Used Car of the Day: 1986 Alfa Romeo Spider Graduate

by Tim Healey

Published: December 15th, 2023

used car of the day 1986 alfa romeo spider graduate

Today we have another Alfa. This 1986 Alfa Romeo Spider Graduate has about 50,000 miles on the odometer and a clean title.

With the exception of the mirrors and perhaps the Blaupunkt audio, it appears to be all original.

Of course, we all know you don't need a quadraphonic Blaupunkt, you need a curveball. But I digress.

The paint appears to be in good shape save for some spider cracking. The windows are roll-up -- since door windows typically do roll up and down, I assume the seller means manual crank -- and the car does NOT have A/C. But it is a softtop convertible, so natural A/C it is.

Other a wonky fuel-door cable, it seems like the car is mechanically sound.

You can click here to see this upstate New York-based car. The ask is $12,500.

[Images: Seller]

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Tim Healey

Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.

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Add Lightness on Dec 16, 2023

The coupe version (GTVs) got riven in winter and started to dissolve very quickly but the spiders were fair weather cars and hence, there are lots more of them. That and a racing lineage are the main reason GTVs are worth several times as much as Spiders.
I remember the GTV/2002/510 wars on the track in the 70s.

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Danddd on Dec 16, 2023

Seems like if you want a toss-able convertible sports car, a Miata would suffice without the headaches of this Alfa.
One like this maybe for less.

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