"Official 365 GTC/4 pictures" thread ?

Probably you can upload it on You Tube and just post the link here.

 

Thanks, Marcus. We'll be in Malta the entire month of November..... hope to see you and have a Cisk Lager or two.

https://youtube.com/shorts/HmNl-C-Q2wA

 

Sure, will be on the Island at that time

 

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Thanks Marcus, although I already got it figured & sorted out and the car is back home (apparently now running better than it has for decades ?), I appreciate your follow up.

 

Don't they always after passing through the garage of a real specialist. ;-)

 

Thanks for the kind thought, Marcus, but having never attempted to claim or consider myself an "expert" or "specialist" and after a lifetime of observing (& fixing) countless hack jobs by those claimed or considered being such, including several on or mentioned in this forum, I prefer not to be considered or mistaken as one by others either. ;-)

 

Last week.

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Mixed group with a 1964 Pontiac Grand Prix and a 1968 Dodge Charger stage left. Thank you for sharing.

 

I like Chargers, especially the black ones (and no, I don't mean an EV battery charger).

Marcel Massini

 

Will be here in Malta until Dec 5th.
Give me call if you want to share a Cisk or two. We have a place in Valletta on Melita st. not far from the center of town. I can meet you just about anywhere.
Can't seem to PM you.

Kind regards
Mike
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#16153.

 

Rossa Nearco?

 

Apparently so-looked fabulous

 

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Images like these always remind me of a time when a lifelong car guy (with 5+ decades of various Ferrari ownership, etc) doubted my claim* that most, relatively complex post-war (vintage) cars are constructed of over 100.000 individual parts/pieces …
Mind you that the pictured Weber is far from fully disassembled and there are five more of every item in a single C/4 …
… and imagine how many other parts/pieces are between each of the two banks of three of them ?
And that’s just the engine.

*That assessment was offered to me by a another friend who had worked at an assembly plant for one of American big three manufacturers back in the 1960s/1970s and was told so during one of their training seminars.

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I apologize for non-C/4 content, but here’s an interesting (at least to me) comparison to the above 2-bbl Weber carburetor break down image and the amount of parts & pieces of hardware they contain.

This is a mid-1930’s 2-bbl Stromberg I started taking apart this morning in preparation for comprehensive overhaul/rebuild*.
Please note that there are still at least 2-3 dozen pieces that were not disassembled/-connected from each others by the time this photo was taken.

*This carburetor and the engine (289 c.i. V8 by Lycoming) it belongs to has supposedly been completely(?) rebuilt (& dyno tested ?) very recently by a highly regarded specialist/restoration shop to alleged costs approaching six figures, but when I received the car, the list of various, directly involved electrical and fuel related problems, including this “rebuilt”(?) carburetor, not to mention their overall aesthetic appearance is just mind boggling.
I just hope the engine internals are done to better standards and don’t require re-do.

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