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

[Rick Moseley (ramosel]

Doug,

The antenna switch....  was working intermittently but had to be taken apart and heavily massaged internally.  Put a mig blob on the contacts, filed back to shape, then home electroplated with root killer solution.  The real problem was finding a better condition replacement antenna that worked with "manual" control.  Everything today is automatic.   But thanks to Keegan, I got a rebuild-able one of those too.

I too have a light in the EBrake handle but mine is wired to the interior lights.   

Fortunately, the cig lighter is wired always on...  Mine was gross.  Original owner was a 50yo woman who died of cancer...  go figure.  Thanks to Keegan I got an OEM, but used, replacement that looks like it was never used.  When I'm finished that will be my input source for my Battery Tender.  Besides being a smoker, the original owner was blind or careless... perhaps both.  I'll take just a moment to disgust you with the findings in the bowels of the shifter housing.   Obviously mistaken as the ashtray on many occasions, jelly beans, dead bugs, diamond earring (pawned for $450), acrylic fingernail, Safe deposit box key, dried gum and a few others that defied forensic analysis.

The phantom console switch... There were signs of my car once having an alarm - small... teenie red lights, not LEDs, next to interior door locks (I think they were referred to as "grain of wheat" light bulbs).  So thought maybe that switch was related to an alarm?   Manual override for radiator fans?  I don't know.     I just went out and looked at the original console...  the switch was either very well done or factory?  The hole in the fiberglass doesn't have that "hack job" look you get from most aftermarket, stereo shop, smart boys.  And, the leather was triangle cut and folded into the rectangular hole...  So that supports either a job well done or factory switch.   The more I know, the less I know.

Rick

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From: Doug & Terri <dnt [at] dock.net>
To: 'Rick Moseley' <ramosel [at] pacbell.net>
Cc: 'The FerrariList' <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2016 7:01 AM
Subject: RE: [Ferrari] Pics from Rick - interior restoration

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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