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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