Eric M. Jones
Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Posts: 565
Location: Massachusetts
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 Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2012 3:34 pm Post subject: Westinghouse #329 Mazda Aircraft "Headlights". |
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The rest of the story.
Do Not Archive.
I posted this earlier on this list and some few people might wonder how it all turned out.
Background: I found a big box (19 pcs--9pc of the 12V and 10pc of the 24V) of NOS Westinghouse Mazda #239 landing "Headlights" at a flea market and grabbed them to put on Ebay. A long, long, time passed and I began to wonder who on God's Green Earth might need these uber-hyper-rare late 1920's landing lamps? There certainly weren't ANY available as far as the internet (and even rare lamp dealers) could tell me. NONE. Zip. Zero. Nada. I knew only that they fit the Rearwin Cloudster, but probably virtually all of the landing headlights must have been converted, because there weren't any lamps to put in them...except the ones I had. And the Rearwin Cloudsters hardly darkened the skies anymore. I grew less hopeful. I suspected I had the only Mazda #239's on the planet.
So they sat there month after month. But one day I checked my email and someone in Oregon had bought them all at the buy-it-now-price! He flys a restored WACO UKC with the original factory landing lights. He was overjoyed to find these. Sold, shipped, done.
But a couple days later I got an urgent email from a guy in Gloucestershire, UK who apparently panicked when he saw them gone from Ebay. I asked the buyer and he kindly agreed to email the UK guy and maybe make a deal.
Now everybody is happy.
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