Series 1 / Abarth rear lamps on eBay

[Thotos]

Someone here was asking for a pair of these recently. A new pair is for sale currently on eBay



http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FIAT-131-MkI-ABARTH-PAIR-OF-NEW-TAIL-LAMPS_W0QQitemZ170187432216QQihZ007QQcategoryZ31352QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[kev131]

Yes I saw them - Started at a ?1 I think but up to ?30 when I last looked. The seller (I think it's the wife of Malcolm Fancy - Jenny) seems to have a treasure trove of 131 parts.

[Thotos]

Yes and unfortunately it seems it's two of our members that are fighting it out for these. One from Turkey and one from the UK. Yagmur, don't you have lots of these in Turkey?

[simon131]

You guys do have very sharp eyes don't you?

Yeah, it's Mrs Fancy, Jenny, selling them for Fancy Engineering (nejgam48), as she has always done.

If they are still readily available from Turkey via Yagmur then perhaps he'd be good enough to tell us how much he can supply them for as I don't want to bid too much

But, if they are readily available in Turkey why am I bidding against a Turk for these I already have at least one of one side and three of the other (genuine Fiat, that I purchased some years ago from Pete Sawyer of the Fiat Motor Club GB) - but you can never have too many Series 1 items can you? Well....I can't

The reason Fancy Eng has so many New Old Stock FIAT parts is that since the late 1980s, Malcolm has been buying up the stock of dealers who either went out of business or changed franchise, so over the years he has amassed thousands of items . My understanding was that he is now thinking of retiring (closing the Dorset based business)and moving to Cyprus (I think ) so needs to sell off all of his stock for the best price possible - hence it all appearing on ebay

[Yagmur]

Good morning Sirs,
I am sorry,I have almost every parts of 131s except series 1--2 rear lamps and back panels.
Every 131 owner changed them to series 3 type.

[simon131]

Oh dear! Looks like I'm going to have to keep bidding then. At least, until my budget is blown

[simon131]

Sold - and on their way to Turkey

I set my budget and the other bidder blew it

Having dug a pair of boxed NOS ones out of the boot of my orange Special at the weekend I decided not to bid too far. It would have made them spare-spare parts after all