I went back to the wreckers again today to try and retrieve those seats. All did not go according to plan.
I had my cordless driver and tried to remove them with the Torx bit, but it wasn't having any of it. I then tried using the socket wrench but couldn't get it to budge. I had brought along my breaker bar which surely should do the trick, except for one thing. The breaker bar is 1/2, the Torx is 3/8. I thought I had packed the drive adapter but, apparently, that was not the case.
I asked if they had any tools I could use and was told that no, they didn't have any tools. "But the website said...". Well, that didn't work. I told the woman that I needed to go get a tool. She wouldn't let me keep my tools there as they didn't want to take responsibility. I left my cart which had a few emblems, shift lever, and a driver-side knee panel. The first hardware store I went to did not carry adapters. (What kind of hardware store doesn't carry these!?). I had to go further afield and was able to get one. This had taken some time.
When I returned with what I needed, I found that in the time I was gone someone had already taken the seats. The truck had been there for 3 weeks, and they went in the half-hour I was gone! He was there removing the center console.
"You Bastard!", I screamed! ..sometime later.
The wagon containing the emblems and dash piece, someone had taken it - with the emblems. I mean, I know who took it, but accusing them in a junkyard would have been a poor decision, despite having a long breaker bar.
The shift lever, for the record, ended up in my tool bag. It wasn't intentional. I thought I had lost it somewhere in the yard. It was of little consolation.
At this point, my will had been broken and I wanted nothing more to do with the yard and the other set of seats.