Rust repairs on C/4

I joke around saying that Pininfarina (PF) cars were built by adults while the people from the other firms who crafted bodies for Ferraris were children. PF designed cars are spectacular and they are built by craftsman

When looking deep inside a 250 PF Coupe you will see structural panels that look as though they were pressed on a die and actually work to strengthen the car. Open the door and look at the structure at the hinges, you see a typical type of panel with flanged holes and nicely tack welded to the frame. You also see bead rolled panels for strength and a car that is perfectly sealed so water cannot get into the car as well as properly vented to remove moisture from problem areas like the rocker panels and bottoms of the doors. I have rarely seen a super rusty PF built Ferrari unless it was treated very poorly.
Dinos, Daytonas, 275 GTB's are a whole other story as they are built with no regard toward lasting more than 5 years. Somehow, most have survived thanks to some factors that I will not get into right now. Anyhow, Scagiletti cars are a little more crude but were made in similar numbers to the PF line up so I cannot understand why they did not spend more time making a better car.

Our 365 GTC/4 project has made a fool of me, a car built by PF with all of the integrity that you would expect has some stupid design problems. Don't get me wrong, I realize that this is a 35 year old car but the problem area I am describing could have been thought out much better.

The area in question is the lower air intake for the front brakes. This is a beautiful detail and and well crafted piece of metal. The problem is that once the part was installed into the car there was no way to protect it with paint and the area was moisture trap as there was no way for the water to drain. Even though our car lived the majority of its life in Nevada, it doesn't take too many car washes to rot this area out.

We had to completely re-build this section but we designed it with the ability to apply both primer and paint as well as allow water to drain out. I do not want this car to come back to me in 5 years with rust bubbles forming!!