paint question on Mangusta

You are speaking of the HVAC intake. The air intake for the heating, ventilation and air conditioning. It should be body color, same color as the car. It is hard to clean out after buffing a car so it should be sealed off.


DICK RUZZIN

Thanks, I am asking as a painter suggested the area be painted flat black, which didn't sound right to me.
To be factory spec, is it to be a fairly "rough" application of paint, or smooth and perfect?

There is no access for painting to that area other than through the open of areas the grate above it, is there? (without carving up the car to create access)

I imagine that when the car was built all the metal in there was clean and paint just was sprayed in. It would be rough, unfinished and not polished.

Do not forget, as most people do, flat black out the pinch weld that holds the underbody to the quarter panels and rocker panel, it runs from front to rear wheel. Also the pinch weld around the front grill that the grill sits on and the grill screws go into , same with the rear end panel that the tail lamps fit onto.
The inner wheelhouses, front and rear are also flat black.

DICK RUZZIN

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Originally posted by Dick Ruzzin:
It should be body color, same color as the car. It is hard to clean out after buffing a car so it should be sealed off.

DICK RUZZIN

Dick,

This may become evident to me when I remove my dash, but is there any way to access that area without cutting metal? Mine is a filled with crud and overspray and it's not like on a Pantera where you can just pop out the grilles. I'd like to clean it up properly.

Thanks,
Mark

It would have been great seeing these cars new at the showroom, and looking for these details! My guess is the air intake area was never that nicely finished - the pic is from my cars several years ago, showing the area in question, without the body section covering it. There should be a sheetmetal 'cap' over the heater intake tube to prevent water from going into the heater (this cap part was rusty on 1010 and replaced after the photo was taken). Anyway I would be surprised if Ghia painted this cavity body color prior to the front clip being welded on over this area (spot welds all around) and it must have been impossible to prevent overspray when the body was painted. So my GUESS is that this area never looked that great. Luckily the vent openings are thin so that obstructs the view to this inaccessible cavity area

Mark,
When I cleaned mine up after paint I used
a brass tube about 18 inches long from the hobby store, flattened it some to go through the little slots and then taped it up to my vacuum. Worked great.

DICK RUZZIN

Great info.

Another question- are the heads of the bolts in the door hinges supposed to be painted? I'm guessing not, but wanted to be sure (currently my driver's side door has unpainted bolts and passenger side has painted bolts)

The hinge bolt heads are painted body color.

There is no seal on the edge of the wings, only around the wheel arch, it clips on the wheel arch flange like the door seal but has a long flap that forms the seal.

DICK RUZZIN

How about windshield wipers?

Painter says it looks like originally they were silver metal with no paint. Seems like most I have seen are painted satin or semi gloss black

I attached a picture from the "original" 10K car that sold here in Boston a couple of years ago. The wipers are chrome.

Euro Panteras and Euro Ferrari of the period had predominantly silver Wipers and US cars had black wipers.

That being said there are Mangusta with black-out wiper and other with silver wipers. Build sheets (at least mine (8MA1244) do not specify how they left the factory)

Laurent (8MA1266) and DickR (8MA670) have black wipers and blacked-out trim

1114 (US car) has silver wipers that I believe to be original.

Mark

Aluminum piece whit spline's ,and the arm stainless on Mangusta's
Simon

Simon,

Welkom!

I just realized that you are lurking about here. Surely you have too much work to do on your cars to sit in front of a computer! Ha Ha.

mark

I have one of my original wiper arms. They were a brushed stainless. I think they are FIAT parts, can’t remember the post diameter.

DICK RUZZIN

Hi Mark ,yes I have always something to do on my cars.But on the moment I need one more car,yesterday I almost buy a 1970 Cyclone spoiler 429CJ

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Originally posted by Mark Charlton:
Simon,

Welkom!

I just realized that you are lurking about here. Surely you have too much work to do on your cars to sit in front of a computer! Ha Ha.

mark

...I think blacked out chrome was a late 70's thing, Goose wiper blades should be satin stainless...Lee

My original wiper arms are satin silver metal finish, no paint.

Dick Ruzzin

Mine cleaned up great!

Removed all the black paint and have flawless stainless blades again!

Brand new stainless wiper arms can be obtained from various Jaguar/Lucas parts places. I got a set from the Jag Shop in the UK. Correct length part number is DAC2658 and price 14 pound each.