Trunk

One thinks of the trunk as being pretty simplistic, but there are actually a bunch of parts that need to be installed.  Previously I had made and installed the panels in the wheel wells.

I had some parts cadmium plated with the last batch of oil filter wrenches.  These included the slide latch that hold the trunk lid up and the catch mechanism used to latch it

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I installed the catch mechanism and the matching piece on the lid, along with the trunk lock.  I was very careful when adjusting and testing this because if you get the lid latched and it won't unlatch, you are in a world of hurt.  The only saving grace might be access through the fuel filler plate, which I left off just in case

Even though there are nice long slots on the latch for the lid, very little adjustment is possible.  Too far to the rear (as the viewed with the lid raised) has it hitting the trunk surround and too far to the front leaves it too high to catch the hook.  So when I tried to get it to catch, I found that the latch mechanism needed to be adjusted higher.  However, there is no vertical adjustment, so I ended up needing some shims.  Here you can see some wood shims that I used to determine the shim height needed.

Once that was done, I made the shims out of some 3/16" thick aluminum.  You can see one of the shims on the left and the final installation on the right.

   

I need to replace all of the bolts holding the hinges.  I also need to polish the aluminum trim pieces and install them.  The spare tire cover and latches need to be installed along with the trunk light switch.  So there is still quite a bit of work yet to be done.

Spent another few hours working on the trunk.  I dug out the trunk light switch and attachment.  Of course the screw holes were stripped, so I had to find larger screws that still looked good.  However, these are Philips head screws, but Ferrari didn't start using that head style until the mid-60s.  So I'll need to stop by a hardware store and try to find appropriate slotted head screws.

I found the aluminum trim pieces for the trunk edges.  First I had to clean some tar like substance from the back and then do some straightening to fit them to the lips.  Lastly I had to open up the screw holes that the auto body guys had filled with bondo.

   

Now they are ready to be sanded and polished.

I cleaned up, painted and installed to rotating clips that hold the spare tire cover down.  Now I'm trying to figure out if there should be another set of clips for the upper section of the cover.  You can see a cut out part in the right picture and there are screw holes that match the clip.

   

My friend, George, also owns a PF coupe and he got the proper plugs for the holes in the spare tire cavity.  I think that they are from some Fiat of the same era.

One more tidbit in the trunk.  This car has a metal sliding sunroof.  There are drains that are attached to the pan under the sunroof and two of these go down the C pillar into the trunk.  As you can see, these are original and were made in Torino (Turin).

I don't think that even Parker Hall has these stickers in his catalog.