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Wait til I show them this post …. There goes the witness protection program !!!

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Merry Father’s day -

Have you hugged your Maserati today ?

Some more cleaning and polishing before finishing another section ofnthe tail …

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well - its all your fault ... wanted to mention the passing of Dr Fred Simeone - Hagerty just posted the news he is the Simeone of the Simeone Museum / Collection in Phila always very approachable - and a life well lived ... RIP

The seat buttons appear to me to be short lengths of .015. By .040 Evergreen strip - how’my doin, Mr G ?

Its June are we comparing my palmetto swamp to the French Alps ? ? Seriously ? ? Last night at 9:00 it was 84 degrees - Key West is nice - but you must wait until November - and even then - you’ve got to deal with the hordes of cruise ship tourists - nope - this one is “no contest” - as we like to say …

Vell Done …

Slowly getting better … I do a couple lines before work…. And a few more later at night … maybe there’s a better way to say that ??

Jay C : Thanks - the metal will be clearcoated - and then finished with a blue tint - the Delages were reported to have been finished with a light blue lacquer tint …. As you see - the pattern on the lower body panels doesn’t look too good - it should look better on the parts of the body that have less solder filler and have a smoother finish - at Least that’s the plan …

PHILX : the Franch Alps ?? ill be right over !!

Starting at the tail - - the tape guides the wooden bit - the paste is applied to the surface and i grind the swirls one row at a time - it will take some time and practice- but once i move to the upper body panels I should be good at this - worthy of my .75 daily wages …

To apply the swirl pattern I’ve made an abrasive paste - a mix of aluminum oxide and toothpaste …

In place of the sanding disc i’ve fashioned a wooden finishing tool from a tooth pick - so i’ll ne applying the pattern much like those poor workshop hands back in the day …

So I want to apply the finish in organized rows of swirls - better than the somewhat random pattern on the panel forward of the radiator …. I’m going to use Foredom’s right angle handpeice - they no longer sell it - i read at some point that there were issues with this handpeice’s reliability - - so they only produced a limited number of bits for this tool - which is a shame - but here goes ..

Is there a greater shot in all of motorsports than a midnite in-car on the Mulsanne Straight ???

Now the body is ready for Louis Delage’s special sauce - go back back back to page one - the body work was covered with a machine finish - some poor workshop apprentice was handed a hand tool and some abrasive paste and instructed to cover the body work with rows upon rows of swirls- about 1 inch in size - and probably paid about .75 cents a day - until he finished … And all of the team cars 3 or 4 - depending on the race - had this feature - glamorous race cars - miserable shop workers … the good old days !!

Also went over the surface with some metal polish - this stuff is berilium (spelling?) - and the more you polish the more it shines - you can’t get this finish with white metal ..

The body had some mods - Pico designed and casted the ‘25 supercharged car - and I decided to make the unsuper-charged car - the one that was restored about ten years ago - so i went back over the metal with Micro Mesh sanding sticks and pads - 1000 to 8000 - to knock out - as many scratches as i can ….

Alrighty - that was fun …. Now for the hard part ….