Hey guys, Curiosity here. Saw these on a euro car posted online and was wondering if anyone knows where/how they connect and what they are for. My assumption is cabin air flow but I have 0 idea. My car us with my mechanic but I'm nearly positive mine doesn't have these (series 1 us car) Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
My series 1 US car does not have them. Image Unavailable, Please Login Sent from my iPhone using FerrariChat
Just cabin ventilation I believe. 911s had them through into the ‘80’s. Sent from my iPhone using FerrariChat
My question is where they hook up in the interior. In the 993s and the like that had this they had internal vents behind the rear seats iirc. I cant picture where these would hook up in a gt4
Realy interesting (just Google the thread title yall, its on a competitor site). So its not early cars only, but does seem to be only euros (but not all euro)
I wonder if the idea was that the pleats in the headlining created small gaps around the cover above the rear window, to allow cabin air to reach the vents? Then Ferrari discovered it didn't really work, and so dropped the idea?
Hey now! It's more watter tight than my miata. Granted, that one doesn't have a roof, but still! It's not that bad!
That..... honestly feels way too complex for ferrari in the 70s if I'm honest. I'm more inclined to believe they got a shipment of bodies that had them and just couldn't be bothered to send them back than I am that they thought they woukd get airflow through the headliner stitching...
The styling clay had far more slots in, you would not do it if required as it adds tooling complexity piercing these.
+1 The original clay model had 10 slots. They were an originally planned design feature - Not a manufacturing error: https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&t=1747385 (Scroll down to the bottom of page 1)
It seems Bertone had a thing for rear roof vents - The 308 GT4's Lamborghini cousin, the Urraco, also got roof vents: https://en.classicpark.com/car/477/lamborghini-urraco
Yes instead of making front vent windows that opened or redirecting the front radiator grill heat they made some slots. The car is really really hot inside over 72 deg F
