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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Thanks! Let’s hope we do well!

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.

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

Thanks. Fingers crossed!

And the owner.... 🤞 With such a beautiful and immaculate car I'm sure they will score well!

@@jimurrata6785 thank you!

Be sure to stop me and say hello!

Will do sir. See you then. @@tomyangnet

@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.

I agree, and now let's hope the judges concur!

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!

Thanks for the tip!

My solution is to get the show cars out of my shop as soon as possible! Thanks for watching.

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.

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 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.