This is an outstanding video

http://fliiby.com/file/889633/8lmnzja6xe.html

308's 288's and testarossa's oh my.

I am guessing this video was made in 1984 perhaps early 1985. Anyone have a better guess?

When you are done watching the video, watch it again.

 

WOW! that was just plain awesome, I've seen lots of pics from the 80s but not a video.
Thanks for sharing.

 

Watching the engine casting process makes me think of Medieval alchemists.... SO
different looking in the factory than "modern" car plants filled with robots and uber
bright overhead lights and computers everywhere.

Wouldn't it be awesome to have the serial numbers?

Thanks for posting.

Jedi

 

...from back when you could still get a car straight from the factory with fingerprints on it

 

I love it!

Thank you so much for posting it

 

That was cool. Could have been my TR engine, or my 308 body! Who knows!!!

 

Great to see the birthplace. Anyone have any more videos like this, or videos of 308 reviews etc might be worth posting here.

 

Phenomenal!
Thanks for posting.

 

I just watched the whole thing. It's very good. I wish they had high def cameras back then, lol.

 

Some real smelting going on there. Suits and the guy shaking soda ash over the molten metal...classic.

 

One funny thing is...I remember what video looked like back then, and it wasn't nearly as bad as when they show the same video today. They either 'add' effects to it to increase the sense of nostalgia, or it's all just degraded so much over time...

 

Nothing's degraded over time, it's just the quality of the compressed blocky digital version. It's very very low res. They've done this to get it down to a manageable download size. I'm sure the original print is beautiful and detailed; it looks like it was shot properly in 35mm.

 

Wow, that's definately old-school craftsmanship.

 

What fun! I'm reading "Inside Ferrari" by Michael Dregni and it is full of neat factory/assembly pictures. The video really makes it come to life. Thank you!

 

this is why I majored in Metal Shop and Engineering.......

 

If they can make blu-ray DVD of the old movie like Jaws and Close Encounter of the Third Kind, I'm sure they can make this one at least an HD.

 

blu-ray is HD. Most old movies can look better than DVD quality, there's enough information in most to look better as HD (blu-ray).

I wonder what the original source of this video is?

I notice that the original uploader has a youtube account that got closed for copy infringement by Duke video. Doesn't make it a Duke product, he probably had a lot of other vids on youtube.

 

That was great thanks, never seen a video of that age

 

Yeah, I'd love to know this too. Take the source, convert it properly to digital and it would make for a really cool part of a video collection.

 

YES, VERY NICE.

I downloaded it with Ant until the source file or its location is posted. Then I'll download that over the top of this one.

 

very cool, thanks for that

 

http://www.arabiandrift.com/video/13366/The-Red-Ferrari--making-of-the-1980s%C2%B4-Italian-supercars

I found another version of the video that seems a little bit cleaner.

I had seen this video on youtube a couple of years ago before it got yanked and it took some time to find it again. Not an easy one to find. I wish there was a way to loop this video as my monitors wall paper. I am sure most of you have seen the second video posted below but it is interesting to compare the two now and then aspect.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdcoVurVY30[/ame]

 

My first thought as well. Cool vid!

 

I was curious about the powder mixture that they were throwing into the molten metal and then again with a bag of some sort as they were pouring the molten metal into the cast. Apparently its called parting dust:

What It Does:
Parting dust coats the surface of a pattern so that the molding sand will not stick to it. This allows the pattern to be drawn from the sand and leave a clean, sharp impression behind.

Parting dust also coats the sand mating surfaces of the flask so the top half (the "cope") and the bottom half (the "drag") don't stick together. This allows the halves to be separated and the pattern removed. This separation line is called the "parting line" thus comes the name of this material: "parting dust".

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How To Use It:
Simply load half a cup into an old white sock and you have a handy duster. Apply a fine dusting to parting surfaces of sand mold and patterns. New patterns will benefit from thoroughly applying a coating of parting dust prior to first time use.

Great video!

 

If you don't have an old white sock but rather a new Argyle sock, will it leave a unique pattern?