Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Gavins 308GTB repaired and bits wanted

[clyde romero (clyderomero]

You only get lucky once!

Don't press your luck 

My bet you did not have a fire extinguisher with 100' of the car when you
did this
And you did it inside so that if the car went up so did your house (bonus)

Others have not been so lucky!

         
 clyde
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Gavin [mailto:gavinnz [at] xtra.co.nz] 
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 9:05 AM
To: clyde
Cc: The FerrariList
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Gavins 308GTB repaired and bits wanted

Well I have the car back together after having the exhaust pipe cracked 
right through (rusty) on the first drive home!
It was the last 2.5 inches where the front 4 headers come into one, then 
their is a short 2.5 inch straight bit and a flange that mates to the flange

and pipe going to the muffler... well that straight bit was stuffed.... and 
it had been wraped in exhaust tape and wire to "fix" it some time in the 
past...

I cut the bit of pipe right out and welded a new bit to the flange off the 
car then gas welded the overlaped pipe back on the the end of the headers...

Most Ferrari owners would have had a screaming apoplictic fit at the sight 
of me with a oxy aceteline flame under the car and within a foot of the gas 
tank!!!
But it was ok as I was very carefull and had wet rags over all bits that 
might have either got damaged or blowen up :)

It felt good to do some work on the car to reward it for the fun I had on 
the drive home.

QUESTIONS.

Can anyone help me source a new rubber flap the folds down from around the 
gas cap when puting petrol in the car?
I have one bit it is almost in two parts.

I am also after one or two new or second hand 308GTB 1978 type windscreen 
wiper arms.. can anyone help with those?
One of mine is totally incorrect and the other one is missing it's little 
cover over the nut.  Are they from some other more common Italian car 
also???

I am still looking at the car in the shed and it looks like a picture in a 
magazine... not like a real car... it's going to take some getting used too 
:)

Regards
Gavin




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