My PF number is 682, and it is burned in my brain just like #5053, my
330 America's Ferrari Serial number. Most Ferrari owners can rattle off
their serial number(s) like their telephone number to anyone who asks.
Thankfully, I own an old Ferrari so the number is only four digits long.
I wonder if Maranello owners can remember their SNs?
I've seen "682" written and stamped everywhere on my car, so I was
bit surprised to see "679" on these seat pans. I double checked the other
one, and found the "incorrect" number for my car. What did this mean? I've
concluded that since these seat pans had the same color leather as the
rest of the car that had "682" on their parts, it was a mistake made at
the Pininfarina factory. Somebody probably grabbed the wrong pans and installed
them on my car.
Just out of curiosity, and with nothing better to do, I looked up which
car was supposed to get "679's" seat pans, and it turns out I knew the
car! SN 5047 should have gotten my seat pans, three cars before mine.
Almost two years ago, I saw #5047 in a shop in Connecticut. Jerry Curtis
was selling the shell because he bought it without a drivetrain or suspension.
It finally shipped to England in the Fall of '02. If I had known then what
I learned today, I would have checked to see which seats that car had,
but this car is probably long been dismantled. sniff, sniff...
After I made the foam seat cushions, I was ready to cover them with
leather. Frank told me to use a hole punch at the end of my "pie cuts"
to keep the leather from tearing when it is stretched. A good tip, but
one I'm not sure if I was supposed to share with the world!
One seat pan was completed. It looks pretty good considering I had
to make the cushion from scratch! If you look at the top picture of this
journal entry, you can see a brown glue spread out over the original cushion.
This glue kept the leather in place and gave these seats a nice indent,
but Frank didn't think it was necessary to use so much glue. Firmly fixing
the whole leather panel to the foam makes the leather stiff, and unnatural.
According to Frank, leather slides, stretches and shrinks and needs a certain
amount of movement to what it wants to do. With his experience, he showed
me a way to firmly attach the leather to the foam without using so much
glue, and from the looks of it, it works well!
Next time, it will be to cover the second seat cushion!