Current Price: USD $2,000 – Source
Auction Ends: Saturday, June 20 at 10:12am PT
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These front and rear steel body panels and support frame were manufactured sometime after 1969 as factory spare replacement parts for Ferrari 365 GTB/4 models, and they have been stored since. The seller reports that the former owner of the panels was a lifetime Ferrari mechanic. These new old stock parts are now offered at no reserve in Costa Mesa, California.
The 365 GTB/4 debuted at the 1968 Paris Auto Salon with styling penned by Pininfarina’s Leonardo Fioravanti, featuring a raked fastback profile and a Kamm tail. Scaglietti-fitted bodywork incorporates a steel shell with aluminum hood, trunk, and door panels mounted on a steel-tube chassis with a fiberglass inner tub. The model’s early covered-headlight design was replaced by a revised fascia with pop-up headlights in 1971.
Per the seller, the front nose could be used to repair a damaged European-specification covered-headlight 365 GTB/4, as it has a small support lip at the top of the headlight opening area, which would support the brass strips that fastened the plexiglass headlight cover to the nose. If the front body panel were instead used to repair a later pop-up light 365 GTB/4 Daytona, the small support panel at the top of the light openings could be re-shaped as needed for pop-up headlights.
In 1969, Fiat bought a stake in Ferrari, and panels produced around that time sometimes have hand-painted Ferrari part numbers, Fiat part-number stickers, or both.
The rear body panel includes both rear fenders, the rear light panel, and the trunk floor. Like the front panel, the rear panel does not have side marker cutouts.
An inner front support framework is also included, and the seller notes that it was built by Scaglietti as a tertiary framework for the upper front fenders, hood hinges, radiator mounts, radiator fan mounts, bumper tubes, air horn mounting brackets, and fiberglass inner front wheel wells.
