Massimo recently took a trip to Italy. During his stay he visited old friends on of which owns a restoration shop for exotic autos. I'll let the video do the rest of the talking, but you're in for a real treat as one of the cars has never been seen outside of this shop. There were only 4 and the other 3 were lost forever. The language you here is a dialect, just about every town has it's version. Massimo's is a blend of Italian and French.

Visiting An Italian Restoration Shop In Italy

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Vintage Machines For Vintage Automobiles

Last month we took in a 1971 Maserati Ghibli. In order to correctly set the distributor with dual points, Massimo searched for and found an old (1962) distributor machine thanks to our neighbors, Keith and Jimmie of Special Cars Only. One of their customers told them that he had one sitting in the back of his garage. This was wonderful news to us!

2 days later the gentlemen showed up with the "Sun Distributor Machine." 

and we were shocked! It looked like it had sat on the bottom of the ocean over the better part of a decade! Rusted and worn with parts missing and/or broken and no electric motor, it was in shambles. Massimo ended up having to explain to the Maserati owner that he would be unable to properly set the timing on his car until this old machine was repaired, than of course, Massimo rolled up his shirtsleeves and went to work.

After much cursing and troubleshooting improvements, about a week later he was able to get the antique machine running. He than used it to synchronize the 2 sets of points at 45 degrees precision. After a complete valve adjustment, timing set up, and carburetor setting, he was able to return the car to the owner. Although the client got his car back later than expected, it is running wonderfully now which made it well worth the wait.

With the addition of this machine we are now able to offer setting of any distributor, dual point on old Maserati, Ferrari, Alfa and Lamborghini's.

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The Month Of Lamborghini!

Greetings for the new year 2009! Probably like us, you can't forget 2008 fast enough! But it's over and now we move on hopefully to more promising things. For us, seems like January 2009 is dedicated to Lamborghinis! Two of the first new year projects? A Lamborghini Mucielago and a Lamborghini Diablo, stunning automobiles! The Mucielago, which you see in the picture above, has an e-gear shifter (pedal shifter) that got stuck in 3rd gear when one of the oil lines blew up. Unfortunately in this case the entire engine assembly must be removed to replace the the steel braided line, a time consuming and difficult repair, but an interesting one none the less. The second is a beautiful Lamborghini Diablo, (the red one in the photos on our site) in for a major repair as well, it needed a clutch which also required an engine assembly removal. The Diablo will be the first one out the door for the new season.

So far the first month of 2009 has been very exciting and it's a real treat and a pleasure to work on these 2 exquisite automobiles!

We've got a lot of great engine photos and beauty shots of both cars on our site.

The Lamborghini Mucielago set only on, Flickr

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