Great episode Tom, fortunately the guy was smart enough to engage your services up front and keep the appraisal rational. So hard not to become emotionally attached when looking at such an example, it will sell regardless, so it’s not lost. The little Alfa behind looked nice too.

Bless you for even going down to look at these things. I have absolutely zero kind things to say about Gullwing, I hate to say that but that has entirely been my experience with them. To anyone considering a car on Gullwing’s website, you must know they know exactly nothing about the cars they have, but they have no problem saying ‘nice driver’ or ‘nice example’. They know nothing about their cars, you need to go over the car 100% and do your homework.

Every time I visit Gullwing motorcars' web site I shudder like a fly trapped in a spider's web ! LOL.

Long workday for me, Toms videoes is good for me , sharp informative, tom,denmark

Very valuable video for anyone contemplating a classic car purchase. I love the phycology behind such a purchase. As great a restorer as Tommy is, he is even more valuable as an evaluator and as a therapist. 😁

I LOVE these videos, Tom is the Ferrari Whisperer 🙇🏻‍♂️

I was looking at that car on ebay. Looks pretty clean online at least.

Great video Tom. Thanks for sharing your valuable experience of taking a novice buyer through the risks and pitfalls of buying a 1960s Ferrari. I wasn’t so wise as to take an expert with me when I bought my 1969 365GT 2+2 in the U.K. It had 96000 miles on the odometer and looked beautiful. Within the first week it blew 6 piston rings in the workshop having its pre-delivery workshop check. Fortunately I bought from a main Ferrari dealer who gave me a full 12 months engine and gearbox warranty and they rebuilt the whole engine at their cost. It took them a year as they had to manufacture from scratch new crankshafts etc.. It would have cost me ca £80k had I had to pay for it. Narrow escape. I still have it now 7 years later and it runs beautifully. Moral of the story, take an expert with you when you go to the showroom, or buy from a very reputable dealer with a valuable reputation to maintain. Interestingly, the boss of the dealer reckoned that it was a young mechanic who was used to working on modern Ferrari engines who didn’t realise older ones have to be carefully nursed up to temperature before revving them up. Expensive lesson for that guy. Thanks again Tom, very interesting.

Before buying my car I had decades of reading about Ferraris in general and a couple of years dedicated to researching individual models on F-Chat and other on line resources. I was able to recognize a good car when I found one but there were still plenty of surprises in store. Having someone like you go over a potential purchase is money extremely well spent.

I’m surprised how little the buyer knew about Ferrari’s. With so many books on Ferrari. Someone ready to spend six figures on a car and they have done zero research. He was lucky he found you.

This was a really great video Tom. Thanks!

Thanks for the video. I feel you did look out for the guy's best interest. I agree that emotion plays a big part with the car hobby, One thing newbies have to understand is that cars give but they also take. To use a quote that is attributed to the late Smokey Yunick "this is going to run into money, said the monkey as he peed on the cash register". lol

Maybe I could afford just an ashtray bit like this one. Could you find me one? I'd make a nice base for it in my wood shop.

Too bad it wasn’t drivable. Those Gullwing jawns.

Looks like an old used car, shows the ways we fixed things when they were broken before the big run up. Rode plenty hard and put away wet. I'm sure someone enjoyed every minute. Historically they weren't all owned by multi-millionaires no budget guys. But great to see A survivor. Drive a hard bargain!

Gotta say, the mismatched oil filters really bother me.

who is the supplier for the rollers? do they have bearings inside? could they be matched at the bearing supplier?

whomever did it used parts that did not pass inspection, or thought they would be good enough, or maybe they were never inspected at all, just reinstalled. good to see you can get the rollers.

I found you about six months ago and love your channel.. love your back story. That 330 is gorgeous!

Your points are well taken! This is why for the owners and the technician IMHO it's imperative to fully document what was done so that you know and can come back to the info if and when there may be a dispute. In the aviation world it's the 'law' because of the heightened safety requirements of safe flight(you can't just pull over and check when things go wrong at altitude). It's also valuable information if you want to sell your Ferrari and/or have a PPI done.

Attention sadly soon All Gas cars will be illegal!

Another Utube channel I follow is an engine builder/ dyno tuner of muscle car Mopars. He has a similar problem with inferior quality parts. Usually valve train parts, flat tappet cams for instance. They say some engine builders are going to roller cams instead of flat tappet to avoid the angst of failure down the road. Does the Ferrari factory offer anything for rebuilding their cars? I'm sure if they did the cost would be pretty high. Good looking out before those parts let go.

Pragmatic reasoning, an excellent vision of things 👍

Great process, find one fault, correct it. Find two faults, baseline replacement, especially on critical components. Love your thinking. Beautiful valve train.

HELLO ANY OTHER NAZIS IN HERE?

Thanks for posting this -- I love the attention to detail, and the overall professionalism of your work. I find it inspiring.

Can't believe you don't have more subscribers. This is the best US channel. The only one to compete with Harry and Ian.

Interesting, and all great points made. Thanks for your videos tony very much enjoy. Looking forward to your next video.

You can bet those rollers were not replaced. So few individuals know these engines. A great upgrade for those would be a DLC coated version

They're so lucky they have you to look at and find these things. That rocker was a real issue waiting to become a big issue!

First comment yessss! Keep it up I always enjoy learning through your videos and how these lessons could apply to my Volvo 1800.

Roger drives this Cobra and his other cars quite vigorously on the appropriate roads and conditions. The roads around the Amelia Concours are usually quite busy with many entrances and exits and cross streets. He knows when and when not to drive vigorously. Some folks don’t.

Hello Tom Thanks for the video. My brother and I are overhauling a 330 and wonder if there was any secret to removal of the oil pump from the timing chest? 4 nuts are removed but it's solid???

Alcohol pads gets rid of sticky man

Yup! Typical Webers. Not just Ferrari's and unfair to label them accordingly. I worked for Alfa for many years, UK and Canada, and this was a typical problem with older cars that had sat for a while, though Alfa owners drive their (more practical) cars more frequently, daily, than Ferrari owners. Plus, with four cylinders, you only have two carbs to service. The car needs to be driven more often. Why have it otherwise?

Wow! I thought the only one with a Sun distributor tester was Bill Badurski of FCA way back when. With one of those your shop will start looking like Dr. Frankenstein's laboratory, watch out for the lightning strikes! LOL.

Kudos for the detective work and not just throwing parts at a symptom! Gosh, that car sounds great in your garage just idling!

Do you change the condensers when the points and plugs are replaced?

I repair electronics as a hobby. Without a doubt, the #1 reason for failure is the electrolytic capacitor. I am quite certain that the condenser in a points ignition system is an electrolytic capacitor. Since the condenser is typical replaced during an annual tune-up, they may not be given the opportunity to fail very often. The capacitors in the power supply of modern electronic equipment on the other hand are never maintenance items.

The Sun 503 is an invaluable tool when working on pre '75 ignition systems .... excellent content as usual Tom !

Beautiful car but it's being granny driven without a hint of any performance or handling potential. Would have been nice to see it a modicum of its performance capability and handling obviously within safe and legal limits.

great detailed video. Love that color combination

Pretty trick snap ring pliers

Great update video Tom….

On my Mondial I think I have the same issue with a worn reverse lockout tab -- it just slots into reverse w/o needing to be pressed down. The steel of those gates must be quite soft for it to wear down like that, which surprises me. In my case, I don't think it's worth the trouble to repair it properly, as I'm never tempted to downshift from first :)

Tom...awesome video. I just poked around my 308 and it has the same lockout arrangement but I never really knew much about the function. Just I has to push down. Thanks!

Thanks for sharing very interesting

Thinking about doing the bumper modification to my GT4. Could you have just drilled out the shocks while on the car? I'm also thinking if I didn't push it all the way back the lights would fit better and that wider piece on eh bumper would match up better with the rest of the bodywork. I may not do the back bumper as my exhaust sticks out about 2 inches past the bumper now, so if the bumper got sucked it the exhaust might look to far out.

Never fail to learn something from your videos. I’ve got to check the reverse lockout tab on my car. Thanks.

GOOD VIDEO!!!!