"Official 365 GTC/4 pictures" thread ?

Thanks Marcus, although I already got it figured & sorted out and the car is back home (apparently now running better than it has for decades ?), I appreciate your follow up.

 

Thanks for the kind thought, Marcus, but having never attempted to claim or consider myself an "expert" or "specialist" and after a lifetime of observing (& fixing) countless hack jobs by those claimed or considered being such, including several on or mentioned in this forum, I prefer not to be considered or mistaken as one by others either. ;-)

 

Last week.

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Images like these always remind me of a time when a lifelong car guy (with 5+ decades of various Ferrari ownership, etc) doubted my claim* that most, relatively complex post-war (vintage) cars are constructed of over 100.000 individual parts/pieces …
Mind you that the pictured Weber is far from fully disassembled and there are five more of every item in a single C/4 …
… and imagine how many other parts/pieces are between each of the two banks of three of them ?
And that’s just the engine.

*That assessment was offered to me by a another friend who had worked at an assembly plant for one of American big three manufacturers back in the 1960s/1970s and was told so during one of their training seminars.

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I apologize for non-C/4 content, but here’s an interesting (at least to me) comparison to the above 2-bbl Weber carburetor break down image and the amount of parts & pieces of hardware they contain.

This is a mid-1930’s 2-bbl Stromberg I started taking apart this morning in preparation for comprehensive overhaul/rebuild*.
Please note that there are still at least 2-3 dozen pieces that were not disassembled/-connected from each others by the time this photo was taken.

*This carburetor and the engine (289 c.i. V8 by Lycoming) it belongs to has supposedly been completely(?) rebuilt (& dyno tested ?) very recently by a highly regarded specialist/restoration shop to alleged costs approaching six figures, but when I received the car, the list of various, directly involved electrical and fuel related problems, including this “rebuilt”(?) carburetor, not to mention their overall aesthetic appearance is just mind boggling.
I just hope the engine internals are done to better standards and don’t require re-do.

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