Thanks guys! He is looking at some pics of a 1971 Daytona gtb4. It has what appears to be aluminum as the headlight covers and across the front of the nose?? Hard to tell by the pics he sent but it looks that way. Did they all come this way aside from the Euro clear?
Can someone recommend a book??? No, I think there's at least three nose treatments, the Euro (first ) plexi lenses, not legal for US, the Aluminum trim, and then finally, the "plain" treatment for US Cars with flip up lights.
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The aluminum trim you refer to is silver paint acoss the area on popup cars where the plexi cover used to be. This is a early popup car trait. The latest original car I have seen with this treatment is 14159, although here are earlier popup cars with body color in that area. I dont know if this is a Bill Harrahs preference (like wire wheels) but a disproportionate # of silver nose cars seem to have come through MCM.
John the silver paint on the nose and it's period of use is an interesting topic. You mention 14159 as the latest seen with the silver painted nose. I would mention the spider 14383 as an example with the silver nose treatment. This topic came up before and I recall a 14,7XX? car with the paint. I've posted a picture before of a coupe in the low 14,900 serial range also with the nose painted silver. Part of the problem with restored cars is the silver paint is left off; sometimes at the preference of the new owner. Maybe Bill Harrah got a good allocation of Daytona models before the change to a body color nose treatment. The looming oil shortage back then didn't encourage later V12 sales... CH
I should have said that that was the latest that I had seen. With the usual Ferrari consistency, there appears to be silver and body color nose treatments throughout a range of s/n's. As you point out, repaints have clouded the picture, and I know of at least one car that added the silver nose treatment as part of a repaint. I always thought that the silver treatment looked good. Off topic, but on some cars contrasting colors appeared in the blood gooves around this time (including the prototype Spyder 12851 and my 14729) and in the gooves below the deck lid. I doubt that anyone added those later as they diden't look so hot.
The white Daytona spider (ex. Harrah?) had the blood trough painted in red. There was an owner from Lebanon originally; who had a Fly Yellow spider with the blood trough painted black back in the late 70's. Last Daytona spider also had the blood trough paint work; perhaps to compliment the earliest Fly Yellow spider. The contrast paint color combination does stand out in a crowd! CH
Hello Is the fly yellow some daytonas came with the same fly yellow used onlater models such as 355's or 360's or was it a fly yellow specific to daytonas? Thanks Chuck
