Looking for show stand photos of 275GTB pininfarina 06437

Am I correct to assume that means PF component construction and methods were more like all other large-scale car manufactures at the time, using more machinery and less hand-fabrication/-forming ?

 

Much more experienced, more expensive as well, whereas Scaglietti was quick and dirty, and cheap(er).
Think about all the details, fitting, panel gaps, chrome details, etc.

Marcel Massini

 

I think an example of this is to compare the 365 GTB/4 to the 365 GTC/4. Sister cars but one was "built" better than the other.

 

Your comment reminds me of the oft-posted picture of the Dino and Daytona bodies sitting outside in the yard [at Scaglietti?] awaiting trucking to the factory for the build. I wonder if rust started forming before the bodies will mounted on the frame.

 

Right.

Marcel Massini

 

"Cheap Russian steel" was one of the comments attached to those Ferrari body pictures as I recall.

 

Again, while I personally wasn’t there at the time when they were taken, but based on what I’ve heard or read, I’ve always been under the impression that those photos represent a moment in time when Scaglietti was either building or moving to new, larger facilities better suited for increased demands of production and those example cars in the photos were simply stored outdoors during transition or transportation. Whether they were left outdoors for few hours, days, weeks or longer has never been clear to me.

Also, if I have understood correctly, “factory” didn’t “build”, per se, the production cars at that time yet, but merely installed some or most of the mechanicals (and perhaps electricals ?) and majority of the construction, including coach work, interior and perhaps their final assembly was carried out by others, namely PF and Scaglietti.

As for structural construction of various models, I can still recall moments 10-15 years ago, when looking at a fairly thoroughly disassembled 550 GTB and noticing its structural construction featuring surprisingly many similarities with those I’ve seen in 365 GTB/4s.

 

Timo:

1. In the late 1960s, Italy entered into a series of trade agreements with the Soviet Union under which the Italians agreed to supply the Russians with industrial technology, primarily how to construct and run automobile factories. This was mainly done by Fiat and resulted in a series of Russian built Fiats over the next number of years. In exchange for the technology, the Russians provided Italy with steel. Most, if not all of the steel was adulterated and this is the source of the rust prone Italian cars of the late 1960s and 1970s.

2. In the Daytona era, the bodies arrived from both Pininfarina and Scaglietti completely assembled, painted and fully wired and trimmed. Ferrari installed the mechanicals and did ALL the remaining construction of the automobile.

3. As for the numerous bodies seen setting outside in photos during this period. Much of this was the result of massive amount of strikes by the communist workers unions at this time. Industrial planning and production was literally chaos for most Italian companies during this period. Ferrari did what they could, but completed bodies did set and rust in the sun and rain for weeks, if not months.

 

Dyke,
Thank you very much for these clarifications.

 

Chaos in Italy????? Can't imagine.

 

hahaha
normal situation in italy I would say

 

Great pics, thank you.

Diffuser fences were 25 years ahead of their time and still look modern today.

 

So is the car being restored (re-restored?) from what it was in those 2018 pics?