"Mr Fiat"

Not a bad price for tail light lenses. But keep in mind that those lenses, while the same shape as stock all-red ones or the "Euro" red and amber lenses, take a unique mounting bucket, separate for left and right sides. You can screw the GR-4 lenses onto stock buckets but the internal mounting of the bulbs is not correct and you'll get incorrect function of parking, stop and turn signals. Someone once supplied some sort of conversion kit for this combo, but I haven't seen one in years and dunno how well they actually worked. These 40+ yr old assemblies are sufficiently rare that I know of one vendor that's had 3 sets for sale... of left side only- for years. He's been unable to source right side buckets, even used.

Jeff,

Excellent find and linking to this recent thread for aftermarket buckets, complete GP4 lights are obtainable again. Light Bucket Thread

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These 40+ yr old assemblies are sufficiently rare that I know of one vendor that's had 3 sets for sale... of left side only- for years. He's been unable to source right side buckets, even used.

Hmmm maybe a deal here, I have a surplus of right hand buckets!

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Excellent find and linking to this recent thread for aftermarket buckets, complete GP4 lights are obtainable again.

Julian, I'm hurt. Surely you know complete original Group 4 tail light assemblies have been available for about three years now; that is how long I have been selling my restored and occasional NOS sets.

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Not a bad price for tail light lenses.

I only use original lenses,not the reproduction lenses mentioned in that posting. A side-by-side comparison will readily show the difference in quality.

Larry

Ben Chu who purchased my Pantera also found this company as a source for Mangusta parts. He purchased new rubber, great products but pricy!

As you can see I already have the conversion,
Bought a set of lenses, could not pass up that price!

Thanks Jeff!

Mark

extra info David sent on pantera parts.

Hi Mark,


Here is the pic for the pantera. They are $80 each. We can also get various rubber pieces for the following models


Vallelunga (1963-77)

Mangusta (1966-70)

Pantera (1970-89)

Douville (1971-88)

Longchamp (1973-88)

Guarà


Prices listed here


http://mrfiat.com/index.php?car=Rubber%20Parts&type=Detomaso


Also if you provide samples we can have many of the rubbers reproduced for you.


Regards,
David Besharat
Italian Auto Parts, Inc.
Phone: 678-637-5103
Fax: 914-829-9018
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