Vintage Ferrari- 1974 365

[budman3]

I had the pleasure working on this 1974 Ferrari 365 Berlinetta Boxer V12 this past weekend. The vehicle was repainted in single stage Glasurit back 25 years ago and hasn’t been machined polished in 18 years. Upon inspection the paint was in better condition than most new cars today! There was limited amount of contamination and swirling. And before I get too far into this, yes the car gets driven . At first it was a little intimidating but then I was able to focus and find the correct polish and pad combination to get the finish back to new.

At first I started with the UDM and a 5.5” Lake Country CCS polishing pad with Menzerna 106FF. It did a fair amount of cutting on this single stage paint but wasn’t quite enough. I then bumped up to Wolfgang Finishing Glaze 3.0 with a low profile 5.5” Lake Country orange cutting pad which wasn’t much better either and left some micromarring. Finally I busted out the 4” pads and Wolfgang Total Swirl Remover 3.0 and a Lake Country light cut pad. This removed all but the deepest swirling and left no visible micromarring. Some panels required a second pass with the TSR3.0. Since the finish was very nice just after the TSR3.0 I finished off with a 7.5” Lake Country finishing pad with Menzerna PO85U and a PC. The final polish really amped up the finish. The black lower portions of the car were polish by hand and UDM with 4” pads with various polishes, including Powergloss, SSR2.5, ProPolish and PO85U (depending on the panel). Finally a coat of regular P21S was applied after an alcohol wipedown. All that was included in this portion of the detail was the red and black paint. The rest will be finished this weekend.

Cliff notes:
S&W wipedown
Clay
Wolfgang TSR3.0, UDM, 4" LC orange pads
Menzerna PO85U, PC, 7.5" LC blue pads
P21s

These are the before pictures:















After just the Wolfgang TSR3.0:









After Menz PO85U and P21S wax:












Opinions, questions, comments??

[HighEndDetail]

Nice work budman, did you get to drive it

[Brian_Brice]

Nice job budman. If he did drive it he will tell you will never wants to drive another one, it's got to be the worst driving car of all time. The clutch is like an on off switch, and so is the accelerator. No power steering, it's a beautiful car though, we just got done putting 50+ hours on something very similar.

[budman3]

Originally Posted by Brian_Brice

Nice job budman. If he did drive it he will tell you will never wants to drive another one, it's got to be the worst driving car of all time. The clutch is like an on off switch, and so is the accelerator. No power steering, it's a beautiful car though, we just got done putting 50+ hours on something very similar.

I was a little scared to touch the car, let alone drive it . The whole front suspension and steering has been updated immensely, which the owner said improved the handling a lot. He did mention something about the clutch but he said he'd rather drive this than his M3 because of the challenge and fun of it.

[sparkie]

You have that red looking so wet and deep...Awesome work there....

[Jimmie]

Very nice job. That red is beautiful.

A friend of mine had one. It cost him thousands of dollars (in the 70's) to have it tuned up. The engine had to be pulled to get to some of the spark plugs he told me.

[richy]

Budman..beautiful job on a beautiful machine!! The owner must have been blown away.

[TH0001]

Originally Posted by Brian_Brice

Nice job budman. If he did drive it he will tell you will never wants to drive another one, it's got to be the worst driving car of all time. The clutch is like an on off switch, and so is the accelerator. No power steering, it's a beautiful car though, we just got done putting 50+ hours on something very similar.

Brian is not kidding. We have detailed 5 of the Boxer Series cars, and I had the "pleasure" of driving one with Brian to deliver it to a show 20 miles away. The thing was that this car only had 800 miles on it, so it was terrifiying to drive on the high way, the clutch was incrediably touching and impossible to engage smoothly and the throttle pedal was very stiff (6 carbs). Just a challenge all the way around...

Great job on this model, the 365 is a VERY rare car and in some ways the purest of the bunch. Also the 6 taillights and exhaust tips are very cool as well.

[zoomzoom mazda5]

Awesome work Budman! Truly a work of art.......Bravo

[Totoland Mach]

Fantastic work on a beautiful car Budman! Congrat's Sir!

Toto