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Reply to "Heated rear window - not shown on wiring diagram?"

Chris, this may be one of the 'take a deep breath' moments, and the good news is that, at a concours, its not like even the Mangusta experts (and I think that is us!) could swear one way or the other...but there are many things here that are not 'usual.' Denis' note of the switch on the steering column automatically id's this car as something out of the normal linearity of things...

  - good question on the heater switch, it doesn't appear in the wiring diagrams but we are all sure that there were some cars made with the switch. As long as your glass had the defrosters, go with it...

- the relay arrangement is not usual...I can only think of 4 relays in the car (the Fiamm Horn relay for the country horn, in the US there was one on the steering column somehow related to the flasher, and there by the fuse box the only (2) relays were the Carello (22.900.000) that are switched on by the key. The addition of the mini-relays is super-smart (if its what I am guessing), since without them you have this rather bad design where so many items go from the battery in the rear of the car to the ignition switch, then back to the fuse box before heading back north to the front of the car (headlights and fan). The addition of the mini-relays is smart, but as well (and oh, hold your ears, this may hurt ) the insulative covers on the terminals was black or green. And marked "Italy." And impossible to find...But there is very little chance that anybody would have re-terminated the whole wiring harness, and if the terminal ends all agree you have a good reason to think they were factory.

  If the black terminal block attached to the blue wire (the one marked "red" ) is marked "Mamut", there is some hope that this was factory wiring. Not to exclude what other brand of terminal block, or even that the wire type appears to be solid-blue (and I just cannot remember other single-color wires), I'd also be curious what people have seen on cars that did have the defroster switch.

- the parking brake switch did show up on the schematic, and we have seen some cars (I'm thinking the Bordinat car) that had the little lamp indicator probably for it. And the same parking brake was used on Lotus, there is a Lucas switched that could have worked...But the brake lamp was really not standard, its one of those "look at that" things border on the 'really happened' side of urban myth.

-  I'd sure think '1044 would have still been made in Italy and have the Ford umbrella style parking brake. I have no idea how the cabling was laid out for the German cars, but assume that they did NOT pass thru the pulley arrangement in the front trunk of the car...If you don't have a pulley and your parking brake is broken, assume its factory

...so the good news, the Mangusta is a mystery ...Don't panic, thanks for asking (!), and none of this needs to hamper anybody who thinks your car is perfect--it just may still be...! (and even, looking at the pictures at Cartique, I'm not sure I see a single thing that looks 'wrong...' it looks remarkably 'as built"--Lee

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