Nice work! When I bought my 308 GT4 that exact piece was missing on mine as well. Fortunately, I found mine—it was in a box of goodies that came with that car.
Photography by Tim Suddard • Lead by David S. Wallens
Before cruising up to Amelia Island, we had a few more things to fix on our Ferrari 308 GT4.
First, someone had made some questionable hardware choices on the sill plate trim. To rectify, we carefully removed the incorrect fasteners, cleaned up the surrounding areas, and put the correct fasteners in place.
This was more than just incorrect hardware. We wondered: How badly was the rest of the restoration work?
While installing the seat belts and prowling around the back seat, we noticed that the B-pillar trim piece was missing altogether.
Crap, where in the heck would we find this piece? As it turned out, we wouldn’t need to worry too much.
We removed the trim from the passenger’s side and looked it over. It was just a simple piece of lightweight aluminum wrapped in interior fabric.
We got out our bending and cutting tools and duplicated the piece, but in reverse so it would fit the driver’s side.
Then we needed to cover the aluminum. A trip to our local upholstery supply shop netted us a scrap of material that wasn’t quite close enough in color.
We had one more trick up our sleeves. There is an upholstery repair shop right near our workshop that literally hoards all kinds of remnants, presumably from every job they have ever done. They had just what we needed, and we bought an entire roll for $10. Should we need more material later, we’ll be prepared.
After a thorough scrubbing of the car inside and out, we were off to Amelia. We took the back way along A1A and even enjoyed the ferry across the St. Johns River.
After a successful debut at our Classic Motorsports Amelia Island Kickoff presented by Sunoco, it was on to the lawn at The Amelia–yes, the show of the weekend.
The upside of being asked to be part of a corporate display in the middle of the showfield is that you have one fantastic parking spot. The downside–sort of–is that you have to be in line by 5:30 a.m. so you can be parked along with the rest of the show cars.
We’ll be honest: We loved being up early, watching the sun rise and talking to the other entrants.
We enjoyed a lovely trip even though there was still some work to do: fixing the air conditioning, lowering the idle a bit and fixing some engine leaks.
Nice work! When I bought my 308 GT4 that exact piece was missing on mine as well. Fortunately, I found mine—it was in a box of goodies that came with that car.
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