Ferrari 550 Maranello 1998 - Estado de Concurso ( 4 years in the sun & rain) )

Hello

After 4 years being in sun and rain parked in front of the previous owner , the first owner bought the car again and decided to restore the 550 to his original beauty.
The car at arrival a poor thing to see...








The interior was in a poor shape and give pity just to enter it.







The leather was almost ruined and had to be new from Ferrari and also the base is thicker and better quality than OEM.

Seats and steering wheel were restored.





Bumpers dismantled to be repaired and sprayed



Dash board dismantled and gear console.




Original Ferrari Leather.



Starting the detail after the car arrive from paintshop



Inside bonnet repaired and painted



Washed and clayed





Exaust polished



Paint correction initiated

Roof




Trunk , Ferrari lettering glued to the metal...








Rear Sideway








Bonnet












All corrected




Rear lights detailed




Some days after the paint correction was finished.





4 pics of the rimms







Time to install the bumpers...





Some details








Pedals



Swissvax Crystal Rock curing ( 2 layers )



550 showed already some dignity





Before and after




Interior done and ready as it should be

















Trim repaired and painted





Just love a grey car detailed





Weeks of time consumed but with a happy outcome











Zoom













In the Sun





















The End

Regards

Rui

 

Holy crap my friend! Now THAT is a fantastic job. Removing the dash? WOW! I can't believe someone did that to one of the best looking Ferrari's.

 

Fantastic!! that poor car, happy to see it back where it should be.

 

Talk about stepping it up, Europeans always pulling through with these amazing restaurative details. Absolutely love 'em.

 

Makes me smile to see this level of quality

 

That is insane. Brilliant work.

 

Rui you are a true Master Detailer! Thanks for Sharing your beautiful work!

 

Fantastic work... Really impressed with the dash removal/restoration... Any more detailed pics of that process?

 

Removing the dash....now that takes some balls!

 

Hello

For a perfect rebuild the dash was removed but i had the help from a leather specialist in classics , it´s easy to remove but safely is another thing.
It has many parts that can be easily broken .

The car was almost abandoned for 4 years in the sun and rain , hardly moved from the front backyard of the previous owner.
The new owner and original buyer when saw the car rebought him again and wanted to be good as new but maintaining the original parts as much it could be possible.

The buttons were all like gelly and Ferrari here asked 500€ for each one...well , all the buttons were restored and look very nice .

Thanks for your kind words

Regards

Rui

 

Very nice work. I hate that coating ferrari uses on their interior trim pieces. Working on a way to refinish those....

 

Miraculous!

 

Beautiful car now that it has been properly restored. Great work.

-Kody-

 

This is NOT a detail! It's a restoration! :lol: I'm kidding. This was a fantastic job. I'm still in awe of the Porsche, so this gets 2nd best detail of the year for me It's pathetic though, how a Ferrari owner can let the car get into such rubbish shape. It was in worse shape than most Civics I see around here

 

Really nice work Man

 

Outstanding, you guys go above and beyond a normal detail

 

great job. dont see those often. got 1-2 in my area

 

Wow!

A fantastic detail!

 

Excellent save on my personal favorite Ferrari ! Thanks for sharing

 

Awesome job bringing that Ferrari back to life! Looks like that 550 had the bad factory glue problem that affected many 550 dash boards, as they changed glue suppliers midway through production which prevented it from peeling like that.