Let there be seats!

Luckily, nearly every part you will ever need for the 500 is available online from various sources - spares companies or eBay (other online auctions are available). Apart from seats it seems. 

Sure, you can buy seat covers in many shades, foam and springs but try and buy the seats frames - no chance. Not even on PastaBay (that's Italian eBay for the uninitiated). As previously mentioned, Massi came with rather 80s looking seats from what I think was the 126 which looked awful. One of the previous owners had also removed the rear bench seat and fitted a rather shoddy looking home-made wooden panel to which speakers were fitted.

Home-made rear interior..... classy!

Suddenly, we spotted a set of correct 500 front seats and the vertical part of the rear seat that had just come up on eBay. We knew these didn't come up often had had to buy them, and luckily both items had no other bids so we won them. They were only an hour or so down the road, so off we went one evening and scooped them up.

Proper seats!

The 126 seats were soon slid off the seat rails and replaced with the 500 seats. These were actually from the 500L model (they have the vertical lines in the seat covers) but we want to change the colour anyway so the covers can easily be swapped for authentic 500F covers. Once fitted, the interior looked much better!

A slightly better looking 500 interior

The next plan was to try and sort out the electrics to see what works and what doesn't before I strip him down. Would he start? Who knows!