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02-18-2012, 04:24 PM
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As to why the car was restored 16 years ago to non-original spec can only be answered with the question as to why people change the colors of their classics. Personal preference I suppose? At any rate, there seems to be an understanding now that these works of art are best appreciated by most as they were originally presented. Sort of a respect for the original artisan. 
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02-18-2012, 10:28 PM
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02-18-2012, 10:36 PM
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06-13-2012, 04:23 PM
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The engine saga continues...
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06-13-2012, 11:36 PM
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the gentleman "ASA" who send me also these pictures yesterday + a 4th one, argued they were shoot just before the Turin exhibition... demonstrating the cradle of ceramic tiles legend argued by Ferruccio at Turin wasn't true !
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06-14-2012, 01:19 AM
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Another Lamborghini myth destroyed! Well, almost...
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#49
06-14-2012, 11:22 PM
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It's Wallace who talked about the tiles... I don't think there's any question about that.
(from the Lyons book) >>"It was a non runner," says Bob Wallace. "The engine was never installed. The car was put on display at the show with a crate of ceramic tiles in the engine compartment."
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06-15-2012, 12:19 AM
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06-15-2012, 12:51 PM
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But then, Joe, why was it that when the car was restored it turned out that even the suspension was only tacked-welded in place, various parts just hanging. It was never finishing to a point where even if the engine was installed, the car itself could not have been driven. Even the firewall didn't have room for the rear-facing distributors, that had to be worked out in the restoration.
Hey -- I'm not arguing ... I'm just sayin' ;^D Fred
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06-15-2012, 01:16 PM
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I haven't a clue, and I must confess that's probably because I haven't seriously studied this subject matter. At least when I don't know, I say I don't know!
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06-15-2012, 04:40 PM
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There was an engine inside during the construction and the presentation at Sant'Agata, confirmed by pictures at Sargiotto and Sant'Agata.
During my first interview with Stanzani, he talked to me about the tiles but when I discovered there was an engine inside, I called him back (Stanzani was not the only one to talk about the tiles). He confirmed to me there is an engine inside, a mock-up, a non-running piece, just the engine block without cylinders but with the trumpets of the carburetors to show the dimensions. Why then putting tiles inside the engine compartment 10 days later at Torino's show after the presentation in Sant'Agata (if any place was left to put them) ? Stanzani told me the tiles were put since the mock-up wasn't heavy enough to keep the car's front down. But to me, during the presentation at Sant'Agata 10 days before, the car does not seem that high from the ground to justify this decision and we are sure during that occasion there were no tiles and the lid was opened (see picture in the last book about Ferruccio by Tonino), but at Torino they kept the engine compartment closed ... Was the engine removed during those 10 days but why then ?
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#54
06-16-2012, 02:22 AM
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Since there was an engine on display in Torino it might well be that they took this mock up out of the car and it was displayed, then the whole history with the tiles makes sense...
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