The front suspension rebuild was moving along nicely on this 17K original mile Dino.

As I worked on this car, I loved discovering the little details that have been preserved through the years. The rear splash shields from the rear wheel wells still showed the original grease pencil markings of the Scaglietti build number.

Pininfarina and Scaglietti used this build number to keep track of all the parts used to assemble these cars. These were often (not always) sequential to the build order but were not matched to a particular Serial Number. Since these cars were hand fitted, sometimes a splash shield had to be filed down to fit a wheel opening or a door panel had to be cut down to fit a door that was a different size. This number helped factory workers keep the hand fitted parts with the same car. These numbers are very helpful in confirming body panels and parts fitted to the car are the same as when it left the factory. This matching it not precise, and I have found many discrepancies with internal assembly numbers, but generally, they help confirm an original car.

There are a couple inspection covers under this Dino that may look pretty rusty, but look like they have never been removed from the car. I started to remove them but found the original slotted screws seized in place. Any more force and I knew they were going to strip, or shear, so I left them alone for now. I cleaned off the surface rust and painted the panel for now.

The underside of this car may look bad to the untrained eye, but I see a lot of low mileage originality. The semi-gloss paint applied to the large sheet of fiberglass forming the flat floor of this car shows only one layer of paint with the raw fiberglass showing through.

I finished installing the suspension and rebuilt steering rack, and scheduled an appointment for an alignment.