Image Unavailable, Please Login Restauration of the rear fog lights - before: Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login disassembly: Image Unavailable, Please Login restored parts, repro labels: Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Done: Image Unavailable, Please Login
Restored and clear coated tail lamps: Image Unavailable, Please Login Problematic insulation shrinkage on some of the lamp sockets: Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login shrink wrap repair: Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Next item to be restored: The front blinker/parking light units, looking pretty grim. Interesting to see the reflector's plastic's degradation on the clear side whereas the orange tinted side remained intact (natural UV filter)! Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login all parts apart, cracked lenses... Image Unavailable, Please Login heavily corroded chromed frames: Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login as re-chroming the frames wasn't an option here (no local supplier), I decided to use black 3M wrap for the time being: Image Unavailable, Please Login The lens cracks were closed up with MEK and the missing areas around the mounting holes rebuilt with clear resin. The cracks are still visible, but closed and structurally bonded: Image Unavailable, Please Login : Wet-sanding the outer surface: Image Unavailable, Please Login Clear coating: Image Unavailable, Please Login Lucking good: Image Unavailable, Please Login
Cleaned up reflectors and cables complete the job: Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login The side repeaters had both stripped studs. I made some studded plates and with a fixtures bonded the repair the the original lenses in their correct positions - both saved: Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
MONDIAL quattrovalvole badges restoration, beginning with marking their positions before removal: Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Condition Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login cleaned out as much as possible: Image Unavailable, Please Login repainting: Image Unavailable, Please Login cleanup: Image Unavailable, Please Login adhesives: Image Unavailable, Please Login
Horse-cleaning: Image Unavailable, Please Login bonnet badge condition: Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login all ready: Image Unavailable, Please Login The Pininfarina badges were cleaned up too, and revealed that someone had cut off their mounting pins and replaced them with double sided tape... many resprays on that car had covered the holes: Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login At least we'll know their positions now because the body still has the pin holes, now visible.
I've wanted to do the lettering on the rear emblem myself for awhile now. Yours looks great and has inspired my to move it up the to do list. Beautiful work all around.
I decided to wrap the windshield and side window trim instead of painting - the result being chip-resistant: Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login some areas clearly show the hand-made nature of those parts, and corrosion damage. I filled the small holes from behind and sanded the visible side: Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login The result is very good: Image Unavailable, Please Login
Door open warning lights looked tired as well: Image Unavailable, Please Login Disassembled and ready to re-assemble: Image Unavailable, Please Login Done: Image Unavailable, Please Login The door courtesy light have suffered much as well: Image Unavailable, Please Login Cleaning after disassembly: Image Unavailable, Please Login Metal parts decorroded and treated with zinc paint: Image Unavailable, Please Login Ready: Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Door light switch as removed - gaskets will need replacement: Image Unavailable, Please Login Corrosion-free, masked (not easy) and ready for paint: Image Unavailable, Please Login Painted: Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login new gaskets: Image Unavailable, Please Login done: Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login New door bellows: Image Unavailable, Please Login
Door retainer cleanup Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Side window wedges and pulleys: Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login after: Image Unavailable, Please Login regulator tensioner: Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login restored: Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Lock finisher Image Unavailable, Please Login
Removable window guides before and after: Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login door lock actuator parts: Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login frame finishers Image Unavailable, Please Login badges and labels complete Image Unavailable, Please Login wiring loom cover lh rear foot well cleanup: Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login door lock sensor/motors with their respective spacers for correct line-up of push-pull rod. Grey driver, black passenger side: Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
As mentioned before, the first thing I do each morning is look at this thread. I am amazed! I have a few questions.... - Did you intend to go to this depth or did it snowball? - What is the end game for you? Will you keep it of do you intend to sell? - What do you do for a living? I ask because the skill set required for you to do this work is wide and deep. Is this the first time you have done this, totally rebuilt a car? - Why Mondial? Answer all or whatever you feel comfortable with. Keep up the amazing work. Oh, and where can I find the wheel stickers? - Ron Sent from my iPad using FerrariChat.com mobile app
Hello Ron thanks for your interest... here we go: It snowballed after the body work/painting was delayed by the initial supplier, which lead to serious (storage) damage on various items that were supposed to go back in "untouched". ... Driving! I still consider cars should be driven - at the risk of damage - maintained, fixed and then driven again. Basically keep. However there are a few other cars I would be selling it for if the financial conditions were appropriate. I am transportation design consultant. I worked as a designer for Citroën first in Paris, then with a car design consultancy in Tokyo and now out of Hongkong with my own studio. You learn as you go. It helps if it's your own car - you can "try". And it helps to get over the "omg it's a Ferrari" barrier and you look at it as task to fulfil. Yes. It's a cool car, it drives nicely, I have owned it for more than 10 years and covered over 85'000miles in it, used it to go to work, to the uni, shopping, moved house with it a few times, my son grew up in it, we ended up in No8 Typhoons and the car performed flawlessly. It's lovely little hand-made piece of automotive design, and almost daily I get thumbs ups from pedestrians or fellow motorists. It makes other people happy too. I thinks that's worth something. Thanks - keep checking the thread ;-) That source dried up. I am thinking of reproducing them in a small series if there is enough demand. Have a good day all and keep wearing those masks until we are through this.... Urs Image Unavailable, Please Login
Number plate lamps: Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Disassembly Image Unavailable, Please Login de-corroding Image Unavailable, Please Login rust-free Image Unavailable, Please Login masked - note the deep corrosion! And repair on one socket: Image Unavailable, Please Login zinc-paint Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login parts ready Image Unavailable, Please Login Done Image Unavailable, Please Login
Door sill protection revival Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login cleaned and re-installed: Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
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Secondary lower door/sill seal: Rubber gasket held on by stainless steel profile pop riveted to the underside of the door: Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Cleaned up and refitted - looks like new: Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Side glass clean-up - out of storage... Image Unavailable, Please Login Water-jet Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login cleaned and polished back Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Thanks so much for your reply. FChat is full of interesting people. Keep up the great work! - And, I need the stickers...... Sent from my iPad using FerrariChat.com mobile app
Yes, with stainless steel kitchen polish... after mechanical and chemical cleaning off everything that had stuck below.
LH front wheel arch condenser air outlet panel as removed: Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login during cleanup Image Unavailable, Please Login clean and straightened as much as possible - it's actually black anodised alloy! Very nice... Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login I painted it black matt for the time being: Image Unavailable, Please Login T The rh battery access panel wasn't in good shape with torn mounting holes so I reproduced it: Image Unavailable, Please Login painted black and equipped with the seal Image Unavailable, Please Login
