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The position of the rear bumper is also different. Lower than on productionmodels, also lower than on Spanish car.
Take a look at the rearside window. The mechanism is on a different position than on the white #001 car. Take a look at the door, between front side window and rearsidewindow, 3 pieces of chrome on white car, 2 on this car.
Rear panel just above rearwheel is different, straight on white car, with a "curve" on silver car. Silver car doesn't have vents near rear
window, white one does 3x (Spanish car 1 on each side).
This is a completely different car than all production Lele's.
Now I've found a foto (black and white) made in sept. / oct or earlier in 1969 (100% certain about that) of a Lele in a metallic color (99%
it is silver) with dark interior. This car has a different solution for the "eyelids". They don't go up but go behind de headlights into the bodywork and leave the lamps exposed. It doesn't look very good so that's most likely the reason why they changed this on production cars. I think the foto is made in the gardens of the Rivolta villa in Bresso. I'm also almost certain this car was built after the #001 car because it is presented as the production Lele and used in an Italian magazine for presentation of the production Lele.
The first white Lele and the second silver Lele both had a diferent style of gas cap arrangement. It looks like a round stainless trim piece. I'm at my office and don't have the bible with me (Goodfellow book) but the pictures clearly show this. The car in the Becker dealership, with Piero there, shows this same piece. Also the bumpers of the first two cars are three pieces, like the grifo. All the later cars had one piece bumpers. The white car had six vents at the rear
window, while the production cars only have two. It will be interesting to see if this third car has any of the unique features mentioned above. |