I too remember the car advertised on eBay by, presumably, the previous owner. It wasn't a good advert with very few pictures and no photos of the interior or engine bay, just the car in what seemed like someone's back yard. The eBay advert run for a while and I think the price started at around £2500 and gradually reduced to £1500 but I could be wrong. The current 'Walkers' owner started advertising the car at £5995! It was also on the official Walkers website at that price and can still be seen advertised at that price here
http://www.caricle.co.uk/detail/Used-1982-Lancia-Trevi/TJosPsJPSTPPxJsSsZs.html and also here
http://www.vehicleon.net/for-sale/lancia-trevi. Over the last couple of years the price was being reduced to £4995, then £3995 and now £2995. I think the owner is keen to sell it now so the price may be negotiable.
This is a Series 1 Trevi (I don't think Series 2 Trevis were sold in the UK) which is effectively a Series 3 Beta Berlina with a boot. So the door handles are definitely wrong as they are Beta Berlina series 2 handles. Someone once told me that doors or door skins for Series 3 Beta Berlinas were never available in the UK (only 50 Series 3 Berlinas were sold in the UK; don't know how many Trevis but I suspect not many more) so at the very least the Trevi for sale had the door skins replaced. That plus the fact that the sills are body coloured makes me sure that the car has been repainted even though the seller claims it hasn't. Not that I think repainting is a bad thing and in fact the 'wrong' door handles wouldn't bother me at all. Most people don't know what a Trevi is let alone know what door handles it should have! The car does have the correct and very rare as well as very nice 'slotted' alloy wheels so that more than makes up for the wrong door handles in my mind
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I think you should be able to see many Trevi photos (almost all of them of mine) on the Facebook album I created at
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.574522676000217.1073741828.574491006003384&type=3. Incidentally, my Trevi has the 'wrong' boot aluminium strip as it has "LANCIA β" on the left and "TREVI 2000" on the right. For the UK market the Trevi was sold as a model in its own right and "Beta" was never mentioned because of the rust scandal. So UK Trevis should have "LANCIA TREVI" on the left and "2000" on the right like so:
So with only about 4 Trevis in the UK with possibly just mine in regular use, if someone wants a RHD Trevi, then the one currently for sale is probably the only choice. Although I did see advertised an Italian registered RHD Trevi for sale in Italy about 3 years ago.
Incidentally, Trevi seats are supremely comfortable but they offer no lateral support at all. That's not a problem in my sedate auto Trevi and I simply waft along in my Trevi and rarely push it too hard round corners. I love my Trevi and all this talk of Trevis made me get the Trevi out of the garage and I'll use it to go to work tomorrow
