Think i paid too much for a Fly Eye
 

$329.00 to be exact. It was for a brand new, NOS unit still in the bag. Ive seen bad ones beat up and going for $175.00, and I really dont know what possessed me to get this, but i spent very close to $36,000 on my car over a six year period, and I figgured what the heck. It is a key Motion looking part that my car didnt have. Well, time to put in some OT.

Anyway, I saw another post here for one let me tell ya, grab it for what ya can.

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If I miss the one on ebay, I also will have to pony up to the 300 dollar fly eye trough. I am in the same boat you are. Too much money spent now to miss out on the only part I have left to buy.

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Something is worth what YOU are willing to pay for it... Every time something sells for more than someone else would pay, people pile on to say it was too much, but the fact is, if you wanted it, paid the price, and got it, that's all that really matters. There's no comparing used stuff to NOS either IMO. I remember the first time an NOS rosewood steering wheel topped 1000.00 and everyone went nuts. Now if you can find a good used one for that its a good price. A recent thread about Motion emblems also touched on the premium paid for NOS stuff over used stuff, and there are 1000 other examples people could provide. Heck, as we speak there's a new thread commenting on what someone else paid for a nova fan. I have a whole room full of stuff I "paid too much for"...and I bet alot of others here do too. Besides... if being cool was cheap, everybody'd be cool...right? https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/grin.gif

Oh, and btw... you paid way too much. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/wink.gif https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/grin.gif

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Nice Joe, and you didn't wish the fellow a happy birthday! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/grin.gif

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Got any photos of your car with this fly eye.........

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does it have a flat snap ring or round wire snap ring?

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Something is worth what YOU are willing to pay for it... Every time something sells for more than someone else would pay, people pile on to say it was too much, but the fact is, if you wanted it, paid the price, and got it, that's all that really matters. There's no comparing used stuff to NOS either IMO. I remember the first time an NOS rosewood steering wheel topped 1000.00 and everyone went nuts. Now if you can find a good used one for that its a good price. A recent thread about Motion emblems also touched on the premium paid for NOS stuff over used stuff, and there are 1000 other examples people could provide. Heck, as we speak there's a new thread commenting on what someone else paid for a nova fan. I have a whole room full of stuff I "paid too much for"...and I bet alot of others here do too. Besides... if being cool was cheap, everybody'd be cool...right? https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/grin.gif

Oh, and btw... you paid way too much. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/wink.gif https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/grin.gif

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VERY WELL SAID JOE, I WOULD HAVE IF YOU HAD NOT!! COULDN'T AGREE WITH YOU MORE!! I TOO HAVE BEEN IN THE SAME BOAT BUT WHATEVER IT WAS I BOUGHT MADE ME HAPPY AND THATS ALL THAT MATTERS!!

RICH https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/beers.gif

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Something is worth what YOU are willing to pay for it... Every time something sells for more than someone else would pay, people pile on to say it was too much, but the fact is, if you wanted it, paid the price, and got it, that's all that really matters. There's no comparing used stuff to NOS either IMO. I remember the first time an NOS rosewood steering wheel topped 1000.00 and everyone went nuts. Now if you can find a good used one for that its a good price. A recent thread about Motion emblems also touched on the premium paid for NOS stuff over used stuff, and there are 1000 other examples people could provide. Heck, as we speak there's a new thread commenting on what someone else paid for a nova fan. I have a whole room full of stuff I "paid too much for"...and I bet alot of others here do too. Besides... if being cool was cheap, everybody'd be cool...right? https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/grin.gif

Oh, and btw... you paid way too much. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/wink.gif https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/grin.gif

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VERY WELL SAID JOE, I WOULD HAVE IF YOU HAD NOT!! COULDN'T AGREE WITH YOU MORE!! I TOO HAVE BEEN IN THE SAME BOAT BUT WHATEVER IT WAS I BOUGHT MADE ME HAPPY AND THATS ALL THAT MATTERS!!

RICH https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/beers.gif

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Both of you are nuts.... https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/grin.gif https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/grin.gif https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/grin.gif



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Re: Think i paid too much for a Fly Eye
 

There was another thread that mentioned this same fly eye part. One of our regulars, budnate, is supposed to have a big stash of them. Try contacting him.
https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/show...e/0#Post316346

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He's nuts too. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/grin.gif

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Joe, We're ALL nuts sometimes when we find something we need and it's just the "right" thing for the car. Two nights ago I bid (ebay) more than I thought parts were worth (on a normal day) for some things I really need for my blue car. Wouldn't you know it.....someone bid more! I thought my bid was over the top, but I still lost the items. In hindsight, I should have bid a LOT more so my search would be over; one less thing(s) I need to make it right. But I was trying to be realistic. I know now that the term "realistic" has no meaning on ebay.

Ebay is a sellers market.

Verne https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/frown.gif https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/blush.gif

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Something is worth what YOU are willing to pay for it... Every time something sells for more than someone else would pay, people pile on to say it was too much, but the fact is, if you wanted it, paid the price, and got it, that's all that really matters.

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That is my eBay point of view exactly. If you want it, need it, have the cash, don't mind spending the cash to get the item and are happy with the item when you receive it then don't look back.

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Pics of my car are in my "Introduction" post, for those that asked.

Oh and I forgot, when I was tallying up my receipts I didnt include the paint job which was $6500.00. I never minded paying what I had to for the parts because I always shopped around, paid cash as I went along and did all the grunt work myself, everything except the engine and paint, so I feel like I must haved saved enough to get an item like this to make it closer to right. First reaction was the guilts, which prompted the post, heck I still have 2 kids in college. Thats another reason why my car took so long to build. 5 educations, a wedding, (so far) in addition to everything else...

E bay is like anything else- you just have to watch that you dont get taken, like for instance those interior screw sets which at first may seem like a decent deal, but a look in Year One or NPD (ok, well maybe not Year One) and more than likely you can get it cheaper. Just have to compare and not let impluse let you bid things up. And thats another thing I see greenhorns doing on E bay, and thats to bid at all- if you want an item, just wait till the last second and bid what your willing to pay- and thats it- like I did with the air cleaner- and most other things I buy on E bay- if you lose you lose - and you wont if you put a bid in that you know you will get it- most times, anyway..

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Found the intro with your car----Car looks great--The cragars & chrome sidepipes are Killer...Nice home for that Fly eye.................

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Something is worth what YOU are willing to pay for it... Every time something sells for more than someone else would pay, people pile on to say it was too much, but the fact is, if you wanted it, paid the price, and got it, that's all that really matters.

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That is my eBay point of view exactly. If you want it, need it, have the cash, don't mind spending the cash to get the item and are happy with the item when you receive it then don't look back.

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<font color="blue">That's how B-J got so big.
Overzealous people trading cars back &amp; forth between each other
until the BIG $$$ comes out &amp; buys it for the 'museum' never to be seen again.

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Re: Think i paid too much for a Fly Eye
 

i dont think thats the right one. should be a snap ring no? seems high on the price too!

Re: Think i paid too much for a Fly Eye
 

The saying goes "You didn't pay too much, you bought it too soon".

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some clamped from behind like the ebay link, some had a flat snap ring to hold in the mesh and some have a special zig/zag wire thats holds in the mesh, in all the debate over these I have never seen a proven time line for the changes, my best guess is there was two suppliers of these to the market the clamp style they have there own look to them and I think they dont have a breather tube, "Vern is yours Tube delete"? and the style with the snap-ring or wire holders they appear to be the same unit just a change in holding down the mesh and they have a breather tube.

who knows??? bottom line there hard to find these days as most went in the trash after a backfire and it puked molten goo down a guys carb.
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Bud, I'm sure the one I had was a Stelling &amp; Hellings model. It had no tube on the base and the base was not chrome It was a dull spun finish. The domed screen was also not chrome but just a shinny piece of plated steel (it never rusted). Only the band was chrome. Maybe the screw and nut were also chrome, I forget. I sold mine to a dealer at Carlisle many years ago for $45. That was probably about twice what I paid for it.....

Verne

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The early ones didn't have a breather tube to re-digest engine fumes...The breather tube holes started to appear some with tubes or slug knock outs when the air pollution laws started to be enforced at inspection stations...so the manufacturers complied with the law......

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I just looked through a box of 68,69,70 Cars Mag and every fly-eye I found on a new MP car has the flat snap ring.
Not sure, but I think the wire ring came after 1970.
The way to go is with one that is documented by a magazine picture of the year you need.

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The early flat snap rings that held down the screens on the fly eyes were a pain to reach in a get off with the 2 holes at the end of the ring as was on mine. So JoeC, that would fit the timeline...Later on I stuck a easier to remove top wire ring with the pry openings on the top when they became available and just kept it for ease of servicing..........probably like you said after '70..

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The fly eye Verne is showing is shown in one of the first '69 Motion large catalogs sent to members ...and most likely even before that....and so and so on...

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I know I bought mine from Joel in '69. But I'm no expert on the cars and I'm not trying to indicate which style he installed on any car or when.
Come to think of it, I saved all my receipts for the car back then. You'd think I should have a few in the box since I bought a bunch of stuff from him. Now, where's that box???

Verne https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/hmmm.gif

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Your fly is open...........

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Joe, I didn't know you were looking in that direction. Is there something about you I don't know yet???

Well, I found "the box". I won't derail the thread and go into detail, but there were some from Motion, many from Cal Speed in New brunswick and many from Roger's Speed Shop in Daytona (address 409 Volusia Ave.!!!) The very bottom of the box had 2 receipts from Reedmans for the purchase of the car in '69. Man, I haven't looked at those since 1969! Hundreds of receipts in there! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/drool.gif What memories. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/drool.gif
OK, one more tidbit.....I found a receipt from a Chevy dealer in Georgia (one of my trips to or from Daytona) for replacement of a broken valve spring. Total cost: $7.69, part and labor! I completely forgot about that one. What to you think that would cost today, even if they had the part in stock????

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OK, one more tidbit.....I found a receipt from a Chevy dealer in Georgia (one of my trips to or from Daytona) for replacement of a broken valve spring. Total cost: $7.69, part and labor! I completely forgot about that one. What to you think that would cost today, even if they had the part in stock????

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$7.69 wouldn't even pay for the hand towels today !!

Re: Think i paid too much for a Fly Eye
 

Someone on another forum ask "Whats a flyeye"? I posted this pix of mine- and promptly got my chops busted for using an air cleaner device that was unsafe - upchuck through the carb - and bang - the whole car burns. I'm still using it. What do you think?

Re: Think i paid too much for a Fly Eye
 

It was no problem as long as you kept your car "well tuned" and cleaned the sponge air filter now and again...Mine has been on the car since day 1..Also there was a low profile and high profile(sat a little higher off the carb) type--I had the high profile type.
O.K --Verne... https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/grin.gif

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I think mine is a low profile but I've not seen both together. Don't know how to post a pic here yet, but if I could, I would. Thanks for the comments.