LOVE the archival proof of the original interior material!!! What a fantastic historical detail that you have “officially” documented for the judges to review…best of luck!
I have to thank people like Hill Raab, that took the time and made the effort to transpose those ledgers before anyone felt that information was important! Thanks for watching.
Thank you for this video. This is beautiful. This is your subscriber on the West Coast Los Angeles. I’ve been to Pebble Beach concourse, and 2004 and I forgot the other year was that but I’ve been twice and I’ve definitely felt sorry for the owner of the car or the person that was presenting the car of how much ask him that person had to do around, trying to open everything up for the guy or whatever so they can win an award. It happened to us at the time friends with the owner of BLACK HOURSE in Beverly Hills when the guys presented a 1959 super America and they knock off points. Well, I hope this makes sense. I know what you guys are going through when you are trying to win an award at these concourse I’ve seen it before, all in all this car is beautiful
Thank you for illustrating just how difficult this process really is I can't imagine anyone doing a better job,I guess no matter what its still somewhat a subjective judging process.Good luck and thank you sir.
I work with judges all the time refining their rulings. It shouldn’t be subjective, but an open line of communication is important! I often say that I spend months and years correcting hundreds of deductible points while a judge spends 15 minutes to find three points to disqualify a car from winning an award! Thanks for watching.
I love the "gill element" on the fender. It reminds me a lot of the prettiest car our family has ever owned. The Maserati 3500 Granturismo Superleggera. Same area, similar styling, same classiness on this Ferrari and the Maserati of my Grandpa. Miss this Maserati to this day. And this blue is absolutely stunning and classy. Dark blue metallic looks great on every classic GT car. Among all the Ferraris you have featured so far, this might be one of my absolute favourites. Being born in 1960 and being a car nut since my very early childhood, it is not surprising that I am addicted to classy Italian sports cars and finned Beauties from Detroit. I really hope this car gets platinum. It really deserves it.
Yes, the 3500 is very similar in look to this PF Coupe. I may actually prefer the 3500 to the PF Coupe (don't tell anyone)! The color combination on this PF Coupe, however is very nice, and presents well. Let's hope the Judges agree! Thanks for watching.
@@tomyangnet My Grandpa's car was silver metallic like many other 3500 Granturismos. Fun fact: I was to small to remember clearly. But in 1962 my parents and him drove to Modena.There they serviced the car and replaced the four speed ZF with a five gear transmission. That prooved that a Granturismo could bring 4 people on a 800km roundtrip. The other thing was: Can you imagine, back in those days you could actually bring a vehicle to be worked on and serviced at the manufacterer, get a tour of the company and then being brought to test strip with the mechanic that had worked on the car? My Dad said never before or ever after he was as scared as during the test drive. He claimed that they were never on the track with all four wheels and the dirt was shot in the air about twenty feet and most of the time they were racing on the track nearly sideways. He said he was quite sure he was going to die. Then the guy got out of the car and he asked very quietly. "Did you hear this and feel that? We have to adjust a few details on the car". It cannot get more Italian than that. My Dad said he was allowed to take a look at a one of car they were building for a Belgian billionaire. They made a big car with two 3500l engines combined. I never read anything about this vehicle. It would be nice to find out something about this car.
Great story on this amazing early car. Finding those matching grilles in Italy, lucky or exaustive searching you would think, and the Pininfarina records from way back then. That really takes a lot of digging. Plus the amazing color! You have my vote.
Considering how rare the fender vents are, have you considered having the parts scanned, like Jay Leno does, to ensure they can be replicated if necessary? @@tomyangnet
A handful of PF Coupes were ordered with side grilles, and with the forensic proof on this car, I can feel with relative confidence that this was one of them that came like this from the Factory.
Stunning car. I feel the shows, by way of accurate judging brings the car to its historical integrity. That is a plus for us all who want to see into the past as such. Concerning keeping the battery up. I don't know, but you could get a solar panel with a 12V charge controller that would work in the sunshine state without an outlet.
I don't think every car should be a show car, but keeping the details largely correct helps maintain their history. The show cars help everyone else understand the utmost standard of correctness. I believe a solar panel large enough to charge a 12V battery in the few hours on a show field would be pretty large let alone unsightly. A small one would take several hours, if not days, to make a difference to a dead battery. Thanks for your thoughts and for watching!
Hey Tom, very interesting to see the copied Pf documents. I had always heard the Pf coupes were a mix of vinyl and leather. I got curious so I just went and checked my original (but very poor condition) interior from my car produced around the same time (1543GT). My car was black with a red interior. It looks like the door cards and transmission tunnel cover are full red leather. The majority of top, back, and sides the seats are red leather with red vinyl covering the back of the seat and some strips under the seat bottoms. The rear luggage pleated panel is red vinyl. The vertical side panels in the rear and in the front footwells is red vinyl. The black switch panel under the dash is black leather. It seems Ferrari was trying to make all of the common touch points leather and the rest vinyl on most of the Pf coupes. Cool to see a full leather one!
@NickShirrell yes, many PF coupes were a mix of leather and vinyl. I worked on 1747 which was an unrestored PF Coupe that we entered in Preservation Class several years ago, and it had a mix of the two materials. With hand made cars that were often custom ordered, there are no hard fast rules, but it took getting this document to prove it on 1557. Thanks for watching.
Nice info about the process! why not get a car bubble or two? Pretty affordable, collapsible , and low running costs. Since you might not be storing the cars long you might be able to run the humidity fan at a lower level too.
Good lord, the platinum level of perfection just makes me seriously dislike the show car collector world. Cars in a hermetic bubble, never to be driven.... Enzo would kick some dents in that car with a muddy boot.
Although this level of perfection can get tedious, there is place for this kind of accuracy to document exactly how these cars were made. I do enjoy driving them too! Thanks for watching.
Tom, question. Do you know if there is a reason on the bottom seat cushion that stitching was only done 3/4's of the way around and didn't take it all the way around? It kind of looks like they took a bench seat and cut it in half, spread them apart and put a console in between them. It always gave me an odd "feeling" between my left leg compared to my right leg when in the drivers seat. Hope I explained it well enough that you understand what I'm talking about 😂
I know what you mean. I'm not sure why these 250GTs had a different shape to the seats. I know some of the early SI cars had a different shifter configuration, but I don't know if this would have affected the shape of the seat. I'm open to opinions! Thanks for watching.
I respect those who in their own minds need to compete in these shows as custodians of the cars however I don't understand the obsession and believe it is a psychological symptom akin to a Howard Hughes like phobia ! LOL.
I think it’s a desire to win and to own the best. An award for these cars also tend to increase the value, but these are just a few reasons. Thanks for watching!
@@tomyangnet I agree, however even when u are the best it's only a moment in time and then it begins to lessen by entropy. Time does not stand still....
LOVE the archival proof of the original interior material!!! What a fantastic historical detail that you have “officially” documented for the judges to review…best of luck!
I have to thank people like Hill Raab, that took the time and made the effort to transpose those ledgers before anyone felt that information was important! Thanks for watching.
Beautiful car! Your attention to detail in prepping it is amazing, too! I appreciate restoring and showing cars but I would want to drive it.
I always tell my customers that show these cars that once they've won their awards, they should then just drive and enjoy them. Thanks for watching.
Thank you for this video. This is beautiful. This is your subscriber on the West Coast Los Angeles. I’ve been to Pebble Beach concourse, and 2004 and I forgot the other year was that but I’ve been twice and I’ve definitely felt sorry for the owner of the car or the person that was presenting the car of how much ask him that person had to do around, trying to open everything up for the guy or whatever so they can win an award. It happened to us at the time friends with the owner of BLACK HOURSE in Beverly Hills when the guys presented a 1959 super America and they knock off points. Well, I hope this makes sense. I know what you guys are going through when you are trying to win an award at these concourse I’ve seen it before, all in all this car is beautiful
It can be stressful at times, but sometimes pays off when everything works and the judges agree it's a nice car! Thanks for watching.
Thank you for illustrating just how difficult this process really is I can't imagine anyone doing a better job,I guess no matter what its still somewhat a subjective judging process.Good luck and thank you sir.
I work with judges all the time refining their rulings. It shouldn’t be subjective, but an open line of communication is important! I often say that I spend months and years correcting hundreds of deductible points while a judge spends 15 minutes to find three points to disqualify a car from winning an award! Thanks for watching.
I love the "gill element" on the fender. It reminds me a lot of the prettiest car our family has ever owned. The Maserati 3500 Granturismo Superleggera. Same area, similar styling, same classiness on this Ferrari and the Maserati of my Grandpa. Miss this Maserati to this day. And this blue is absolutely stunning and classy. Dark blue metallic looks great on every classic GT car.
Among all the Ferraris you have featured so far, this might be one of my absolute favourites. Being born in 1960 and being a car nut since my very early childhood, it is not surprising that I am addicted to classy Italian sports cars and finned Beauties from Detroit. I really hope this car gets platinum. It really deserves it.
Yes, the 3500 is very similar in look to this PF Coupe. I may actually prefer the 3500 to the PF Coupe (don't tell anyone)! The color combination on this PF Coupe, however is very nice, and presents well. Let's hope the Judges agree! Thanks for watching.
@@tomyangnet My Grandpa's car was silver metallic like many other 3500 Granturismos.
Fun fact: I was to small to remember clearly. But in 1962 my parents and him drove to Modena.There they serviced the car and replaced the four speed ZF with a five gear transmission.
That prooved that a Granturismo could bring 4 people on a 800km roundtrip. The other thing was: Can you imagine, back in those days you could actually bring a vehicle to be worked on and serviced at the manufacterer, get a tour of the company and then being brought to test strip with the mechanic that had worked on the car?
My Dad said never before or ever after he was as scared as during the test drive. He claimed that they were never on the track with all four wheels and the dirt was shot in the air about twenty feet and most of the time they were racing on the track nearly sideways. He said he was quite sure he was going to die. Then the guy got out of the car and he asked very quietly. "Did you hear this and feel that? We have to adjust a few details on the car". It cannot get more Italian than that.
My Dad said he was allowed to take a look at a one of car they were building for a Belgian billionaire. They made a big car with two 3500l engines combined. I never read anything about this vehicle. It would be nice to find out something about this car.
Good luck Tom!
Thanks. Fingers crossed!
And the owner.... 🤞
With such a beautiful and immaculate car I'm sure they will score well!
@@jimurrata6785 thank you!
Beautiful car Tom! Good luck
Thanks! Let’s hope we do well!
Great story on this amazing early car. Finding those matching grilles in Italy, lucky or exaustive searching you would think, and the Pininfarina records from way back then. That really takes a lot of digging. Plus the amazing color! You have my vote.
I owe both of those finds to Hill Raab, who was visiting the factories and taking down the notes back in the day when this stuff wasn’t noticed!
Considering how rare the fender vents are, have you considered having the parts scanned, like Jay Leno does, to ensure they can be replicated if necessary? @@tomyangnet
Beautiful car. The side grilles really make it special, especially when you say it was ordered that way.
A handful of PF Coupes were ordered with side grilles, and with the forensic proof on this car, I can feel with relative confidence that this was one of them that came like this from the Factory.
That looks great Tom. Looking forward to seeing the car next week!
Be sure to stop me and say hello!
Will do sir. See you then. @@tomyangnet
Absolutely stunning car. Good luck to ya'll!
I agree, and now let's hope the judges concur!
Stunning car. I feel the shows, by way of accurate judging brings the car to its historical integrity. That is a plus for us all who want to see into the past as such.
Concerning keeping the battery up. I don't know, but you could get a solar panel with a 12V charge controller that would work in the sunshine state without an outlet.
I don't think every car should be a show car, but keeping the details largely correct helps maintain their history. The show cars help everyone else understand the utmost standard of correctness.
I believe a solar panel large enough to charge a 12V battery in the few hours on a show field would be pretty large let alone unsightly. A small one would take several hours, if not days, to make a difference to a dead battery.
Thanks for your thoughts and for watching!
Hey Tom, try using paint overspray plastic film to cover cars. No dust gets through. Can be found at local auto body paint supply. Well priced too.
Thanks for the tip!
Hey Tom, very interesting to see the copied Pf documents. I had always heard the Pf coupes were a mix of vinyl and leather. I got curious so I just went and checked my original (but very poor condition) interior from my car produced around the same time (1543GT). My car was black with a red interior. It looks like the door cards and transmission tunnel cover are full red leather. The majority of top, back, and sides the seats are red leather with red vinyl covering the back of the seat and some strips under the seat bottoms. The rear luggage pleated panel is red vinyl. The vertical side panels in the rear and in the front footwells is red vinyl. The black switch panel under the dash is black leather. It seems Ferrari was trying to make all of the common touch points leather and the rest vinyl on most of the Pf coupes. Cool to see a full leather one!
@NickShirrell yes, many PF coupes were a mix of leather and vinyl. I worked on 1747 which was an unrestored PF Coupe that we entered in Preservation Class several years ago, and it had a mix of the two materials. With hand made cars that were often custom ordered, there are no hard fast rules, but it took getting this document to prove it on 1557. Thanks for watching.
Nice info about the process!
why not get a car bubble or two? Pretty affordable, collapsible , and low running costs. Since you might not be storing the cars long you might be able to run the humidity fan at a lower level too.
My solution is to get the show cars out of my shop as soon as possible! Thanks for watching.
Good lord, the platinum level of perfection just makes me seriously dislike the show car collector world. Cars in a hermetic bubble, never to be driven.... Enzo would kick some dents in that car with a muddy boot.
Although this level of perfection can get tedious, there is place for this kind of accuracy to document exactly how these cars were made. I do enjoy driving them too! Thanks for watching.
Tom, question. Do you know if there is a reason on the bottom seat cushion that stitching was only done 3/4's of the way around and didn't take it all the way around? It kind of looks like they took a bench seat and cut it in half, spread them apart and put a console in between them. It always gave me an odd "feeling" between my left leg compared to my right leg when in the drivers seat.
Hope I explained it well enough that you understand what I'm talking about 😂
I know what you mean. I'm not sure why these 250GTs had a different shape to the seats. I know some of the early SI cars had a different shifter configuration, but I don't know if this would have affected the shape of the seat. I'm open to opinions! Thanks for watching.
I respect those who in their own minds need to compete in these shows as custodians of the cars however I don't understand the obsession and believe it is a psychological symptom akin to a Howard Hughes like phobia ! LOL.
I think it’s a desire to win and to own the best. An award for these cars also tend to increase the value, but these are just a few reasons. Thanks for watching!
@@tomyangnet I agree, however even when u are the best it's only a moment in time and then it begins to lessen by entropy. Time does not stand still....
@@supersonique001 to some, that moment in the sun is worth the effort! To each its own.
@@tomyangnet Yep, all the best Dottore.