I’m involved with several Vintage Ferrari projects and not all of them are currently at my shop! I am assembling one SII 330, but a second one is coming out of paint and is being partially assembled at another shop. The stainless steel brightwork was about to be installed, so I decided to grab the pieces and polish them back here. The trim was in good shape, but now was the time to give these a little bit of polish so they would look their best reinstalled on a freshly painted car.

Unfortunately, cleaning the work of the previous shop is always in the way of simply polishing parts. It looks like a previous shop had used silicone glue to seal some of the trim pieces, so they needed to be carefully scraped off before polishing.

Some of these glues have gotten really strong through the years, and sometimes there isn’t a good solvent to remove the stuff when only manually scraping will work!

I even used a heat lamp to soften some of the glues to help with removal, but it takes all sort of techniques and patience to take it all off!