350/400GT thread

Fred, i think i got this from VLG. Any info on date? other photos of this type?
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Looks like all three seals - GN-02186, GN-02192, and GN-02233 can be replaced with disturbing the clearances.
The axle flange seals appear the same as Miura.
Has anyone resealed a 2+2 or Islero diff lately that can share some insight?
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Looks like all three seals - GN-02186, GN-02192, and GN-02233 can be replaced without disturbing the clearances.
The axle flange seals appear the same as Miura.
Has anyone resealed a 2+2 or Islero diff lately that can share some insight?

 

This must be the same shot -- si?

http://www.400gt.com/misc/400_miura_engines.jpg

The other shot I have like that is of the 350 motor:

http://www.400gt.com/misc/350_1965_engine.jpg

I'm pretty sure both of these are original factory photos that Marcel De Lange dug up 10 years ago or so.

Fred

 

si

 

then this 118 car proves that RICKO was right when they did their scale model
regarding the rear wheel arches
here's my own scale model
http://www.flickr.com/photos/martin_miura/4217799334/

Any other pic of 118 ?
Please
I'd love to prove wrong some die cast models "experts"
http://www.400gt.com/misc/350cover.jpg

 

It's funny what happened...

The factory gave Ricko the info on 118, which had round arches at the time, as it sat in the factory museum.

Then Ricko made the model.

Then as Ricko was making the model, the factory restored 118, and found out that the round rear arches were "owner modified" (they found the original bent-over sheet metal inside the fender) and changed it back to the squared-off arches.

So the factory kind of left Ricko out to dry.

I'd say the model is correct, as per the owner-modified #118, which has been featured a number of times with the round rear arches.

It's a tricky one

Fred

 

Back in 1965, VIN #0118 hadn't the round arches as this pic shows...
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Sure it is funny and tricky

anyway ...

any more pics with the round wheels arches please .

as it is rare by now

 

Hi Olivier -- that car has had quite a life! Amazing

Fred

 

If you are involved with Lamborghini shop work, i finished posting the special tools book. Hopefully this will make future vintage Lamborghini work a little easier! Thanks to Paul Santoni
Please see - http://www.miuraworkshop.com/
Merry Christmas
Craig
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You are the man Craig. Hello from San Diego.

Alberto

 

Awesome and so interesting...

 

Fred, Jack, John, and all - these are the trunk panel knobs for a GT400 2+2. I have one and need 5 more, but more important ...i need the details around the grommet in trunk panels please! The three largest, quickly removable trunk panel sides appear to be masonite maybe 4mm thick with speckled grey carpet glue to them, vinyl edging , leather pull tab, grommets pressed in to match these knobs? There are 6 welded studs (5x0,8) around the trunk upper edges to utilize the 6 knobs shown dimensioned below. I see remnants of hinges at the battery panel (right side). Was the battery panel not removable only hinged? The trunk floor appears black vinyl covered? The tire round cover is it masonite as well? Need details please.
Thanks
Craig
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Anyone know this car? "350GT 2+2" !?
http://www.klassiekergespot.nl/viewimages.php?id=1214748364825122010111937

 

The rear fuel trap & rear window are definitively 400 GT 2+2, may be it is just a logo mistake ?

 

Beside the logo there are at least two other odd features on this car.

1. no glass around the headlights
2. side markers with a strange shape and missing the glass cover

 

It looks like a regular 400GT 2+2 to me, with the wrong badge.

It's missing the chrome rings around the headlights, and the side markers are wrong.

But it's jacked up just like a 400GT 2+2 (they did that to keep the ride level with 2 passengers in the rear -- as far as I can tell) and the rear window and single gas filler is a dead giveaway.

400GT 2+2.

Single wiper car, just like mine, which doesn't mean anything because mine was a Kaplin car (NYC)

Just another nice 400GT 2+2 with a bunch of things wrong with it!

Fred

 

Chrome rings and side markers are easily fixed but what surprises me is that it seems to be an one finger lowbody car. That could of course have been fixed as well, the wheel arches look a bit odd, they are missing the curved angles behind the wheels. Interesting to know the vin#.

Happy New Year!

Lars-Erik

 

...I'm also noticing the front fender arch, to be a low one as I already demonstrated in another previous post... so this fact is linked to 350 GT. What a confusing or a mix of 350 & 400... yes which VIN # is it ?

 

Could it be a 400GT 2+2 prototype based on a 350GT? Looks like it has Barcelona license plate

 

I will not say a prototype... as it could be also a wrecked 400 GT 2+2 repaired with 350 front fenders... or it could be the missing link in between 350 to 400... definitively its VIN will be very helpfull

 

What surprises me the most is the "350GT 2+2" badge itself. Is it some kind of oddity or is it a homemade script?

 

As far as the front wheel arches are concerned, I think maybe they just modified them, maybe smoothed them out, creating a larger arch, and less room at the top.

To me the body is clearly 400GT 2+2, it has the "fullness" of a 2+2, and not the "flatness" of a 350.

that's my opinion, fwiw!

Fred

 

Not sure if this has been posted before, 01267 400GT Spyder conversion to be auctioned:
http://www.rmauctions.com/FeatureCars.cfm?SaleCode=AZ11&CarID=r129&fc=0