Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Buya dis caraa I only use it to visit my grandma !

[Douglas Anderson (dnt]

Scotty’s blast from the past “We once found a significant bodywork repair on a 250lm that was clearly a road sign. Had lettering and part of an arrow.”

 

Hah.  Testing a turn at 11/10ths . . . what the hell, Newton was English – NOT Italian so what did he know?

 

In the olden days – you know grandpa – like way back in the 70’s, Porsche would road toast, uh, test each car several miles.  Snap a bra on (the car) and away they went.  That’s when the annual production didn’t exceed 14,000 units.  Question – did Ferrari do that too?

 

GM Test drives.  Another great job I had was working on the assembly line at GM’s South Gate, California, plant.  They test drove every car that left the assembly line – WITHOUT seats.  The test drive consisted of the road boy hopping in the no seat car, starting up for the first time, leaving the door open a crack and sighting the docking lot through the crack between body and door.  Woo woo.  One car came off the line every 30 seconds or so. And THAT was the extent of their test drive.  Never saw an accident.

 

Picture this – 1999 just after the San Marino GP and we are at the Ferrari factory.  Running full bore.  F360’s leave the final assembly and parked, oh, here, there, everywhere.  It was the era of soft colors and pale hues – and the rounded 360’s parked hither and yon looked like a box of Easter eggs.

 

Those were the days sonny boy – most likely never to be repeated.  Now go back to your two dimensional Game Boy.  Alas

 

Onward

Doug

 

From: Ferrari <ferrari-bounces+dnt=dock.net [at] ferrarilist.com> On Behalf Of scott saidel
Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2020 8:34 AM
To: DOUG <dnt [at] dock.net>
Cc: The FerrariList <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Buya dis caraa I only use it to visit my grandma !

 

The guy that does final paint checks at the factory went blind in the ‘90s.  “Itsa good”

 

When I was at Classic Coach we did all the ‘fixes’ for FNA.  Anything that was factory defect or shipping damage.  Some of the shit I saw was WOW. 

 

Once got a yellow 360 that had brown cheetah marks in the paint, under the clear.  (But not on the deck lids or gas cap - they came from a different line). Best guess was dirty nozzle on paint gun. Had to disassemble and respray the whole car. 

 

On the 360s the trapezoidal grilles in the front bumper were held on by 6 or 7 screws. Not unusual to find three different screw heads. 

 

But if you really want to get ugly, tear into one of the classics From the 50’s or 60’s. Electronics especially.  Entire wiring harness made up of seemingly random wires that change colors within the loom. We called that the spaghetti factory.   

We once found a significant bodywork repair on a 250lm that was clearly a road sign. Had lettering and part of an arrow.

 

Yeah it was fun stuff

 

Scottie 

Sent from my iPhone

On Mar 28, 2020, at 9:00 AM, Erik Nielsen <judge4re [at] gmail.com> wrote:



Looking at the shot of the underside, who painted this thing, Stevie Wonder?

On Mar 28, 2020, at 7:58 AM, Clarence Romero Jr. <clyderomerof4 [at] gmail.com> wrote:

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/2012-ferrari-458-italia-5/?utm_source=dailymail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2020-03-28

 

A 7 year old car with less than 1k/year on it

What could go wrong here?

Tell me 

Inquiring mind want to know 

 

 

     RF4-4EVR

Scars are Tattoos with better stories !

 

If you have no enemies, you have no character !

 

Clyde Romero    

 

 

Confidentiality Notice:  This e-mail ( including attachments ) is covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U. S. C., Sections 2510-2521, and is intended only for the persons or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain confidential or privileged material.  Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, dissemination, copying, forwarding or distribution is prohibited.

This email transmission, and any documents, files or previous email messages attached to it, may contain confidential information that is priviledged.  If you are not the intended recipient, or a person responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the information containes in or attached to this message is STRICTLY PROHIBITED.  If you have received this transmission in error, please immediately notify us by reply e-mail at Clyderomerof4 [at] gmail.com or  by telephone at (678 6419932)and destroy the original transmission and its attachments without reading them or saving them to disk.

_________________________________________________________________
To unsubscribe or modify your subscription options, please visit:
https://lists.ferrarilist.com/mailman/options/ferrari/judge4re%40gmail.com

Sponsored by BooyahMedia.com
and F1 Headlines
http://www.F1Headlines.com/

_________________________________________________________________
To unsubscribe or modify your subscription options, please visit:
https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url="">

Sponsored by BooyahMedia.com
and F1 Headlines
https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url="">