What’s under your front bonnet?

[sithot]

Not inebriated. It's how it was done.

The application of "black" on the firewall and other areas isn't ever perfect. There are no lines drawn to stay within and in the case of the firewall nobody sees it once the soundproofing is applied.
(I hear it's awful hard to go over a perfect 356 underbody with pitch)

FWIW, "Made by Hand" shows a worker is applying "rust proofing" with a mop and bucket of pitch!

Below are photos of the 356SC that won Gmund Gold at the Boca Raton Porsche Parade in 2019. Done the way the factory sent it originally.

[sithot]

All the shock mounts I've seen are generally sloppy. Note the runs in the paint on the chassis number. This is a 1974 911. Standard Operating Procedure .

[ejboyd5]

Joking apart these little changes would’ve required changes to the press tools that make them. Such tooling can be very expensive. Whilst they would need to continue make panels for repair inventory curious timing to do the tweak so soon before unless the tweaked panels were carried over or mandated for safety. Will have been done with a documented rationale and with business case, I suppose ?

Perhaps the indentations were added to provide a degree of stiffening to the inner panels.

[Biancaneve]

Biancaneve, late 1973 S ... the interior under the bonnet has never been repainted ...

[LongRanger]

Some other threads . . .

Luggage compartments . . .
https://www.early911sregistry.org/fo...highlight=Show

. . . smuggler's boxes . . .
https://www.early911sregistry.org/fo...highlight=Show

. . . front slam panels . . .
https://www.early911sregistry.org/fo...highlight=slam

. . . and OG Cars . . .
https://www.early911sregistry.org/fo...highlight=Show






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