type79@ix.netcom.com wrote:
Some of the funniest auctions have been for the Flying-A pedal pads. Remember
the 2 auctions where they went for $100 a pair! Now they occassionally don't
even sell for $19.95. While bidders were killing each other with bids reaching
$100+, all one had to do was call Motorhead at their 800 number shown in the
auction to buy them at the counter price of $12.50!!
> One of those Flying A pedal pads auctions were mine. I had originally listed
>the pads at $30 ($5 less than what I paid for them from Mike Lazorowicz (SP?)
>for an ORIGINAL pair) The bidder on the east coast was someone that writes a
>column in the Austin Healey Club of America magazine. I met him a while later
>and he explained. He is a nut for NOS stuff and
> admits to regularly paying too much for this stuff. He just got in a bidding
>war at the last few minutes on this item and it clearly got out of hand. He
>also told me that he found an excellent reproduction pair in Australia a few
>weeks later for $6.00!
Mike MacLean
60 Sprite
56 BN2
02 FLSTS
00 F-150
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