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Title: 131 racing seat towels Post by: CkRacing on January 06, 2009, 10:34:35 AM anyone have a pair of black front seat racing towels for sale?
Title: Re: 131 racing seat towels Post by: bolger on January 06, 2009, 01:20:30 PM We could consider ordering them in China ;)
Title: Re: 131 racing seat towels Post by: kev131 on January 06, 2009, 06:36:05 PM You must be going for complete originality!
Have we seen pictures of your car..? :) Title: Re: 131 racing seat towels Post by: italianxrays on January 06, 2009, 08:00:55 PM :)
I had a pair of these but sold on ebay some years ago, the guy seemed over the moon, lived in Cornwall, it may even have have been a Marcus Maylem ? who was building a grp4 131 racer possibly, I may be wrong, as it was a few years ago now. But they were dark blue not black with 4 eyelet holes at each corner (rusty) and I recall racing embossed into the length of each towel Were these an after market accessory then ? Cheers Ian Title: Re: 131 racing seat towels Post by: sid131 on January 06, 2009, 08:13:09 PM as far as i can remember they were delivery towels on the 131 racing/sport, i have a set in my mums attic they are a bit tatty if you want to deal pm your details & i will send you some pics.
Title: Re: 131 racing seat towels Post by: bellamacchina on January 07, 2009, 10:46:23 AM They were for sure delivery towels and they were in several colours. For one of my cars I have them in grey, but I know of black and white items also. I am also looking for the things(look at older subjects here ;) ???
Title: Re: 131 racing seat towels Post by: Tas131 on January 07, 2009, 11:25:08 AM i will send you some pics. Can you post some pics up Nick, I've never seen 131 "Seat towels". But we never got the sport/racing in OZ, so I haven't seen one of them either. Title: Re: 131 racing seat towels Post by: sid131 on January 07, 2009, 12:22:53 PM sorry but the ones in the attic seem to have hidden themselves somewhere they were there 20 yeras ago?? gulp,
can anyone post a pic for me please because i have been in contact with a local towel company about getting some reproduced Albert & Kevin i need your pics & dimensions of the towels please. Title: Re: 131 racing seat towels Post by: bolger on January 07, 2009, 05:07:46 PM I have them in dark blue, drivers one is worn, tough.
Title: Re: 131 racing seat towels Post by: sid131 on January 07, 2009, 05:19:25 PM yes they were in metal blue as supplied on some silver (620) coloured cars with the blue bumpers & trim, can you email me a couple of close up pics please of both sides, are they handed? also the measurements please.
Title: Re: 131 racing seat towels Post by: wayne67 on January 07, 2009, 05:59:24 PM Hi These are NOT for sale but may help you, Each Towel is 1400mm long x 280mm wide (55"x11" inches) the metal rings are in different places at the top to the bottom:- The top which I think is the top cos they are wide enough to fit the headrests are 20mm in and 20mm down from a corner, where the two points meet is the centre of the hole.
What I think is the bottom:- is 55mm in from the side and 30mm down from the end, again both lines meet at the centre of the hole. fiat racing runs up from the bottom on the left side of both towels. It starts FIAT RACING FIAT RACING FIAT _______RACING FIAT RACING FIAT There is a space presumably where the base meets the back of the seat hopefully these show up in the pic`s. Hope this may help Regards Wayne. :) SORRY THIS SITE WILL NOT LET ME ATTACH PICS, SAYS EACH PIC IS TOO BIG, i CANNOT REDUCE THEM SO IF ANYONE WANTS TO SEE THEM SEND ME AN E-MAIL ADDRESS I CAN SEND THEM TO. SORRY AGAIN WAYNE Title: Re: 131 racing seat towels Post by: mirafioriman on January 07, 2009, 06:29:19 PM If you want to post big pics on here the easiest way is to use a free photo hosting site like Photobucket.
Title: Re: 131 racing seat towels Post by: italianxrays on January 07, 2009, 09:12:44 PM :)
I just wanted to add, I picked mine up from North of Leeds way + the orange arch kit etc. held on for some years as I thought they looked nice hanging on my bedroom wall, they did find a good home though and to their correct use. I think they are now scarce items but could easily be reproduced (if enough interest amongst the 131 Racing fratenity) given modern technology. Sadly no pics, I will double check though. Title: Re: 131 racing seat towels Post by: bellamacchina on January 07, 2009, 09:43:05 PM Here is a picture with the text :D
Title: Re: 131 racing seat towels Post by: sid131 on January 07, 2009, 10:06:43 PM SORRY THIS SITE WILL NOT LET ME ATTACH PICS, SAYS EACH PIC IS TOO BIG, i CANNOT REDUCE THEM SO IF ANYONE WANTS TO SEE THEM SEND ME AN E-MAIL ADDRESS I CAN SEND THEM TO. SORRY AGAIN WAYNE
My email address is in my profile please send me pics i am working on getting these reproduced if possible, thanks. Title: Re: 131 racing seat towels Post by: parrish on January 08, 2009, 10:57:47 AM OK put me down for a pair ;D
Title: Re: 131 racing seat towels Post by: sid131 on January 08, 2009, 03:18:09 PM Had a meet today with the towel people & they can supply me with a plain black towel 500mm x 850mm, the process to emboss the fiat racing into the towels would cost way too much because the minimum amount is 5000 pieces, so what they can do is embroider fiat racing down one side of the towel, so to cover the front seats you would need 4 towels as the originals were 280 or 300mm x 1400 long, what i suggest either i get the width modified to 300mm at a extra cost or the indivudial can do that themselves & they can either be held on to the seats by velcro or other ways small stitch maby, so i will need to know if anyone is interested these wont be too expensive ballpark figure ?40 or less for 4 towels. the minimum amount of these they can do is 50, so thats 12 sets or 12 cars.
Title: Re: 131 racing seat towels Post by: sid131 on January 08, 2009, 03:31:44 PM i need pics of the towels please to go ahead with this. someone send me some pics of their towels please to 0878310581(at)vodafone.ie
Title: Re: 131 racing seat towels Post by: parrish on January 08, 2009, 03:46:21 PM What these? carpets?
http://cgi.ebay.it/TAPPETINI-IN-GOMMA-FIAT-131-ABARTH_W0QQitemZ190277448042QQcmdZViewItemQQptZRicambi_automobili?hash=item190277448042&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1385%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318 Title: Re: 131 racing seat towels Post by: sid131 on January 08, 2009, 05:22:27 PM ?????sorry i am lost there, i want pics of the delivery front seat towels to show the towel manufacturers what kind of embroidery to do.
Title: Re: 131 racing seat towels Post by: kev131 on January 10, 2009, 02:42:30 PM Pics as requested Nick.? ;)
(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l250/kev131/131RacingTowels001.jpg) (http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l250/kev131/131RacingTowels003.jpg) (http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l250/kev131/131RacingTowels004.jpg) (http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l250/kev131/131RacingTowels005.jpg) (http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l250/kev131/131RacingTowels002.jpg) Dimensions are 29cm by 138cm. Title: Re: 131 racing seat towels Post by: sid131 on January 10, 2009, 02:54:27 PM Thank you Kevin.
Title: Re: 131 racing seat towels Post by: brensport on January 10, 2009, 09:29:57 PM Hi Nick just asugestion how about doing the letering in a different colour say for the 4 different 131 sport colours what do u think :-\ :-\
Title: Re: 131 racing seat towels Post by: sid131 on January 10, 2009, 10:06:52 PM Hi Brendan thats a great idea but as you can see there is very little interest in this thread so dont think i will go ahead what would i do with 50 towels only have 1 131, just seems a waste of time sorry Nick.
Title: Re: 131 racing seat towels Post by: brensport on January 10, 2009, 10:53:30 PM Nick dont give up yet i am sure when they are finished there will be a lot of intrest >:(
Title: Re: 131 racing seat towels Post by: 124AC on January 14, 2009, 08:03:24 PM Guys
If you buy a large towel, trim it to the required size, remake the hem(Your good lady will do this, or point you in the direction of the sewing machine) you will have a towel that fits. Second, find the text or image that you want to add to the towel. If you get inline you can find companies that will digitise the logo ready for application to your towel ect. Now take the Yellow Pages and find one of the many companies that embroider logos on sweatshirts etc. They will be able to produce your logo in a band along the towel. The colours can be any thread colour you can dream of. They will do a pair or as many as you like. If anyone is interested I could suggest some sources. Title: Re: 131 racing seat towels Post by: mirafioriman on January 14, 2009, 08:12:58 PM That sounds like a realistic way of doing it. If a few people were interested someone could get a small number made up and sell them on on a to order basis, or people could get their own made up. Perhaps we need to start a 131mirafiori.com shop!
Title: Re: 131 racing seat towels Post by: 124AC on January 14, 2009, 08:22:24 PM If someone sends me the required logo I will ask what sort of cost for a towel.
Are the originals handed? What colour combination? Grey towel, Orange logo? Title: Re: 131 racing seat towels Post by: sid131 on January 14, 2009, 11:40:30 PM Lads what did you think i was doing? only just that, well ill see what you guys come up with, the shop is a great idea like on the celica-club, sweatshirts fleeces hoodies basebal lcaps with the logo & user name of you wish, i have a celica fleece was only 25 quid.
Title: Re: 131 racing seat towels Post by: theredx19 on January 16, 2009, 08:50:06 PM Nick I see you have been doing your homework on this and it is a great idea 100% to ya and I will see what I can find out through some contacts as I can get jumpers done for certain (not that I ever wear one ;D). If you want to start a poll on how many folk want these I can talk to my lad as they can do the caps aswell and it is good quality gear not the usual tripe...
Title: Re: 131 racing seat towels Post by: sid131 on February 11, 2009, 05:25:33 PM well got a sample today would anyone be interested in these?
Title: Re: 131 racing seat towels Post by: sid131 on February 11, 2009, 05:33:29 PM 2 more pics
Title: Re: 131 racing seat towels Post by: parrish on February 11, 2009, 06:05:57 PM ill take 4 ;D
At the right price. :D Steve Title: Re: 131 racing seat towels Post by: sid131 on February 11, 2009, 06:29:06 PM Steve i only got the 1 fiat racing embroidered as a sample to post on this site, ideally each towel would need 2 for the back & possibly 3 for the base the cost is approx 20 euro per fiat racing logo 10 euro for the towel so you would be looking at approx 85 euro per seat thats 2 towels & 5 fiat racing logos,
i am going with 2 fiat logos & will only be getting the seat backs done for my car i will be getting front & the back seats done which are smaller towels maby, also i havnt taken into account getting the towels cut to size. Title: Re: 131 racing seat towels Post by: parrish on February 11, 2009, 06:37:46 PM Crikey!
OK maybe just a couple for the front seats then. How much does that work out to? to do just the backs of the front seats? Steve Title: Re: 131 racing seat towels Post by: sid131 on February 12, 2009, 09:03:48 AM i had better go back to school 5 logos @ 20 each & towel @ 10 = 110 euro,
the quality is great so anyone else interested let me know. Title: Re: 131 racing seat towels Post by: CkRacing on February 12, 2009, 09:18:35 AM Hi Sid i will order a set for the front seats, i will paypal you the money to the same address as before, is that ok?
Title: Re: 131 racing seat towels Post by: sid131 on February 12, 2009, 10:36:52 AM same address as for the spoiler Ck.
Title: Re: 131 racing seat towels Post by: sid131 on February 12, 2009, 10:55:16 AM Steve just the front seat backs would be 2 towels sized (better quality towels no border all black) 2 "fiat Racing" logos on each towel & 2 eylets for the headrests,
price will be 50 euro each towel so 100 euro + post , not making any money on this thats just what they will cost. Hi 124AC have you got any prices or samples etc? this is the best i can come up with. Title: Re: 131 racing seat towels Post by: sid131 on March 31, 2009, 04:06:42 PM Took a while as the embroidery machine broke down half way through the job, this is what my man came up with i left it up to him they are not the same as the originals but i am happy with the result & will brighten up the interior,
CkRacing have pmd you already, Title: Re: 131 racing seat towels Post by: CkRacing on March 31, 2009, 05:43:26 PM They are excellent Sid, looking forward to getting mine, thanks.
Title: Re: 131 racing seat towels Post by: sid131 on March 31, 2009, 07:11:57 PM Hi Ck Racing they are wrapped & will be posted recorded delivery tomorrow hope you like them.
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