Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Pics from Rick - interior restoration

[Doug & Terri (dnt]

308  Consul switches

First – I am VERY envious of your, uh, antenna switch.  It stands vertical.  That means it may be an actual working model.  If it is – you could sell side show tickets and display it.  It’s rare.  Most antenna switches go kaput or however an Italian would say ‘they break.’ 

 

Ours was broken when we got our car.  When we got our car home, that was one of the first ‘2dos’ I ventured into.  The console – what a surprise – especially the cigarette lighter.  Shove a cig into the lighter – fire up the evil weed and let it smoke up the entire underside of the console with cigarette tars.  Whatta crap lighter. 

 

My second surprise was when I mounted the defective switch in a vise to hold it and prized off the cover it whet ‘spang’ and parts went into orbit.  I saved what I could find and replaced the switch an over the counter DPDT momentary switch and affixed an official finger paddle to it.  Looks ok at a glance.

 

Number two – the rocker switch.  Could that be the switch that activates the light found in the brake handle?  Yeah, our ’78 GTS has a light buried in the handle and its goal is to light up the console – also to burn the crap out of your right hand if you get it close to the exposed but hidden bulb.  So Ferrari.

 

Again – thanks for the great pictures Rick –

 

DOUG

PS – is that your Mustang?

 

From: Ferrari [mailto:ferrari-bounces+dnt=dock.net [at] ferrarilist.com] On Behalf Of Rick Moseley
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2016 4:46 AM
To: DOUG <dnt [at] dock.net>
Cc: The FerrariList <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Pics from Rick - interior restoration

 

George, good eye... 

Even better question.

 

I have no F'ing clue.

 

It was there when I got the car and it annoyed me.  When I did the restoration work I found no wires connected to it nor any evidence of a harness.    As part of the resto work I converted to a 1982 center console with the side-by-side gauge orientation so its now gone anyway.  Yeah,I'm not a purest.   It's my car and I'll do things my way.  

 

I've had a few offline questions about other work I did, so for those who didn't backtrack the URL, here is the home for all the resto work online.

 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/moseley_ferrari/albums

 

Thanks,

Rick

 

 

 

 

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From: George <ygpz4re [at] hotmail.com>
To: Rick Moseley <ramosel [at] pacbell.net>
Cc: The FerrariList <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2016 4:23 AM
Subject: [Ferrari] Pics from Rick - interior restoration

 

Rick - what is that rocker switch for on the driver's side of the center console, just below the two gauges?  Looks somewhat out of place, is it factory original?

 

Thanks,

 

George P.

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