This car appeared to have 3 different paint jobs, yellow (original), red (repaint) and black. It had never been taken down to bare metal only bondoed over. The rust was in damaged areas that were never fixed correctly. Like they say, paint can hide a multitude of sins. This car is on it’s way to being better than new.

I’ve been a little busy lately, but work is progressing. I started sorting and cleaning engine parts and ordering various new parts. The body is moving along at a better pace then my work. All the metal work is done and the resurfacing has started.

Some more metal work over the past few days.

The metal work is progressing, replacing any rusted areas with new metal. The metal work should be done this week then on to the body. I was in New Mexico this week collecting on a judgement. I got a Ferrari 275GTB/C. one of 12 alloy bodied competition models. Pristine condition with 12,000 original miles. Also a Porsche 917-30, P-51 airplane and an assortment of vintage motorcycles. I had Cavallo motorsports here in San Diego go to New Mexico to pick it up. All but the plane arrived last night.

The car left today for metal work, body and paint. The car is in Costa Mesa at a very small shop and will be there for the next 3 or 4 months. I still haven’t chosen a color and go back and forth on several colors. I did a spray out in Celeste and considered this because of it rarity on a Dino. It is similar to Azzuro except it has a touch of green and a little lighter. Also Viola and Grigio Ferro are considerations amongst some others. HELP!!!!

Looks like I’m the same point as Tom C. The body is back from the blaster primed with DP90. It’s going to need a little metal work, but overall not bad. Also been stripping the fiberglass of all the undercoating. That’s the worst job of the whole project.

The body is at the blasters and almost done. I checked it out today and there aren’t to many warts. It’s had some damage to the drivers door and the rest minor stuff. we decided to do the engine first so we started taking it apart. We were going to split the gearbox but I was MISSING the special socket to undo the nuts on the gears at the end of the bell housing, so we just took off what we could get to. For fun we set up a video camera and we are doing a time lapse video of taking the engine apart.

The car is completely stripped now. We stripped the doors today which I think is the hardest part of the whole car. I had never removed the doorglass from a coupe so i wasn’t exactly sure how to get it out. It is way more difficult than a GTS. I’m not sure if I did it exactly right, but everything is out. I’m sure I’ll be asking questions when I have to reassemble in a year or two. I took step by step pictures so if anyone knows an easier way to remove the glass please chime in.