The Ferrari Bloodline

Tuesday:
A full day starting at 8.30 at Maranello UK ‘detailing the unobvious’ - like freshening all leather strips and buckles. Of course you need to start with a car which was originally in a very good condition.
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Also going around ‘shaving’ the Alcantara.
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Remember that there are numerous F50s to do…

 

Wednesday:

More tonneau(s) to clean from outside (machine polish and then Swissvax) and inside (cleaning the heat shield material and gluing any loose foam)
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Friday:

While some were enjoying Miami RM auction and focusing on prices and bids, others were ploughing forward with another bit of improvement. We focused on the boot of the cars.
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Then a final polish for each car.

 

I blush and bow to all of you…

 

Today was a full day tending to the yellow F50.
Doing some shining here and there
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Polishing some boot parts
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And giving attention to some leather parts
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Cont’d
At 6am I texted my detailer about the dozen or so things we will do and to bring the products and tools for those. Then before leaving home at 7.30, I remembered one more thing which had to be done: it was to bring scissors to cut the extra stitching thread that you find sticking out of the seatbelts
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Also checked the correct supplier’s (AlliedSignal) orange tag with the Ferrari logo at the very bottom
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There was not much we could add to the engine bay
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And finally some overall pictures at the end of a long but satisfying day
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Note, in the last picture, the chair that I used every few hours to rest on and watch (with a warm cup of tea) the magnificent masterpiece that Ferrari and Pininfarina produced.

 

I guess your red F50 is also a beauty (I hope you are still holding to it).

 

You are right about Pininfarina.
As to your question, you should not even ask it!

 

Well today was one more, and hopefully the last for a long period, effort focusing on silencers and one red car in general. After that it is vacation-time (on that front) for the rest of ‘25.

We started with silencers. The aim was cleaning original silencers. This was as opposed to a mistake I did a couple of years earlier of re-coating/ painting a couple of them - it was the only non-original part of the car(s) and it left me always very unsettled when I opened the engine bay and looked at them.

So here are a couple as a starting point and another after many hours of careful attention
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That is the best we can achieve, but at least it’s the real silencers without any re-coating or other authenticity-destroying processes applied.

Then we got to the boot of the very-low mileage car with machine polishing and waxing. The result on the carbon was quite stunning
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Cont’d.
Then I polished 12 hub nuts.
On one side (the passenger’s) there is an ‘S’ engraved on each hub nut and on the other side (the driver’s) there is a ‘D’ engraved. Note also on the very low-mileage car (so on a couple of pictures) how clean and unused the hub nuts look (almost no wheels removal during its life-time).
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Then, it was cleaning the tonneau residing in its flight box for a couple of decades.
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Annand, I am sure when they left the factory the cars must have been stunning.
Just trying to bring back their original glory. May be for some bit (e.g. some of the removable carbon parts in the boot), the original factory employee did not have the time to really polish the carbon fibre to its maximum level, so we push it here with patience and tenacity…

 

I can see ‘S6N1’ engraved on the ‘S’ side (passenger side) on a couple of pics of different wheels I have. I presume it’s from the same car.
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I will check for you next time I visit the cars for specific pattern/reference.