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21-03-2015
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| Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Aberdeenshire
Posts: 785 Thanks: 8 Trader Rating: 0   | Alfa Papa Time for the worst kept secret to be revealed. New wheels  Having an early start (8am train to Inverness) I picked up a familiar 147 today. Ti 150bhp. Luuuuvly. Thanks to Hamish @ABZSTILO for the heads up. Hope you dont miss her too much.
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21-03-2015
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Posts: 3,273 Thanks: 0 Trader Rating: 0 | Thats a **** pic.. get some better ones up Will be a good un if it was Hamish's.. he likes a clean car.. |
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21-03-2015
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| Stick your own title  | Congrats on the purchase. But i agree... ffs, get better pics hahaha!
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22-03-2015
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Posts: 785 Thanks: 8 Trader Rating: 0 |  Originally Posted by Stuart Thats a **** pic.. get some better ones up Will be a good un if it was Hamish's.. he likes a clean car..
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22-03-2015
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Posts: 263 Thanks: 13 Trader Rating: 0 | Christ that's handbrakes good  Can you not use the pictures Hamish sent you? I'm sure he wouldn't mind especially as the car's no longer his. I bet you're definitely glad you didn't buy the Eleganza now
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22-03-2015
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Posts: 785 Thanks: 8 Trader Rating: 0 | You mean the S.S Peestain? Fecking relieved!!
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23-03-2015
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Posts: 510 Thanks: 0 Trader Rating: 0 | Nice. Didn't realise it was a facelift model too. Does it have the Ti Seats? Some of the best seats fitted to any car IMO (very similar to GT seats, just with slightly smaller bolsters).
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23-03-2015
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Posts: 785 Thanks: 8 Trader Rating: 0 | Not sure - but they're leather, if that help?
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23-03-2015
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Posts: 11 Thanks: 0 Trader Rating: 0 | Good stuff Martyn...always liked the 147's that I've had...Enjoy. p.s. I've got a couple of spare alloys of that type your welcome to, I could chuck in the boot the next time I see you. I had them for winter tyres.
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23-03-2015
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Posts: 785 Thanks: 8 Trader Rating: 0 | Thanks for the offer fella - I *think* I'm ok for the time being as I have the original 17" alloys now sitting in storage thanks to @Stuarty - plus a full set of spare tyres (summer iirc with some decent tread!) for the winter wheels which are on at present. Astra just did one last run full to the brim of spares lol
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24-03-2015
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| Stick your own title | There's a really, really strange thing i LOVE about 147's..... one of those really unexplainable things without folk thinking you have lost whatever of the plot you had left.... The steering wheel. It's one of the most important things but one of the most overlooked, it's the thing you touch/feel constantly in a car. The 147's is just "right". Perfect size, perfect thickness, first thing i ever noticed sitting in the drivers seat of one was that they got the wheel, to my taste and what i want, perfect.
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24-03-2015
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Posts: 785 Thanks: 8 Trader Rating: 0 | YES! I know exactly what you mean having had this for a couple of days. My hatred of corners has been well documented since el panda ended up upside down, but the 147 feels very VERY responsive, almost train like in and out of the bends and I guess part of that is the feedback through that. The wheel is just spot on and all the ancillary controls, once you're used to them, are spot on.
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24-03-2015
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Posts: 510 Thanks: 0 Trader Rating: 0 | And the conversion begins I love Fiats, brilliant little cars, but Alfa's have that extra little something I could never find in a Fiat.
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25-03-2015
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Posts: 785 Thanks: 8 Trader Rating: 0 | Roll on a day off so I can take the car for a wash and full clean. I know, I know...it's been a while!
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