P118b and 185 is the consecutive vin number - which might/might not match the body number. Regarding post #7 I would expect the body number (rather than the vin) to be reflected in the number stamped/marked on the various components and I can offer no explanation for non-matching numbers other than perhaps a change in specification so that parts originally intended for another body ended up on this one. Ultimately the body number is the number that determines how many cars were produced ie no body no car! Thus I regard the body number to be the more important number as the bodies were made/numbered consecutively for all models, yet the vin seems to be the focus of attention for the majority.
