"Right from Italy...."
Does he mean this is a non-USA version? Did they sell in the US in '73 with right-hand shift?
The Indiana dealer sticky confuses me.
None of it matters, I guess. Anytime someone says "barn find", I always imagine someone taking a break along a country road for a smoke or a _iss, and seeing a half-collapsed barn in the distance, and taking a walk.....and finding a gem like this under a pile of old straw.
Truth is always less romantic, but I sure wish I'd find something like this in a barn.
There's a house built in 1745 less than a mile from me that our town bought from the family that had owned it since new. 1 barn still standing on the property, and I poked my head in there as far as I could (old coot that lived there was a hoarder) and found....wait for it......a '80s era Honda Four half disassembled. That's MY "barn find".