330GT 2+2 Series I Parts WANTED

Pete,

I suspect that it's been destroyed and lost forever. Even if I did manage to get hold of the original bent section of 6727 chassis, it may no longer contain the id number.

Unfortunately this is still "happening" everywhere, it never really stopped. As long as there is a market and money to be made it will continue. On my travels sourcing parts I have seen chassis new and old stacked high awaiting new id's and recreation bodies. I have even been offered just id's to buy.

 

I have spent a lot of time looking for parts, so when I came across some sill trim strips I couldn’t turn them down, even though they were badly bent scratched and dented. The stainless steel trims are held on at each end with a clip that has an M6 stud. These are mild steel so inside a stainless water and dirt trap just rot away. I had out of 4, only 1 complete clip, 1 missing and the other 2 in a very bad way. Since I couldn’t find a source for these clips and the dealers who could supply were out of stock or made to order in batches of 100, I thought I’d make some today in my shed. I chose Stainless Steel 2mm plate and stud so that they would never rust out again. They turned out far better than the originals or replacement mild steel would have ever been.



The trim strips themselves were in a bad way, stone dented on the underside, badly scratched where it looked like someone had used a grinder on the cars bodywork and slipped over them in two places and scratched where shoes etc had caught them over the years. Two and a bit weeks later I have beaten all the dents out from behind, straightened the twists and bends and starting with a smooth file, 180 grit on thru 1200 grit wet and dry, they look like new!


So if anyone is thinking of throwing out any old, bent, rotten, mangled or damaged parts, out with the trash when you put nice new shiny replacement on your car (no matter what part it is) please, please let me know as I could possibly make use of it.

Thanks.

 

Thanks Peter, but no thanks.

This shell has been on an ebay carousel for a long while now.
Such a shame, yet another example of a butchered 330GT 2+2 series 1

 

Thanks for the kind words Vincent,

I have a number of pictures waiting to upload, just waiting for the right time. You'll certainly get the wow factor when you see the progress. The more you restore cars, the more you appreciate them, and the more I seem to stand and stare in awe of them, instead of getting on with what I should be doing!

Pm sent Tom re: burnt out series II

I fear it may just end up as a chassis/id doner for a recreation, but there are several parts that I can see in the pictures that would be useful for me.

 

The last few days I have been in my shed after work each evening fettling the door weather-strips I bought to replace the missing ones on 6727. They were pretty bad with dents, scratches and grinder marks where someone carelessly slipped when working on the door. They told a great story, grey primer, gunmetal silver, gallo fly yellow and the obligatory rosso paint was discovered on the undersides. After a bit of work I have dressed out the damage and got them presentable ready to go onto the doors when the shell is repainted.
So my question is…..

Where can I buy the small rubber seals that sit in the stainless trims to seal the wind down windows at their base, mine are completely perished?

I have looked on several sites but can only find the whole trims including the stainless part and not just the rubber strips. They have a peculiar cross section that I cannot find a match for at other independent trim suppliers.

Can anyone help with a supplier?

Many thanks
Darren

 

Sorry Cory, I POINT BLANK refuse to use Mr Fiat.

Besides they don't manufacture anything, just buy it in. I'd be grateful if anyone has another idea.

 

Thanks Mark, much appreciated. I've emailed them as the list and description is not clear as to which seal it is. I presume its "window scrapper" but they have several listed?

That said it should be a very useful supplier.

Jim,

I'd appreciate any 330 parts you may have. My car has full blade bumpers with no overiders. The ones I have acquired look like they fell off a car in the fast lane of a highway and all the following vehicles ran over them before they got trapped around a prop shaft of a large truck which pulled over, untangled the mess and threw them in the gutter.
Suffice to say they need a "little" work!

 

Over the last few evenings I've been cleaning up some of the stainless steel trims from around the door openings and rear quarter windows. I've got parts from several cars to make up a missing set for 6727.

My question is....

Many of the parts from different 330's have what looks like window putty on the rear where they fit against the shell. Some have a lot maybe 1/4" thick in places others just a small amount.

Did they use window putty at the factory behind the trims?

 

Thanks Pete.

Update on door seals; identified and ordered.

New task....the grille

The grille I have found is in pretty bad shape. I’d like to say I started to take it apart for restoration, but the truth is it fell apart!

I intend to restore it but since I haven’t access to another 330 I have some questions that I cannot find answers to by searching photos on the internet.

1. The grille had a mix of slotted dome head screws with captive sping/clip nuts, cross head self tappers and pop rivets, holding the vane assembly together.
Which is the correct fixing?
2. I have a badly damaged large Stainless bezel surround that holds the vane assembly, it has numerous tabs with holes to hold in the aluminium vanes. The two parts I have are from different cars so what is the fixing? Rivets, nuts & bolts, screws?
3. When the complete assembly is fitted to the front of the car (there are countersunk holes stamped in the bezel) what holds it in? Slot or cross headed bolts?
4. I presume the original finish to the vanes was anodised silver aluminium, not black as it has been?

Unfortunately the grille bezel I found (not shown in pictures below) must have come from a car that had a good smack as its badly bent, some previous idiot has drilled extra holes, besides the counter sunk original fixings to hold it into the front of a car and back into shape. The drill bit has danced all over it and there are terrible snail trail trenches in it. To make matters worse they then put in over size self tappers which have torn up these extra holes. Why oh why didn’t they just take it off and straighten it instead of butchering it. I’ve gotta weld up these holes and deep scratches, then straighten it all up and polish out before it can go anywhere near the car. It’s such an iconic part of a Ferrari, I want to get it just right.

 

Thanks Steve, several people had mentioned his name, but no one until now had given me a link to his site, so I was in the dark. Thanks for this.

The grille he's made is not the same as my battered original (Tom's has semi-circular bent bases to the vane uprights?) I'm totally confused now.

Can any 330GT owner post me some close up pictures of their grille so I can see whats correct and how all the parts are held together.

Thanks