As I was looking thru German EBay I noticed following auction:
http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...&category=2384
I began to investigate...
The ad says that mr. Bill Lawrence has built the Tele for this Dr. Briatore as a test guitar for Bill's pickups in '81 and that the guitar is fabulous, with original Fender parts and everything...
Only problem is that you can't reach the Dr. Briatore thru e-mail and when you check his earlier trades you see that he has sold similar (the same?) Tele already before, and with good feedback. Only when you check that trade with the buyer you'll get to know that the deal was actually never finished because the buyer didn't actually reach the Dr. at all...
Could be that the Tele exists - could be even a good one. However, it's extremely hard to verify...
Does anybody know about this Dr.?
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