The Restoration of -1963 Ferrari 250 GTE #4879

Every car deserves to have this treatment, especially 250 GTE's. What an inspiration.

 

Sir, it can not get any better. How did you acquire your skills and craftsmanship? Unbelievable work. Stunning. You are an artist.

 

Simply outstanding.

 

A very cool feature!

Gr. Martin

 

Waaooooww

 

Great work Martin!
Reading this thread was more interesting than watching the Abi Dhabi GP!

David

 

Superb Martin,
Great attention to detail. The car looks magnificent!

 

The condition of this car is unbelievable for having sat for 38 years! Not well-loved recently, either, judging by the dusty exterior. Is there a story you can tell?

 

Martin, it's good that you've gone thru the trouble of making a guard for the air filter mesh. I presume this is to keep the buffer form "burning" it. Is this what you have made this guard for? If so, this mesh is not to be chrome plated, it's unpolished nickle.

john

 

I guess turning it into a barn find, or a garage find, so Tom S can buy it...

 

Lovely to see the craftsmanship and the attention to detail. Well done.

 

Great stuff, I love the color combo.

Thanks for sharing.

 

I bet it will win in your local Estonia concours d elegance

great work

Julius

 

Martin, I have seen chromed air boxes in other instances and in fact mine was entirely chromed too when I got the car a number of years ago. The correct look is not shiny but "brushed" and it needs to have that yellowish glow of nickle. It is possible that when they chromed yours in the past, they wiped away the characteristic "brush" marks during buffing, so even if you nickle plate it today it will end up shinier than it needs to be. I'd suggest that before sending it off you put back those brush marks in the screen portion of the box with sand paper.

john
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1) wrinkle black
2) servofreno. Have never seen black booster. Should be clear cad.
3) Baroclem

Also, booster bleeder screws are black oxide and the rocker trim strip should be satin black. Great work Martin.

 

Martin,
I would think those larger size tyres would hit the inside rear wheel well. I recall getting my car with those sizes on and it was not good. I switched to the original size Pirelli 185 /15 cinturato.

Steve

 

He did mention wanting the correct tires for Christmas.

 

Do you feel that polishing is enough. As a matter of fact I sent mine to Borrani for restoration and they sis thematically change all the spokes,,not only some become lose and corroded with time, but I would not like to have one or more spoke collapsing under heavy cornering or braking?
For the same reason I am running the Stratos on repro magnesium wheels as those alloys are well know for disintegrating without warning. Would feel the same with Campagnolo alloys on 275 SN cosmetic and even crack testing might not be enough with 50 years old alloy wheels.

 

Martin,
My series II wheels are RW3690 15 x 6.00. I didn't realize that the series III had a different size wheel.
regards,
Steve