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Thanks for the tire Tom !!😊

One year later : "So I decided to import this Burton 2CV because I found out you that with these speed limits you can't have fun driving a Ferrari or a Porsche anymore on open roads." th-cam.com/video/B-6Z_RPGqv8/w-d-xo.html

In the UK they are incredibly popular. Not only is there an owners' club but there is also an exclusively 2CV racing competition. Developed in secret by Citroen during the Nazi occupation of France. They didn't want the Germans to get their hands on it. Affectionately known as The Snail.

Gorgeous! I usually like red but this is just beautiful!

Beautiful job! Matching tires is a big thing with show cars. Do they have a 500 point system for judging? It takes 90 percent work to gain those final points! Looks like you have done such a job! Best wishes for the show!

My compliments on the fine level of preparation for the Cavallino. Having done my fair share of FCA concours I looks like the car is at a solid Gold level but not quite platinum. No disrespect to your abilities but I think the items you noted as not being practical to fix and a generalization of things I noticed will possibly result in the car just scoring shy of platinum. What a lot of people get wrong is that if a car gets a handful of deductions one time it does not mean that correcting those will result in a full recovery of those points next time around. Judges are prone to quickly bracket a car to a level and will adjust their judging to mirror their ideas. It gets even harder as you get closer to 100 points because some judges refuse to give a perfect score and will search closer and closer until they find something.

I would be scared to death to drive THAT car down a stone driveway. I drive a chrysler 300s and I freak out driving on a stone anything. Man beautiful car!!

Its beautiful. Do what you want with it.

Amazing. So many details.

Great car, great work!

So very impressive thanks for taking the viewers along.Good luck thank you sir

Bore Scoring: yes, you’re only going to see pictures of broken engines. It’s an internal problem. But…you can scope the engines thru the spark plug holes or through the oil sump if you’re really snazzy, and see if it’s happening. There are builders who have shared that they have people bring in their cars for a rebuild because the borescope showed that they have bore scoring, only to find out once it’s torn apart that it’s light scuffing and they could’ve enjoyed years more of driving before needed to consider a rebuild. I bought my 997.1 knowing that bore scoring is a potential problem, and when it rears its head I’ll deal with it. I’ll scope my engine when I do plugs to keep an eye on it. I use Driven oil, I do used oil analysis to keep an eye on aluminum and silicon levels, I use proper warm up procedures, I don’t take a lot of short trips. It’s real, and it isn’t cheap to fix correctly, but get educated, assess your risk tolerance, and move on to something else if you’re unwilling to accept the possibility that it might happen to you. Conversely there are folks who by 80-100K mile cars, have them scoped and the borescope showed are clean. Life is full of risks, choose yours.

a little tip that may enable you to look at a car with "fresh eyes" - so you may see 'flaws' like the Yokohama tyre, that you see so often you don't even look at it anymore. I used to tutor architecture, the draftsman has exactly the same problem, he shall have spent so much time drawing, shading etc. that he no longer sees what is actually on the paper, but what he thinks he has drawn (he cannot see the "Wood for the Trees")... often the drawing looks dull and boring. What we do is hold the drawing up to a mirror, all of a sudden its a different perspective and you see from someone else's viewpoint, it nearly always makes it look better! Everyone suffers from seeing the same thing over and over again, its like how odd you look in a photo, unreversed compared with when you look in the mirror at your own face. So its, difficult but why not look in a mirror at your car OR photograph it and print the photos or at least view them wrong way round, I reckon prints will be better because you can view them under different lights - daylight is always clearest, probably what the judges shall use - but you can make a 'mark-up' copy on a print which helps make a list of tasks for you too. I suppose you are 'seeing' your Ferrari but not 'LOOKING' ? ...... Keep up the good work, Colin

You did a fantastic job on this beautiful GTC. I hope it will win the best award; fingers crossed

Dal punto di vista della eleganza, signorilità, prestigio... una Ferrari Classica è imbattibile ❤

Things are coming together. What a great color on this car..... I wish you luck at Cavallino Tom. This is Ramses by the way.

Your passion is appreciated. Everyone has an opinion but I agree there are many ways to enjoy classic cars. Drive them, show them, polish and stare at them. It’s really up to the owner. It’s all good. That 330 is a beautiful car, Tom. Love the color inside and out. Please let us know how it does at Cavallino. Keep up the great work. Totally enjoy your videos!

As a cyclist and a life long Campagnolo guy, I love when Campy is mentioned. This car is gorgeous, Tom. Chapeau!

Car is just amazing. The details just make the car. Looks like it just arrived in the dealership! Congrats and good luck to both you and the owner at Cavallino!

I'd love to hear more about the business side. Quoting, billing, backlog, etc

Another great video Tom. I'm looking forward to seeing you and the 330 at Cavallino!

GOOD VIDEO!!!!

Hey Tom, another great vid. Love your content!!!

Stunning car. You’ve done a great job. Good luck in Fla.

This is the type of content that makes this one of my favourite channels on TH-cam. The amount of details and expertise are fascinating. Keep up the great work Tom!

EXCELLENT video!! In just a few minutes you gleened all the hard-learned lessons I experienced in doing my two 330 engines. Wish I'd had the chance to see this back then...but you were very young in them days. My 2+2 now has just over 60K miles on the rebuild and compression is still 150-155 in every cylinder and leak down is almost perfect. I had the advantage of a master machinist who'd worked for Bruce McLaren in his youth, and Brucie was a no-compromise perfectionist. Scott is the only machinist I know of in New Zealand who gets Ferrari work from all over the globe...or DID, before he retired last year (and I still thik of him as a youngster!).

Love the way Borannis look, but they're just too much hassle for me. My 2+2 had them originally, but I traded them out for alloys in the mid-1980s. Boranni Wheel Service in Atlanta (long gone now) did the deal, and a got a new set of XWXs as part of the deal! Now, that probably sounds like I got screwed, but times change...and the alloys were beautifully refinished and STILL look great. Later, I got them to do my GTC alloys...and they still look great too. After decades. That's worthwhile.

Great info man. I agree the low milage car stuff is crap. I bought my first 911 a few months ago. A guards red 2002 c2 and I love it. I got it with 89k miles and Ive put about 4k miles on it so far and its been perfect! THe prices are just going to keep going up on these as people are realizing how great these cars actually are

Hello, i remember watching a video of yours from 3-4 years ago and you were showing the braking system from one of the either late 50s or early 60s ferraris i dont remember the exact model. The braking system had twin master cylinders with twin brake boosters and you explained why that was in the video but i forgot the reason now sadly and i also cant find that video anymore because i forgot which model that car was. Do you remember that video? Would be awesome if its still up and you could share the videos full name so that i can watch it again :) Edit: i think i remembered the reason, it was because ferrari didnt have a dual master cylinder design yet so they used 2x of single master cylinders and so they also had to use 2x brake booster one for each seperate single master cylinder but i still dont remember which car and video that was from

I have an 2003 996 nb... IMS done by previous owner. As for bore scoring, use a 5w50 viscosity which is now recommended by Porsche and use an oil with high MOLY content like Redline Oil or Driven with over 500PPM of moly its mixture. Moly sticks to aluminum and it'll fix your issue. I worry about nothing. Car is great

I hope the 996 "hate", no matter how irrational, it never ends so PORSCHE Loving, blue collar guys like me can afford the only affordable 911 on the market today.

That Grigio Fumo looks fantastic on the 330. I’ve heard some stories of body shops getting a little over their head installing the lights and chrome on these old Ferraris. Better to leave that stuff to the experts.

We went to hundreds of car shows back in the day. Up in Connecticut it was great in the 70s and 80s. Fast forward to 2006 and my Mini Cooper S. We rallied the Hills of Mohawk Mountain. One rally had 6 cars...One rally had 65!!! We had some really good times. Thanks for sharing your adventures. Really cool!!... I even got to drive my Uncles 32 Ford Pickup truck in the Hamden Ct Memorial day parade... I was 15 years old! I fit right in to a 10 car line up as we waved to the crowd...

This must be the last "affordable" classic ferrari model out there, really nice tourer

Your attention to detail is the beauty of your videos no one else shows these things so that makes yours different and the best classic Ferrari channel in my humble opinion.Thank you sir

You're definitely right about Porsche owners worrying about everything. I think its sort of like the Ferrari 308 owners worrying about sodium filled valves.

Your electric windows go up nice and quick -- like a normal car! It reminds me that eventually I'm going to have to pull apart the slow and labored window mechanism in my Mondial. It's not a job I'm looking forward to.

Quality work Tom. Thanks for sharing.

Yeah unjamming Windows is fun:/

Another great video,thank you.

Thank you Tom to give us update about this car. It is far better with this color than when it was in Red. And by the way, congrats on reaching 3k subscribers 🥳

Red is right. Gray is fugly.

Cuoio will look really good with the grigio

Love the details, so show as much detail as you like

Love the methodical approach to solve each problem you come across. Btw is that a sunbeam tiger lurking in the garage ?

Thanks for new video! Probably better in the end for you to be installing the detail parts since you’d be sure it was correct. Grey with tan is timeless… My favorite color combo for a sports car.

MUCH handsomer in grigio than red, although I really like the current interior. Ferrari doors are one of the places where you realize these cars were HAND made and each was just a bit different from the next one and/or the previous one. Watching your travails make me glad (once again) that both of my cars have wind-up windows and all-original trim and paint. My daughter keeps lobbing for a respray/retrim of my 2+2, mostly becase she has never liked the colours. I've told her that she can do whatever tickles her fancy, if I ever die. But I'm working to keep that eventuality in the distant future! Interesting video...

I find it interesting how so many of these classic Ferraris were repainted in the 80's to be red. It seems the tide is turning back to making these more period-correct, although Grigio Silverstone isn't a classic color. Close enough to Fumo, I guess.

Sometime, it would be great to see you "fit" a grill or other trim piece to the body of a car. It might seem boring to some, but I would learn a lot from seeing you go through the process. Thanks, great video!