1972 Ferrari 365 GTC/4 or a brownie got a new lease on life…

Wonderful

 

Well done on your endeavor, great project and great car. I will be one month late for the 50th anniversary of mine which should be finished soon and back to my Malta. Mine 16075 was first registered on the 1st of January 1973 picked up from SAVAF Geneve Switzerland of the famous Georges Filippinetti of Scuderia Filippinetti who unfortunately died on May 3 of the same year. Soon I hope she will be celebrating the next 50 years on the road

 

you mean for sure 50 years, not days ago?

 

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Production date: October 1971
Delivery date: Elie Ayache authorized dealer, Beirut Lebanon February 1972.
This early model was 51 years old a few months ago. Took it out for a drive today.... I am sure it will outlast me by MANY years.
Congrats on the birthday of your gorgeous car, Christian.


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Looking spectacular, Christian.

 

Beautiful car and restoration process!!

I don't want to open a "can of worms" with this post, but I think the Fram PH28041 (Fram's replacement for the PH2804-1) oil is not recommended because Fram changed the design to eliminate the standpipe that is necessary to keep oil in the filter when mounted upside down (as they are on Ferraris). The filter still works, but it takes longer to build oil pressure every startup because all of the oil drains out of the filter when the engine is shut off without the standpipe. This 2014 thread shows the differences in the Fram PH2804-1 (with standpipe, but no longer available) and PH28041 (without standpipe): https://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/threads/fram-oil-filter-changes.463579/

 

I have changed mine to UFI ( not nice colour, but they do the job right )

 

Baldwin B253 is the correct oil filter today.

 

Christian,

Thanks for sharing photos of your car here.

I find it very interesting to compare plating colors of suspension/steering & other undercarriage components with same items in the car I'm currently working on.
All I can say at this point that there appear to be a lot of differences & peculiarities, some even almost shocking, like one of the three lower (rear) control A-arm cast arms having different color plating than the other three, but none appear to have ever been disassembled or off the car, let alone re-plated.