Fiat Dino Forum (FDF)

Well I learnt a lesson today! My coating guy is infact using Zinkagem ( Portuguese) It is the same electrolytic process as galvanizing, except the zinc base metal is more refined. He does 3 colours, silver, yellow and blue. Each glean like diamonds. So I have decided to keep all the colours that the...

Very interesting, I’m in Portugal and I know what galvanizing looks like. I’m a civil engineer and have been close to galvanizing all my career.
What I’m looking at is something that looks exactly like cad plating.
I will ask the company when I pick up and post pics.
Michael

Thanks Agnatus, I have a selection of fasteners both Fiat and non OEM that are cad plated silver and gold. I was led to believe that somewhere around the start of 1968 most coating was the gold colour. I don’t believe anything would have need originally “galvanized” is a zinc process that does not h...

Hi Agnatus
Hopefully somone can help on the strips.
I have a question regarding the colour of the cad plating. My 2.0 Spider is # 665. All the plating is the silver colour. Do or dies anyone else know when they started using the gold cad plating
Michael

2.0 Spider #665 I’m starting to send out all the miscellaneous metal parts for stripping and recoating. The chrome and stainless are easy. But does anyone know if the following where originally plain cadmium plate or painted. The brackets for the front and rear bumpers are painted black on my car. B...

Thanks Thomas,
I’ll investigate Carblast.
Michael

Ola all, I’m currently stripping my ‘67 Spider # 665. From everything I’ve read and from watching Mark Devaneys comparison, my car is a series 2. I don’t know what car Agnatus has, possibly a late 2.4 or maybe somebody modified his cable controls. The photos below show the cable control just removed...

:shock: That’s car bodies of course, I’m not “Goldfinger” ( for the young members, check James Bond, who incidentally drove a Coupe in a Bond movie). I am looking for a company on mainland Europe the does whole body chemical stripping. The 3 stages remove paint, filler and undercoating a finally rus...

Moved from Technical section. bought my Spider in the USA after it was stored for 35 years. We shipped it with us to Portugal were moved too two years ago. It finally arrived this last January. The car hadn’t been run since 1989, to get it matriculated in Portugal I had to take it to an inspection s...

Is there anything wrong with the two you have , besides appearance?
If it’s just appearance take them to a chrome plating shop and have them electropolished.
They will come back like new, I had the SS trim strips from the sills done. Not a single ripple left and gleaming.
M