OK, you guys are good! I missed the (very obvious) Euro gauges...so that explains the clear turn signal lens! It was way too early in the morning for me to go back and re-watch the episode, but I did save it on the DVR for now. I was counting on more feedback...
As mentioned, most of these things are nits...that can be corrected if one wanted to take this over the top for concours.......not like the body was all cut up with a giant air scoop sticking out of the rear of the roof and hatches with big giant flares on the wheel arches! There are a few of those already.......don't need more!
That owner is one tall guy......the ebrake handle on the shin looks painful!!!
OK, Lee pointed out the parking brake change pre-German builds...which this does not have. What I noticed were the rear shock tower braces added, from the shock tower to the engine compartment wall. Also, the boxed supports/stiffeners on the bottoms of the lower front a-arms.
EDIT after corrected on # of German cars being 52 not 75... These changes are a couple of things that started sometime after my car *878 and the manufacturing location change (last 52 cars?) So roughly 190th (my car) + 52 (German cars)= 242 -401(total build-ish)= 159 ish cars built from around April-May 69 (My car known window and brake dates) to end of Italian production is where this car lies! When the extra rear supports were added could tighten that window up even more..... I thought it was in the #1000-1100 area.....
What we probably can't tell is if these were the 3rd or 4th variety of lower a-arm that had the boxed lower a-arm supports AND the relocated lower shock bolts to accept Koni shocks ala Pantera (it did appear to have Koni shocks!) .........(to clear the lower bushing of the shock and uses a larger bolt hole) I am not sure if this was a German thing......... But I do have a new set of these lower arms which could easily have been left over from the last production........ My car had been in an accident early on, and had one original lower arm (under reinforced!) and one boxed reinforcement version......
Here's my rundown on lower a-arms:
#1) Has strip of flat steel welded on edge to lower arm for reinforcement, but doesn't extend across ball joint cup to reinforce that area (ball joints were busting off end of a-arm!)
#1A) This is a guess..... That the flat steel reinforcement was extended out over the ball joint cup to prevent breakage.......but I have not found any of these yet......
#2) Has boxed reinforcement (actually a "u" shaped piece) added full length of arm out across bottom of u-joint cup. Standard shock mount.
#3) Same as #2 but with larger shock mounts to clear bigger lower shock bushing and relocated/larger diameter hole for shock bolt.
So I need to go back and watch this episode again.....just for grins and "Goose envy" factor.......! It was nice to see a Goose "outed" finally without all the regurgitated "bad" reports about an otherwise beautiful beast!!!
Cheers!