Just got back from a major road trip shopping for Fiat parts. This time it was bits for the 130. Hired a van, got let down by Enterprise, then got bailed out by National at short notice. This meant I did not get away until about 9:30 on Saturday morning and it all felt a bit rushed. First stop was in Essex near Southend, then I got back as far as Birmingham where I decided to stop overnight as by this time I had already driven 520 miles which was enough for one day. This morning I set off at about 8:00 and headed to a scrapyard in Wigan (or so I thought). Eventually found it in Haydock after finding some very helpful chaps in a stone business who let me use their local phone book. On the way back the inside of the van looked like this:
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The spoils consisted of four good used doors with glass, four external door handles, a reversing light, a front and rear screen and a 130 Coupe interior in blue consisting of seats, carpets and some trims. I also picked up an instrument cluster and some badges.
The seats need a damn good clean (don't they always!) but are in very pleasing condition having come out of a car which had done only 50,000 miles. At least thats what the dash shows?
![Grin](http://131mirafiori.com/smf/Smileys/default/grin.gif)
Here is a picture of the front seats after a quick hoover, more to follow when they are clean....
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They were covered in glass shards as the front screen had been smashed, but at least the hoover got rid of that. The carpets I did not get photos of, but as the car had been sitting in a scrapyard for some time you can guess the state they are in. The hot pressure washer will be brought into action for those!
Before anybody comments I know the saloon and coupe seats are different, but I am planning to 'make the rears fit'. I much prefer the design and material of the coupe seats and the blue velour should look nice with the metallic blue paint.