Considering a 308, what will £40K buy ?

[Slippydiff]

Behemoth said:

Not just QV, but injected cars, too. If you're very bothered, it can be swapped out with some bracketry fiddling and a fibreglass replacement for about £250 from eg Superperformance. The quality of the rest of the car is far more important than alterable cosmetic minutiae, imho. I'd be more upset by the silly wing shields.

Yep, I would be bothered I guess all these "little cosmetic bits" start adding up. But I agree the basic car needs to have corrosion free panels, decent service history, a bill for a recent clutch would be good too.

This car has had it's front end painted (there's obvious overspray evident on the satin black paint inside the front lid itself) I'm guessing there are few original paint cars out there ?

[gmarsh]

And are there US 'marker' lights on the front wing(s)?

[johnnyreggae]

Yes - looks like a US
import - 5 mph bumpers etc

[rubystone]

They are US spec parts. My QV certainly didn't have them....

[Behemoth]

rubystone said:

They are US spec parts. My QV certainly didn't have them....

Here's a right hooker with them:

http://www.hiltonandmoss.com/cardesc/ferrari-308-g...

The front repeaters can be changed but the holes don't line up so you'd have a bit of filling to do. Again, these things are cosmetic. The general state of the car is far more important.

You'd be hard pushed to find any 30+ year old car that didn't have some new paint put on it somewhere sometime in it's life unless it was a garage queen. And if it was a garage queen, I'd be far more concerned.

Recent clutch? Not really. Recent maintenance, yes. But not simply fresh belts. That's an auctioneer's hoodwink. A clear sign of regular care for the past 3 years or so is the most important thing imho.

[Kenneg02]

My euro QV has the plastic trim parts, it's black so it doesn't look too bad. The front indicators are rectangle on QVs and I think all injection cars but I may be wrong. Not the best looking but they are a lot smaller than the US repeaters.

[Kenneg02]

My euro QV has the plastic trim parts, it's black so it doesn't look too bad. The front indicators are rectangle on QVs and I think all injection cars but I may be wrong. Not the best looking but they are a lot smaller than the US repeaters.

[Behemoth]

Kenneg02 said:

The front indicators are rectangle on QVs and I think all injection cars but I may be wrong. Not the best looking but they are a lot smaller than the US repeaters.

afaik the US rectangular repeaters are the same size. Because they appear on both the front and rear wings, maybe they seem more prominent.

[Kenneg02]

Behemoth said:

afaik the US rectangular repeaters are the same size. Because they appear on both the front and rear wings, maybe they seem more prominent.

I always thought that the US ones are bigger and sit more flush with the body. They must also have been fitted to US spec carb cars as the whole federalised thing was in the 70's? Might/probably am wrong but I remember seing a Bora with the bumpers and side repeaters and it was a shocker.

[Jonty355]

theadman said:

I'll be really surprised if Slades achieve the asking price for their car - but stranger things have happened.

Looks like that one at Slades garage has sold already. Wonder what it went for?

[SimonMorris]

Jonty355 said:

Looks like that one at Slades garage has sold already. Wonder what it went for?

Was the Slades car a glass/ fibre body one?

[Jonty355]

SimonMorris said:

Jonty355 said:

Looks like that one at Slades garage has sold already. Wonder what it went for?

Was the Slades car a glass/ fibre body one?

Not sure now. I think so, or may have just been a carb car.

[Nmj]

SimonMorris said:

Was the Slades car a glass/ fibre body one?

not at that money it wasn't !!!!!!!! steel carb car

[Andy 308GTB]

Jonty355 said:

SimonMorris said:

Jonty355 said:

Looks like that one at Slades garage has sold already. Wonder what it went for?

Was the Slades car a glass/ fibre body one?

Not sure now. I think so, or may have just been a carb car.

One of the last steel carb'd cars
http://www.sladesgarage.com/ferrari-308-gtb-carbur...

[johnnyreggae]

Nice to see a properly used car leading the market - best part of seventy grand for nearly seventy thousand miles

[SimonMorris]

Nmj said:

not at that money it wasn't !!!!!!!! steel carb car

Why does it state in the advert then that it is one of 154 RHD cars- there were 154 RHD fibre body 308 made...... It's not clear.

I am hoping you are right though as I have a fibre body 308 and am interested in the values being as high as possible.....

[Nmj]

SimonMorris said:

Why does it state in the advert then that it is one of 154 RHD cars- there were 154 RHD fibre body 308 made...... It's not clear.

I am hoping you are right though as I have a fibre body 308 and am interested in the values being as high as possible.....

badly written advert although it does say "UK" , its definitely a steel car Simon

[Jonty355]

Would be interesting to know how much it sold for then. Was advertised at £69,950. So what we reckon, £65k mark?

[Behemoth]

Nmj said:

not at that money it wasn't !!!!!!!! steel carb car

And not in that year is wasn't !!!!!!!! fibreglass tubs stopped production years before.

This was the crossover period between carb and FI. iirc, the FI was sold at a premium (and the GTS was pricier than the GTB, too).

[AndrewE]

Nmj said:

badly written advert although it does say "UK" , its definitely a steel car Simon

Definitely a Steel car - look at the rear number plate - it has a recess around it, glass cars don't
Still nice to see a 60,000 + mile car not slated for being high mileage

But i note it has the clock/oil temp gauge on the centre console. Didn't think they had those on teh carbed cars. Mine is an 81 which has them down by my right knee

Edited by AndrewE on Monday 10th March 09:34