Dennison Visit 11/11/20

My friend George is selling his PF Coupe and asked if I could use some of his old/extra parts.  So I went over to where he had been keeping the car and picked up several boxes.  Among other parts was his old original set of luggage belts.  The ones I had weren't necessarily from a PF Coupe, so I took George's down to make sure that they made the new ones correctly with the right buckles, etc.

In particular, there was a Fiat brake fluid reservoir.  I had supplied a Vicar that came with the car, but Dennison, after looking at a bunch of pictures, decided that the flat topped Fiat one should be on the car.  Ferrari simply painted over the Fiat logo on the top in black before using them.

   

They are making good progress on the car. The brake system is almost complete and all of the calipers, hoses and lines have been pressure tested.  I did have the front booster rebuilt and installed.  These are problematic and some shops gut the interior so it just acts like a T to each front caliper.

           

As they were putting on the rain gutter trim, they realized that the painter had been told to not paint the gutter.  However, the trim doesn't cover it completely, so the gutter will have to be painted.

Electrically, all of the parts are being tested before being installed.  The wiper motor had to be taken apart to fix a short and replace a rivet what was loose.  The heater fan and box assembly has been installed, along with the hand brake assembly and cabling.

The rubber hood pads that were on the car were cut on one side so they hung over the lip.  They thought that looked hokey, so installed them whole.  Afterwards, they looked at pictures of other PF Coupes and decided that having them cut was correct, so they have to come out and be cut and re-mounted.

One of the other reasons to go down was to pick the carpet color.  Henk from HVL hasn't told us the original carpet color, so in the meantime, I picked a dark tan, 705 in the picture.

However, I just reviewed all of the pictures that were taken when Dennison got the car.  In particular, a small piece of original carpet was stuck under the wood frame for the luggage shelf in the rear.  So I'm going see if they have that piece and perhaps revisit the color.

   

Butch has been working on getting the sun roof assembled and working.  This is a steel sliding panel that lowers as it slides back under the roof.  The black portion is a watertight tub with drains.  So the sunroof, unlike modern ones, is not sealed to the body when closed.  Instead the water drains into the tub and out through hoses threaded in the C pillars into the trunk and out the corners.  The inside trim is attached to an aluminum panel and finished with the surround in the right picture.

       

The teak for the dash has arrived.  The dash is temporarily in the car to check for fit.

   

They were getting ready to install the radiator blind to the radiator when they noticed that the radiator shop had put the top mounts in the wrong places.  There is a mount on each side and one in the middle to hold the cabling for the blind.  However, the one for the blind got put on the right instead of the middle.  So they have to be unsoldered, re-soldered in the correct places and that portion re-painted.

The fuel tank, rear filter and electric pump are installed.  Notice the proper vent line.

   

It got an email later that day saying that the new windshields had arrived just after I left.  I purchased a spare as the major cost is the crating, shipping and bending form production.  As you can see, the crating is well made to make sure that the glass survives the shipping.