1966 Ferrari 275 GTB rear quarter panel secrets

Good evening. It's Ray from ProShaper Workshop in Charlton, Massachusetts

And today we're looking at this Ferrari fender. This is a 275 GTB rear quarter fender

And we also have, this is the left side. We also have the right side

And this pair of quarter panels came in a body shop purchase that I've mentioned before

and this one was all cut off. Apparently they needed the right side rear section of the quarter panel

and they needed the center section of the quarter panel, and you can see the rough cut that they made there

and they threw these down in the basement, and they sat there probably since the 70s

This is a 66 Ferrari, and it's a beautiful car, and it deserved a little bit better to condition

that it was in it was severely rusted both sides of it with humidity rust and I cleaned it up really nice and now you can see all the details I believe this was made in England usually if it was made in Italy it would not have the smooth the surfaces and it'd be a lot of hammer marks and stuff in this case here it has some beautiful wells there fusion gas wells and you can see that one this

Now one of the problems with fusion gas welding is you end up with a lot of divvets as you can see right there And now that we got this clean we can see all these details and this whole back end of the quarter panel We copying it We started making the flexible shape

patents off of it. And here's some of the panels we made. That's the main section of it. And that's

going to get all welded on to the other quarter panel so I have a complete left and right

quarter panel. But you can see the details here. We have a section made here with your seam right

here, another fusion weld. Very small panel, surprisingly small. And then we tip this out

And you can see there's another real long fusion weld running front to back. And that's another

another piece right here and then they actually have another little piece on the wing that

connects over above the trunk lid there and that would have been connected they cut that off they

use the other section of it and then in the inside you can see the wells a little bit better

you can see that fusion well from front to back and i believe what they do when they did those

fusion wells, something I don't really like to do because of all the divvets, but it's a generally accepted practice

is that they could actually weld that before it fully developed So you weld it a little early and then you can set up an English wheel that has the crank on it put a lot of pressure on it and you can get out any little inconsistencies in on the surface and it also stretch it out and it ends up with a really really nice smooth surface here

And this is, you know, expertly done. Just about perfect. A stamp panel couldn't be any better

All the edges, all the 90 degree edges are all done good

but some of them they've welded right on the corner. Even that, they did a really nice job

And these louvers, the way they made that, you can see this is just a simple little panel that they bent up in a break

And then they cut the openings. We'll look at the openings again on the other side

They cut the openings here and then they letted instead of welding where the seam would come together

It's spot welded on. There's a little bit of spot weld evidence there

There's another bit of that fusion gas weld. So lots of nice detail

You can see here on this back section, they've got a little piece just right here

here that they've made. And here's your gutters for the trunk. This is the landing zone for the rear glass

And the interesting feature spin this around here It's the way they made this

There's the way they made this tail light socket. There's the tail light socket

I got to put it in the light a little bit. and it looks like they pressed in that little center circle

and pressed in the other round and then they flared up the top

and then they welded it right on the corner you can see evidence of the weld

and this is 20 gauge steel so when I get all done

get the other one completed, we're going to add that new section on the back. I'll have like a whole

rear quarter, maybe a whole rear body section if I double up this joiner panel here and then I have to

come up with the joiner panel for the center. I'll have the whole rear body section basically for the

66 GTB body. And it's going to be an interesting little project

So thanks for watching. It's Ray from ProShaper. Please remember to subscribe. Give us the likes and hit that little notification bell. It's Ray from ProShaper workshop in Charlton, Massachusetts. Thank you