Carbon bonnet Centennial GranTurismo Cabrio

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I believe someone was looking for one but my iPhone browsing experience didn’t let me search for it.
Anyway - there’s one at Targa Florio cars with a carbon bonnet, which I believe the chap in question was looking for…
 
Andyk

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Not a fan of that bonnet at all….Would look OK on the front of Max Power magazine.
 
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Andyk said:
Not a fan of that bonnet at all….Would look OK on the front of Max Power magazine.
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The photos are over-saturated, which makes a bit more Instagram that is helpful, but the bonnet's fine. Nothing that can't be painted. And, if I owned it, would be painted!
 
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Felonious Crud said:
The photos are over-saturated, which makes a bit more Instagram that is helpful, but the bonnet's fine. Nothing that can't be painted. And, if I owned it, would be painted!
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The only issue with painting is it is very hard to get a match due to the different surfaces. If you look at some of the 4 seaters Maserati even had issues as some colours you can see a slight difference in the light and even in the brochure I have the bonnet looks a slightly different shade. Seems to effect the metallic colours more. White doesn’t seem so bad. Either way I just couldn’t live with that unpainted bonnet especially in the Cab version as it just seems at odds with the rest of the car.
 
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Andyk said:
The only issue with painting is it is very hard to get a match due to the different surfaces. If you look at some of the 4 seaters Maserati even had issues as some colours you can see a slight difference in the light and even in the brochure I have the bonnet looks a slightly different shade. Seems to effect the metallic colours more. White doesn’t seem so bad. Either way I just couldn’t live with that unpainted bonnet especially in the Cab version as it just seems at odds with the rest of the car.
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Yeah, it just doesn't work on what should be such an elegant sports-tourer.

Good point about the match. You'd need a good paint shop to get that right. It was nigh-on impossible to get the bumper on my Grigio Alfieri GTS matched with the wings and bonnet as the latter were metal whilst the former was plastic. The way the light works just gets it a bit wrong.
 
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Having seen a GC in Rosso Magma with a carbon bonnet in the flesh, it actually looks a lot better than in the photos. Especially over exposed ones like in the pics.

That said, it's top money for one.
 
gb-gta

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Everything is top money at the moment !

I think I’d source a normal bonnet, have it painted to match the rest of the car and store the carbon one in bubble wrap somewhere.
 
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Andyk said:
The only issue with painting is it is very hard to get a match due to the different surfaces. If you look at some of the 4 seaters Maserati even had issues as some colours you can see a slight difference in the light and even in the brochure I have the bonnet looks a slightly different shade. Seems to effect the metallic colours more. White doesn’t seem so bad. Either way I just couldn’t live with that unpainted bonnet especially in the Cab version as it just seems at odds with the rest of the car.
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It's odd how different they look on photos. I was concerned about the paint match when I first saw pics of mine but it's very difficult to tell the difference when you see the car.
 
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The issues with paint match on different surfaces come from the natural static electricity charge which each base material has. This affects the way the paint bonds, particularly the metal flakes and the effect differs depending on the amount of metallic and/or pearlescant in the paint. The only way to fix it is to fool the eye by mixing different paint for each surface that appears the same when applied, but that's not at all easy and is trial an error. Usually, a camera makes it look worse than in the flesh, especially in bright sunlight. Non-metallic paint solves the problem!
 
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gb-gta said:
Everything is top money at the moment !

I think I’d source a normal bonnet, have it painted to match the rest of the car and store the carbon one in bubble wrap somewhere.
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The normal bonnet is carbon fibre anyway on the Stradale and GC MC, it was only the 2 seat Stradale that had a steel bonnet with two scoops for the air outlet, rather than the one scoop in, two out on the later Stradale
 
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StuartW said:
The normal bonnet is carbon fibre anyway on the Stradale and GC MC, it was only the 2 seat Stradale that had a steel bonnet with two scoops for the air outlet, rather than the one scoop in, two out on the later Stradale
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All this talk about 1 scoop or 2 is making want an ice cream in this nice warm weather…

However, I wouldn’t mind a standard GC steel bonnet painted in magma with no scoops, if it fits, and the struts are strong enough.
I guess the scoops are not required for cooling as the engine is pretty much the same.
 
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StuartW said:
The normal bonnet is carbon fibre anyway on the Stradale and GC MC, it was only the 2 seat Stradale that had a steel bonnet with two scoops for the air outlet, rather than the one scoop in, two out on the later Stradale
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2 seat bonnet is composite, just not carbon composite as I understand it. It’s certainly not steel.
 
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