1966 Giulia Super Project

[Craig_m67]

Wow, lovely !

Is that curved battery tray (pop riveted in!) available anywhere, i need one of those?
And how susceptible to greasy finger marks and oil is the vapour blasted metal, is there a temp proof clear coat?

[ItalCarGuy]

Ha! Are you spotting all my greasy prints in the pics?! They seem to clean off ok. I thought about a clear but heard of a few going badly. I figured I'd go au naturale and let it oxidize as nature intended but these bits were done over a year and a half ago and still look great.

As for the battery tray, yes pop riveted! Will be easier to remove when I fit the supercharger, aircon and musical horns. That one was NOS and cost a few dollars out of Germany about 3 years ago. They dont reproduce them. It is usually only the tray that gets shagged so if you can find the guard I am sure you could find a suitably sized generic tray to weld it to and no one would be the wiser.

[ItalCarGuy]

Actually the head was hot dipped and gets dirty a lot easier so I think there must be a less porous finish after the vapour blasting.

[ItalCarGuy]

Hmmm, so it seems its been a while since I've updated this thread...

I have been heavily distracted for a while but I figured I better finish this car to a point where I can at least enjoy it! I'm pleased to say it is now on the road. I still have a few things to sort but I they hopefully won't delay me too much. Inability to bleed my brakes sufficiently caused a large stoppage but a friend came through for me and troubleshot that.

Lots of other two steps forward one step back scenarios that I won't bore you with.

Latest thing I did was that I had the widened original 15" steelies powder coated with new tyres and off I went! Pleased that I got all my electrics working well too!

[ItalCarGuy]

A couple of quick pics from yesterday's drive. Lens was greasy on my phone so I wasn't really trying for the 70's glam shot!

[17fitty]

Beautiful example Derek-well done to you looks awesome

[EZEE]

great job Derek - well done, looks lovely

EZ

[ItalCarGuy]

Thanks 17fitty and EZ, its nice actually having it back on the road. Its been waaaaay too long.

Another shakedown session. Sorted my driveshaft shudder. A few new problems to solve now... Drained battery being the main one.