I honestly hadnt ever seen a lord blue non evo car (since ive been digging, ive found a TOTAL of one other 8v car, two other 16v, all of them Japanese spec with the exception of one 16v car. (see picture attached)

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 If it hadn't been for some obscure french website (which now i cant find -_- ) saying that one of the early pre-pro cars was painted in Lord Blue, I would have thought it was a repaint. Hell, most of the lancia specialist did as well until they saw all the tags were in-place, the car was never dissembled and the paint meter came back even. From everything I understand about the car, it is a regular 8v NON kat, as it was a JDM market car. It was sold new from a dealer in japan, had two owners, and now I am the third.

 

I bought the car from auction using a agent (so a little of both? lol) I made good friends with an importer here stateside and he had the contacts in japan to ship it over to Port New York and then ultimately i picked it up from there. Oddly enough after never seeing another blue non evo delta, about 2 months after I bought one, he bought one as well! So I went from the only blue 8v delta in the western hemisphere to one of two within a ~100km distance LOL Ive included pictures of his car as well. Its nearly identical except its an 89 8v JDM spec car and has about 10-15000 more miles than me. (if i remember correctly). Oddly enough we havent had a chance to meet up and take pictures yet, and with the winter approaching, I dont think its going to happen this year :(

 

The auction though was interesting, I got the detailed pictures I was looking for at 4:30am local time, and had a half hour to wake up enough to take a look at the pictures and figure out a bidding price for it. It was interesting to say the least....so was that day at work. No one could figure out why I was dragging my arse

 

There are less than 50 integrales in total stateside so its easy to keep tabs on them, but at least 5-10 of them are Evos, however not exactly square on the legality side.

 

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