Ferrari 250 GT Lusso Suspension

If you take the forged steel control arms from a Ferrari 250 and tap them together, they will ring like a tuning fork for minutes. They are such beautiful parts because of the shape, the strength and the metalurgy. There are a number of things that I can critisize about the overall build quality of these Ferraris but one thing that I am consistently blown away by is the quality of steel that they used.

We convert many driveshafts on Ferrari 250/330’s because the screw used to grease the rear joint is hard to remove so they were never lubricated and are worn. Because of this we have to cut down the forged steel to clean up the surface or to adapt the flanges to common type U-Joints. The steel that was used is so hard that it kills even the best carbide cutter. Truly amazing steel.

Here is a photograph of the dirty old front suspension on the 250 Lusso which has been sprayed black some time ago. I never understood why the suspension components were a mix of nickel plate and black paint, why not all the same finish but as you can see from another 250 GT that we have here, the spindle, sway bar and other random parts are black while the rest is nickel finish. When we get all of the parts back I will shoot a photo because when the parts are all together the combination is beautiful.

Correct finishes on Ferrari 250 suspension

Front suspension on Ferrari 250 GT