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- Mon Jul 13, 2020 11:49 pm
- Forum: Vintage Ferraris
- Topic: Please let us know when the Alfa is safely through customs
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1924
Re: Please let us know when the Alfa is safely through customs
But then I've heard of a restored Triumph TR6, in New Zealand, going for it's re-certification for being used on public roads, requiring it's fully restored chassis to be cut in half so they could ascertain that it was not rusty on the inside. I'm planning to get my GTV re-certified later this year ...
- Mon Jul 13, 2020 11:43 pm
- Forum: Vintage Ferraris
- Topic: Please let us know when the Alfa is safely through customs
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1924
Re: Please let us know when the Alfa is safely through customs
Oh dear. Unfortunately I've heard of a Mustang, I think, where they started chipping away at perfectly good original sound deadening. Back in the old days, yes this would contain asbestos, but perfectly safe when contained like it was ... and I've heard of worse things but cannot remember the gory d...
- Sun Jul 12, 2020 4:55 am
- Forum: Vintage Ferraris
- Topic: Please let us know when the Alfa is safely through customs
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1924
Please let us know when the Alfa is safely through customs
I'm so worried for that Alfa. I've heard horror stories of cars being subject to destructive testing, all I believe at the owners cost.
Fingers nails are being bitten ...
Pete
Fingers nails are being bitten ...
Pete
- Sat Jul 04, 2020 6:08 pm
- Forum: Vintage Ferraris
- Topic: So glad that professional panel shops have trouble
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1093
So glad that professional panel shops have trouble
Tom, It is refreshing to read that your professional panel shop also has trouble getting panel lines, shapes right. I've spent years confusing myself with my Alfa 1750 GTV restoration, maki mg templates of other cars and getting home and for some reason things don't make sense. I've actually found t...
- Tue Apr 28, 2020 3:11 am
- Forum: Vintage Ferraris
- Topic: Tom, impressed with your methodical problem solving
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2481
Re: Tom, impressed with your methodical problem solving
Tom, I was meaning all the fixes you do on your blog. No this will just work attitude, but a thorough investigation into the real cause, and then a tidy result. Unfortunately you are often fixing those, yeah that will do fixes that are so common on foreign cars. My Alfa 1750 GTV is/was full of them....
- Sun Apr 26, 2020 10:24 pm
- Forum: Vintage Ferraris
- Topic: Tom, impressed with your methodical problem solving
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2481
Tom, impressed with your methodical problem solving
Tom,
Really impressed how you identify the real problem, and then very tidy solution.
Stay safe
Pete
Really impressed how you identify the real problem, and then very tidy solution.
Stay safe
Pete
- Sun Oct 06, 2019 11:26 pm
- Forum: Vintage Ferraris
- Topic: I'll have the Bora thanks
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1987
Re: I'll have the Bora thanks
Guess I'm the only Bora fan 
Pete

Pete
- Sat Oct 05, 2019 1:04 am
- Forum: Vintage Ferraris
- Topic: I'll have the Bora thanks
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1987
I'll have the Bora thanks
Love the Maserati Bora. Such style and class.
Pete
Pete
- Wed Mar 06, 2019 5:02 am
- Forum: Vintage Ferraris
- Topic: Fingers crossed for the 250PF coupe
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2459
Re: Fingers crossed for the 250PF coupe
Yes current/previous work looks top class.
Such elegant cars
Pete
Such elegant cars
Pete
- Sun Mar 03, 2019 10:01 pm
- Forum: Vintage Ferraris
- Topic: Fingers crossed for the 250PF coupe
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2459
Fingers crossed for the 250PF coupe
Hope she stays as a Pininfarina coupe 
Best
Pete

Best
Pete
- Thu Apr 12, 2018 4:58 am
- Forum: Vintage Ferraris
- Topic: Daytona exhaust
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2777
Re: Daytona exhaust
I think a lot of us are envious, but I also imagine that after time even these lovely old Ferraris sometimes become just cars that want to fight every effort to fix them :( I imagine that you have customers that are prepared to spend and do it right, more than the local car repair garage does ... bu...
- Wed Apr 11, 2018 3:48 am
- Forum: Vintage Ferraris
- Topic: Daytona exhaust
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2777
Daytona exhaust
Tom, Your heart must have sunk when that drain plug broke! ... BTW: I have to have a chuckle at Francois' gas weld. Very obvious that he really did work at Ferrari during that period as that weld really looks like the welds we see in pictures and typical for Ferrari. Wonderful, keeping this car so o...
- Thu Mar 29, 2018 5:11 pm
- Forum: Vintage Ferraris
- Topic: 365 GTC/4 airbox/cleaner
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2023
365 GTC/4 airbox/cleaner
Tom, Have you ever thought of just leaving the air horns off? MY Alfa 71' 1750GTV has a large airbox but no air horns. Most in the Alfa community believe the factory airbox is at least as efficient as running air horns. But air horns minus the airbox do sound better, but with the 365 GTC/4 you would...
- Sat Jan 07, 2017 5:22 am
- Forum: Vintage Ferraris
- Topic: Painting a V12 engine
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7536
Re: Painting a V12 engine
Matt,
I'm surprised to read you painted Alfa 105 series aluminium parts as they were never painted by the factory. Alfa Romeo castings were not porous like Ferrari ones of the 60's.
I wonder what year Ferrari stopped painting their engines?
Pete
I'm surprised to read you painted Alfa 105 series aluminium parts as they were never painted by the factory. Alfa Romeo castings were not porous like Ferrari ones of the 60's.
I wonder what year Ferrari stopped painting their engines?
Pete
- Tue Jul 22, 2014 7:25 am
- Forum: Vintage Ferraris
- Topic: Rusty GTE
- Replies: 16
- Views: 10602
Rusty GTE
Would it make sense to get the underneath soda blasted or something? Being an Alfisti I strongly believe rust never sleeps and grows so if I see it I get rid of it ...
I hope it can be saved.
Pete
I hope it can be saved.
Pete