 Thanks to International Auto Parts, I now have a Fiat Spider I would not hesitate to take across the country, and, a memorable story of doing just that.
I've always been something of an impulsive person. When I first saw my yellow '78 Fiat Spider on a popular auction web site, I decided the time was right for me to fulfill my goal of owning an Italian sports car. The car was just what I was looking for: west coast car, (I live in Virginia) lots of new parts, and best of all, I had a business trip planned the week after the auction ended in San Francisco--only a few hours north of the car’s home in Southern California. Throw some spare parts and tools in my luggage just in case, and drive her home. Perfect!
You may be muttering that I'm probably delusional as well as impulsive. My daydreams of a trouble-free journey zipping across the country in a 27-year-old Fiat evaporated over a span of a few hundred feet of hill on Rt.1 about 3 hours into my drive to San Francisco.
IAP had been extremely helpful to me before my trip with advice and recommended spare parts, so I turned to them with the nearly impossible problem of getting me a new trans mount, and U-joint
What the collapsed transmission mount had begun, the speed bumps in Las Vegas finished. All the studs on the exhaust manifold skipped town, and I was faced with the prospect of going deaf between Vegas and Virginia.
Vise grips to the rescue! Well, for a few hours anyway…. Then it was… Earplugs and a coat hanger to the rescue! (I replaced my now cracked exhaust manifold after I returned home with an IAP Header)
Ominous clouds were now on the horizon both literally and figuratively. I flashed back to an image in my head of the previous owner saying, "I honestly don't know if the top leaks, it hasn’t rained since I bought it.” And, to the look of disgust I gave him for being so foolish as to live in a place where it is 75 and sunny 364 days of the year
I’ve enclosed a picture of my Spider on a very rural section of Rt. 66. It was comforting to know that no matter where I was, IAP was willing to do everything they could to keep me and my Fiat on the road.
Sincerely,
Mark Sawyer
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