It’s been a while since my last blog post. I’m fine, but just been very busy. As much time as I spend running my business fixing, restoring, and helping others with their Vintage Ferraris, I have to find time for my personal life and it’s a balance where something has to give, and the blog was this month’s sacrifice. I’ve been blogging for over 25 years and often look back to see the massive amount of content I’ve posted to this website. It’s a resource I that use myself to remind and refresh my memory on how I fixed things on certain cars I’ve worked on in the past. As I get older, I get even more forgetful, so it’s a resource that I value and I hope you do too! For this simple reason, I hope to continue posting, but sometimes there just isn’t enough time!

I’m sure some of you know, I’ve also started a YouTube Channel and have been posting content there regularly for the past few years. If I thought a blog post was hard, posting a fully shot, produced, directed, and edited video every week took even more time! I don’t mind because I feel the video medium describes what I do working on Vintage Ferraris is sometimes more descriptive than pictures and story that my blog has done for years. I also recognize the way people consume content on the internet has changed. Less and less people actively search out websites because of the distractions of social media. When Facebook, Instagram, and twitter, push content to your phone or computer, to read and watch, that leaves very little time for you to actively look for other content. I try to keep active on other platforms, but posting on other platforms takes time away from my other projects! Why do I do it? Community. As one generation of Vintage Ferrari ownership ages, a new generation of owners comes in, and if we can’t reach them, they may not know about this great community that exists that started from the owners of Vintage Ferraris when they were communicating with faxes and phone calls! I seemed to have bridged that gap when I first started blogging 25 years ago when I met the founders of the Vintage Ferrari Community. Of course when they started, their Ferraris weren’t considered “Vintage!” I’ll keep blogging, but I hope you look for me on other social media and YouTube to continue growing the Vintage Ferrari Community into the future!

Speaking of new owners welcomed into the fold of Vintage Ferrari ownership, I sent a car out from my shop to a new owner in Chicago. This dark blue 365GT 2+2 has belonged to a customer of mine for several years, and was recently sold to a new owner. I introduced buyer and seller, and an agreement was made.

I often become friends with my clients and make a connection with their cars, so selling a car is always a bittersweet transition. I will never know if I’ll see a car again as it heads onto a truck to its new owner, and I hope to stay in touch with the previous owner. The good news is the new owner called me shortly after receiving the car, ecstatic about the car and his new Vintage Ferrari ownership. If you see this dark blue 365GT 2+2 on the roads around Chicago, tell the new owner hello from me!

Work is on going at the shop with a assembly of little pieces for the 330GT 2+2 restoration. Restoring these little reflectors was more involved than their outward appearance. The plastic reflectors had to be carefully removed from their frames that were held in place with tabs bent over in the back. One of the studs had to repaired because it had broken off. Years of dirt and debris had to be cleaned, and the lenses polished before reassembly with a new backing gasket. It was a lot of work of a small pair of reflectors on the back of the car, but it all added up to the beauty of a restored Ferrari!

Another example of all the little pieces involved in a Vintage Ferrari restoration was the windshield squirters. Each squirter had four pieces not including thin gaskets that sealed the parts together. It’s freshly chromed pieces like these that will really make this car sparkle when it all comes together on the car!