Potential ‘58 Testa Rossa Trunk Lid?

You've mentioned that you couldn't find any stampings and could use guidance on where to look if there should be any.

It might also help to verify the authenticity by reporting the physical dimensions of key features. E.g. Length and width of the whole trunk lid, length and width and height of the hump, length and width of the flap opening, thickness of the sheet metal, etc.

 

Just a note to the new member….Welcome to the forum and don’t take Yin’s signature line personally.

 

It sure looks authentic to me.

 

I wrote you a PM.
Regards,
Alberto

 

Once you have determined whether you have an authentic Testa Rosa trunk lid or not, will you be posting it for sale?

Thank you,
Richard

 

Where are the blind rivets along the head rest / fuel cap ?

 

Body parts were marked on the inside to fit a certain chassis
Body part X made for chassis Y
Body part X will not fit chassis Z or needs modifications to fit Z

Testa Rossa LHD, you need to find photos where the head rest with filler cap was not riveted on. Period photos not when restored as some cars are wrong today.

 

The TR58 in Ralph Lauren’s collection is 100% original parts. The ex-Frederick Gibbs car purchased right off the Chinetti stand at the New York Auto show. It’s been repainted a few times but little else done to it
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Never raced at all which means it does not have a race history of course but 0734 TR is by far the most original 250 Testa Rossa because of it. There is another that is claimed to be the most original but it's dealer' incorrectness.

250 TRs I have seen have the head rest/fairing clearly riveted to the trunk lid through a lip surrounding the base of the head rest.

Just my 2Ps worth.

 

I looked after #0734 for two years and have hundreds of photos somewhere. I’ll look for the rivets.

 

I thought you might have done for Mr PPP.

Please do.

 

There was never such a thing as a bad day when that car was around. Many times I took it for a long drive through the countryside.
Yes P3 owned until Stanley Nowak purchased it on behalf of Ralph for $750k. At the time I thought he was nuts.

 

Well the easy part is, who was the collector in Washington state….

 

miurasv - your constant deletion & reposting, apparently to achieve a post free of edit tags, actually looks like this to some of us.

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In fact drawing even more attention to your edits.

 

Correct! And nothing against the rules.

 

Don't really care about the wall art (my guess is it's from another type of car). I do love the dog in the early shots!