Lancia Delta integrale on eBay …… BEWARE

I know this car. Its legit recently imported to US from Poland and in Stamford Connecticut just like the Ebay ad says. A good reason not to use the real VIN# is because the car is not 25 years old meeting US importation regulations.

Integrale I codrive had 4 bolt hubs, then 5 bolt hubs, then different 4 bolt hubs again.

 

It's a real Lancia Delta, but she is no EVO, never mind a final edition!

 

Interesting. I havent seen this one advertised for sale here in Poland locally. We had one final edition that was sold by a friend of mine, imported from Japan, but it was a 94-95 car. If this is a 89 8V, it cant be a final edition... for obvious reasons.

 

This guy has had a couple of other Lancia's imported and sold from Stamford Ct, usually bearing the Martini racing colors. They look pretty sharp, but don't know much more about them. Has some vids on YouTube as well.

 

Evidently, this one came from Japan. From a friend who knows more about them from me:

"the original side marker lights have been lowered to meet the Japanese height standard. The HF badge is only there to cover the hole where they were originally mounted.

There are subtle differences inside the car as well. The Japanese market cars did NOT have the auto-check system in the dash above the radio, they just got a small cubby hole - which subsequently holds a garage door opener perfectly.

The cars that went to Japan also had a catalytic converter retrofitted to meet their emissions, whereas the cars sold to other markets that required CATs had them fitted at the factory and had a different passenger floorpan to accommodate it."

 

So this is a japanese 16v Finale editione Evo replica?

 

So, someone spent a lot of $ to update and improve a car (I've sank 10 times more $ into my Lancia than its worth) and risked importing it perhaps illegally to somewhere Lancias hadn't been imported to since ~1982 where the demand is high but finding one already here is rare and then charging a premium and comparing to an existing market is perspective? That is like me complaining to my USA coke dealer that the last kilo I bought in Bolivia was half as cheap. Different risk, different market.

 

It's a 16V dressed as an Evo, not that uncommon in Europe (especially the Evo spoiler is seen a lot on 8V's and 16V's). If it's technically sound, an asking price of 30K isn't a bad price in the US (where Evo's are not road legal yet, if I understood correct?).

+ actual Final Edtions are a bit more expensive, anywhere from 75K to 135K Euro. As a low mileage example:

Lancia Delta Edizione Finale | Fast Classics

 

Lancia Delta HF Integrale 8v kat Viistoperä 1990 - Vaihtoauto - Nettiauto

There is an unspoiled origiginal HF integrale in Finland for 10 grand.