First things first.

This Alfa Romeo Giulia Spider Veloce is in as near as dammit concours condition and has to be the best example we’ve ever seen – and by some margin.

It’s so achingly beautiful you’ll find it hard to decide between looking at it or licking it.

The prior vendor, for whom this was their third Giulia Veloce, had not only spent absolutely eye-watering amounts of money on a 1,250-hour restoration, following which the car has covered a mere ~360 miles, he had also done some highly commendable sleuthing work in hunting down the car’s history and provenance.

And what a fabulous story he uncovered.

The following is mostly paraphrased from his own eloquent words and covers both its history much of the restoration work you can see on the car today.

Built on 27th July 1964, chassis number 390252 was dispatched to American distributor Max Hoffman on 7th August.

Within a year it had been resold by Licari’s Foreign Cars in New Jersey, and its U.S.

title was registered in Fl...