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... well more of a video actually.
There's no audio, but you'll doubtless be able to gain a telling insight as to how Maranello built cars getting on for 50 years ago.
Small wonder the cars became renowned for their poor build quality (and propensity to rust) it's probably best to avert your eyes between 20.00 and 21.27 if you wish to avoid the grim reality of "handbuilt and finished by skilled, Italian, artisan coachbuilders" (nice masking paper being used at 21.20 by the way !!)
Hopefully it's not a re-post. I hope you enjoy 25 minutes looking into a very different (some may say better) bygone age :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-AYm7hcD68&fe...
Oh, and lookout for the brief glimpse of the great man himself leaving the Cavallino
There's no audio, but you'll doubtless be able to gain a telling insight as to how Maranello built cars getting on for 50 years ago.
Small wonder the cars became renowned for their poor build quality (and propensity to rust) it's probably best to avert your eyes between 20.00 and 21.27 if you wish to avoid the grim reality of "handbuilt and finished by skilled, Italian, artisan coachbuilders" (nice masking paper being used at 21.20 by the way !!)
Hopefully it's not a re-post. I hope you enjoy 25 minutes looking into a very different (some may say better) bygone age :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-AYm7hcD68&fe...
Oh, and lookout for the brief glimpse of the great man himself leaving the Cavallino
Edited by Slippydiff on Monday 20th April 17:18
browngt3 said:
Would still love a carb 365 BB though!
The 365 BB was never fuel injected, that was only fitted to the later 512's I'll have a 512 please, not fussy, can be injected or carburettor, if I could have it in black please too, that would be pretty much perfect !!
If I could have it with some slightly wider rims that would be even better still ...
Actually, I think I'd prefer red over black if we're going with wider rims ...
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browngt3 said:
Harry Metcalfe in his latest video says the 512 BB is disappointing to drive, the Testarossa being a vast improvement. He also doesn't like the F40, finding it frustrating on the road.
I'm still early in my Ferrari adventure, so yet to drive any of them. F40 a bit out of my league though
Harry's probably right, but the 365 and 512 BB are far, far easier on the eye ...I'm still early in my Ferrari adventure, so yet to drive any of them. F40 a bit out of my league though
Harry's views are interesting, that's not to say they're right or wrong, just interesting. he raved (and I mean raved) about the Audi UK's SWB Quattro Sport he borrowed for a few days fairly recently ;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SRTehcxjIg
I drove one many years ago, and I can honestly say, it's one of, if not THE most disappointing, overrated cars I've ever driven.
johnnyreggae said:
Thanks: love the pile of old race car bonnets (312PB I think) at about minute 7
Indeed, the 312PB was retired at the end of '73 apparently, so it's been suggested the film was shot late in the Spring of '74, the 308 GT4 having been launched at the Paris Motor Show in Nov '73, and judging by the numbers seen in the film, production was well underway by the time the film was shot. Good to see they used really good, sturdy transit crates to ship those GT4's in 
I assume most have seen this film ? I bought the original VHS copy of it new some 35 years ago ...
Ten years on (this on the basis they were producing the 288 GT0) from the previous film, Maranello must have seemed more akin to NASA for those working there, especially when compared to the chaotic scenes filmed back in '74 !!
Enjoy :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRHAQz2NWNU
Ten years on (this on the basis they were producing the 288 GT0) from the previous film, Maranello must have seemed more akin to NASA for those working there, especially when compared to the chaotic scenes filmed back in '74 !!
Enjoy :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRHAQz2NWNU
browngt3 said:
Another fascinating watch Slippy. No I haven't seen it before. Its a complete transformation in 10 years, there's even a robot paint sprayer! Ferrari started to employ real QC policies by 1982 learned from the Japanese. Discovered this last night on reading an old Ferrari magazine from 1986 prompted after watching your video Also a big piece in their about the foundry. I'm delighted to discover that, although still hand made, my recently acquired QV was constructed with a bit more deference to quality, lol!
Glad you enjoyed it. Also a big piece in their about the foundry. I'm delighted to discover that, although still hand made, my recently acquired QV was constructed with a bit more deference to quality, lol! I used to own a brass and bronze, sand and investment casting foundry, so the video always made interesting viewing. If you're able to scan the article about the foundry in the Ferrari mag, and either email it to me, or post it up here in this thread, it would be much appreciated
Well no doubting the quality had improved (not difficult !!) though I noticed one line worker slapping what I imagine to be black paint on the underside of a 308/288 GTO chassis on the production line, I thought he was probably touching a scratch or chip up, but then in the next shot another worker was welding the front suspension pickup points on a 308 chassis, so maybe they'd got a bunch of chassis that needed revisions, and they did them during the build process on the line rather than "out in the yard somewhere", as they'd done 10 years previously ... ??
browngt3 said:
I will try and scan them at my office tomorrow. All 10 pages of it. Can you imagine a car mag now, devoting 10 pages to a foundry, even if it is Ferrari! It was a special on Ferrari by Grand Prix International. Not a mainstream publication even back then
it'd be much appreciated if you could browngt3 said:
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