Hello all, I am looking for a 275 GTB to restore. If anyone knows of a project car out there sitting that needs to be rescued please contact me. I am offering a very generous finders fee for the information. I can also offer to locate any cars you may be looking for. In my search for a 275 I have come across some interesting stuff. Thanks
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Yes, welcome! Subscribe, and we can point you in the direction of some folks who can assist you as well. Are you looking for a shortnose, or a longnose? 4 cams or two? Propshaft or torque tube? Anyway, glad to have you here. Best, -Peter
Unless you can do a lot of it yourself, a project car plus resto costs usually is more expensive the buying one that is already done. 275GTB parts are increasingly unavailable and priced accordingly.
Depending on your willingness to spend-short nose early steel floors with 3 carbs...to torque tube, alloy 6c....for example, can really impact cost of purchase and amount required to commit to a restortation-even if you are a DIYer... Early steel floor cars are, almost always, rusty...RUSTY.... At the other end, torque tube cars-the best cars IMHO, are usually in far better shape, drive MUCH better, but the ante up cost to start is nearly double, as a "done" car is also 2x a shortnose 3carb steel floored version... There is a steel 6c t-tube car in the NE USA...NOT cheap, but would be a GREAT car when done...I had an alloy, 6c, T-Tube 30 years ago, and it remains one of my all time faves(and I had a "/C" as well-a race car, not to easy to drive on the street then...55 and all)....another which slipped through the fingers....but what a great car...interestingly(8831 is around t-tube beginning point?), more alloy than steel bodies as only 20-30 cars built like this near the end, and it appears most were alloy-NOT steel, so a steel tube version is actually a pretty damned rare car... good luck
Personally, I can't see why there is such a wide difference in pricing; the early cars are not THAT bad. In fact, if set up properly, they are just fine. The engine AND trans need to be lined up accurately so the drive-shaft doesn't get destroyed. I have had them all; early, late, 4-cam and "C", and they were all a delight to drive. But the market is the final arbiter, I guess.
Ed, while I don't disagree with you, I am tempering my comments based on the continued decay since these were 5/10yr old cars NOT 40-50 year old cars...and not always having been "done" well... "Restoration" is a word which has, over time, come to mean many different things, to many different people, not at all always the same.... so called Pebble beach winners, when taken down to the rivets in the last several years-despite "winning Pebble" have shown in one specific case, 3 differentt Mercedes Rocker sections used one a single side of the car, a rear clip sectioned onto the floorof a 2+2, then when it was found to be 2-3 inches too long, A NEW DECK LID WAS GRAFTED TOGETHER TO FIT..and this thing "fooled" all of the pundits and "experts"...a real nightmare to "restore" back to a baseline car....(400K , 2.5 yrs, and not done soon...!!!) I've seen 275s with steel rears, alloy noses, or the other way around...possibly both(lots out there know which cars I'm referencing,I think) I think BOTH you and I are remembering cars which,largely,have not existed as such, for decades... most early cars are stricly caveat emptor, plastique floor cars are a huge demarcation in production FOR ME, 6c is a personal performance preference, alloy is nice, but only 200-240LBS difference in truth(as I remeber), torque tubes are just LESS MAINTENANCE and hassle. But, I agree with you, once set up, they drive just fine, after all, both of our "C" models had the "interim" and it was just fine, but that was in the early/mid seventies for me... you and I probably owned more 275s in 3 years, than nearly all posters will have had in their entire lives, and as such, I am merely trying to steer the uninitiated from "projects" and "restorations" which may quickly baloon into the stratosphere and sour the experience as it may likely be their first, hence-only-foray into a 275.. since the ante is now so exhorbitant, i frequently suggest that you either pay up,and get the best one available, or, if yolu must do a project, get the mostest, bestest iteration, so when the eventual repair/restoration overages occur...you are not so totally underwater money wise that you are either in divorce court, or just plain court...exit strategy my fund guys call it... For what its worth....i experienced svage nose lift on "shorties" over 100..scary stuff, NO steering control, zero...so my memory is jaded towards long nose cars as I NEVER experienced that scare in a long nose(3 times was enough to permanently sour me on "shorties", so much so I have not driven one in 25-30 years...) To me they are sort of the "ultimate" 250....:->
Well, of course (being a law-abiding citizen) I have never driven one over the California speed limit...
Is this a statement on the functionality/disfunction of the speedometer? I didn't realize that was a tach not a speedo! Jeff
