Someone PLEASE post some Daytona stuff....

Does this portion of the board need to be renamed "P4 arguements" ?

While I really appreciate Jims efforts and think his car is great.... I for one and really tired of P4 arguement posts being the majority of stuff in the vintage section!

My Daytona is still at Bo Pirkles shop. He is supposed to be adjusting the hood fit, adjusting the passengers door fit, touching up some stress cracks in the nose, touching up a few other minor paint blemishes and giving the car a good wet sand and buff. He has had it for 6 weeks so far.... and when I spoke with him yesterday I learned he has actually yet to even start on it. I am at this point pretty dang despondent.

Bo is very, very good at what he does. I know he can blend the paint and touch things up so that its impossible to tell any work has ever been done. He is a master. BUT.... I am losing it! 6 freaking weeks without my car and he has done NOTHING! Im at a loss as to what to do. Part of me wants to tell him to shove it and go get my car. Another part wants the work done to perfection, and I dont know of anywhere else that I can trust to do it right. Then again, at the current rate of progress he will still have my car 10 years from now. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Im also facing the prospect of an even bigger interior restoration project. Last winter, I paid an old timer in Florida to redo my seats with some NOS leather seat covers I got when I bought the car. They needed to be re-dyed. He totally botched teh job. The dye was peeling off all over both seats... a terrible job. So, while the car was in the for some paint work I decided to strip and re-dye the seats again myself. I really worked at it. I stripped them back to the base leather. I used leatherique and followed the instructions to the letter. They came out terrible. Horrible.

So.... now basically I want new seat covers. If I am going to totally redo the seats, I want them to the cars original interior color which was tan/black. That means I will need new door panels to match and will have to recover the center console. So, I ordered all new stuff from re-originals. My car will soon have a 100% perfect and correct tan/black leather interior. That is if I ever actually get it back from Bo.

So, at this point in time I am REALLY jonesing for Daytona! Come on guys and help me out. Post some good Daytona stories. Post some fresh pics. Lets hear some good non-arguementative, non-0846 focused Daytona talk!


Terry

 

Already did Pete. Dont get me wrong, I like reading about Jims car. Its just those threads are 95% junk and finding the 5% of decent stuff is a freaking task. I mean really..... do I NEED to read yet another post from horsefly complaining about unfair double standards for decadent Ferrari elitists? The guy sounds like he has spent far too much time reading Karl Marx!


Dr Tax....

Subscribed? rossa what? Where do I go man? Dont lord it over me you cruel beast, point me in the right direction!


Terry

 

Jim, I have read about Grossman of coarse. Raced a Daytona at Sebring, I think the first Daytona to be raced. Forza recently had some good articles on this.

The cannonball Daytona would be sweet!

I should be subscribed now!


Terry

 

I dont get "upset" at internet chat boards. Bored is a better term. I do scan briefly through all posts on a thread if it has any interest to me because thats the only way to pick out the interesting parts. I do indeed scan yours extremely quickly, it usually takes only a second to see that there is nothing new there.... the same old envy driven class warefare tainted dribble, sometimes entertaining but usually just long winded.

I dont use an ignore function unless its an extreme problem. After all, even provactive nutcases are frequently entertaining! I actually do agree with some of horseflys points relative to 0846.... does a small section of original chassis tubing justify a full identity to a lost car?????.....who knows??? BUT I honestly just dont care all that much. Having 0846 and its history "back" from the grave would be fun. I like fun. Whats the big deal? IT looks like a P4, sounds like a P4, will probably drive like a P4...... so if it ends up actually being a P4 what do I care?

Anyhow horsefly... dont get your panties in a wad.

I beleive the Cannonball Daytona is now owned by Bruce McCaw and has been restored to perfection. I saw some notes and pics of it in a magazine a few years back and the car was stunning. "Rode hard and put away wet" is only relative if the car has not been restored or maintained. Daytonas are strong cars.

Dr Tax..... What I want to read is all about YOUR new Daytona! Come on man... pull the trigger! You only live once.

Terry

 

Im not buying complete new seats, though they do sell those. My frames and cushions are in excellent shape, all I need is new seat covers. They do say they are made from the original dies in Italy. Its going to take 30 days to get them too me. The door panels are all new as well. I will have my excellent condition all black door panels for sale....


Terry

 

I have not seen that one Milt. I have not actually scanned those other articles yet. Its on the ever growing "to do" list. I still owe a few folks copies of the disc as well so to all you folks.... they WILL come.

I have a hard time seeing the 456 as even remotely comperable to the Daytona. I love my Daytona and would not even consider a 456. They are just totally different cars aimed at a totally different type of customer. Im not talking about when the Daytona was new, I mean today. The kind of guy today who wants a 456 is very unlikely to want a Daytona and the other way around is equally applicable.

The 550 is much the same. One is a vintage, raw, loud and visceral experience that demands 100% of your attention.... the other is a totally competent, modern, luxurious, sophisticated computer controlled excercise in making a car blindingly fast and boring at the same time. Of coarse I may be a bit biased!


Terry