I was an auto broker in 1988 when a customer asked for a Bertone X1/9, so I called the local dealer, who was also the distributor for Bertone. They found out their manager was taking gifts like a Rolex for taking a bunch of X1/9s and found out the had 660 brand new 1986s at the port. They got Bertone to take back all but about 64 of them, so I would buy one, display it, and sell off of it. They had some minor cosmetic issues, but I was buying them for $5-6K with an invoice of $10K. It was a fun time. I remember the tach was on the left and the needle ran clockwise. The speedo was on the right and ran counter-clockwise, so that was odd. They were cute little cars for the money at the time. They were built to some rollover standard that never took effect, so the body was pretty tough.
Years earlier I bought was supposed to be its big brother, the Fiat X1/20. Fiat gave the project to Lancia, at was known as the Scorpion. I bought it as some special thing from Fiat directly with low miles for dirt cheap. They must have had me sign about 50 pages of disclosures. Looked like this one:
