Kerry's 330 GT Restoration
During the years that the Ferrari was sitting in the garage, I did keep accumulating missing parts. However, many parts just weren't available any more. So I ended up making a number of those.
One set of parts that I was never able to find was the escutcheons that fit between the bumpers and the body. There is a whole story on making these that was in the Prancing Horse issue 136. You can also read it here.
The car was also missing one the the stainless steel strips used to cover the wing window post. I finally located one but it came with the whole wing window frame and the person wasn't willing to sell just the strip. However, I worked for Microsoft and it was just after Windows 95 came out so I traded a copy for the frame and strip.
The previous owner had driven the car on a street that was under construction and hit the right rear muffler on a raised manhole cover. This flipped the rear muffler up into the gas tank, thus puncturing it. It also stretched the whole right side exhaust out so the collector pipe rested against the frame. I had replaced that whole side when I worked on the car initially, but never got around to replacing the left side. As it wasn't a stock exhaust, I wanted to replace it with an ANSA stock system. Finding a left hand set in the states was impossible. However, on a vacation in England, we stopped by Maranello Concessionaires to see what parts they might have that I could use. Click here for the story of buying parts in England.
I did manage to get one hood bumper from Dennis McCann, but he only had the one. So I proceeded to make a second one. Click here for that story.
The car was also missing the heat shields that are mounted on top of the muffler and over the starter. Click here for those stories.
The car didn't have backup lights when I got it. I managed to buy the correct lights back in the early 80s, but didn't have the brackets to mount them to the bumper. Click here to read about making them.
I had broken off the headlight switch stalk. The whole replacement switch assembly was over $500, so I took it apart to repair it. Here's the story about that adventure.