Poor poor Ferrari...

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Makes sad Panda sad...

What the hell happened to the dashboard? I saw a close to new looking 328 GTS this weekend for $28k. The extra $10k would be well spent, me thinks.

ouch!

i like his line "paint looks good from 10 feet away..." :rollmyeyes:

What is the lighting bolt button for?

Not sure who "Tom Shelleck" is but he must have been a pimpin fool

AndreGT6 wrote: What is the lighting bolt button for?

DRS- lowers the rear wing when the guy in front of you needs passed.

Curse you B'dazzle.

What did they do to that front end

I didn't read all he had to say about it but it looks like the front end was sanded for a repaint. Yeah, that's sad

I worked @ a Ferrari dealership when those were built. Adjusting the valves on that front bank is a lot of fun

In reply to aussiesmg:

Rear looks odd, too. Almost looks like a glass body, but it shouldn't be.

If not for the general oddness of the body and interior, it might be a decent deal. But it just looks like it was made in a back alley in Mumbai.

Anyone else notice that the emblem in the steering wheel horn button has been rotated counter-clockwise so the prancing horse is now running to the left?

aussiesmg wrote: What did they do to that front end

It actually looks like both front and rear bumpers have been removed. Possibly in prep for repaint, considering that right front fender.

The weird fiberglass-looking dashboard, I have no idea about that. Looks like the inside of a kiddie car from the carnival - you know, the kind with 4 steering wheels.

what about the 4 carb choke levers under the ignition??

I wouldn't even give him half of what he is asking. Putting it right would cost more than buying a good one to begin with. Now pay him $5 to $8k and make it a track car, that would be a different story!

I think the rear valance has also been redone. I think I know who the previous owner was however:

So many things look wrong... Am I making stuff up if the distant recesses of my memory hint at replicas with actual Ferrari engines?

Once upon a time, a 308 might have been expensive enough to make that a less-insane proposition?

i don't know, but the engine is one of the very things that make Ferrari's expensive, so I'm thinking not.

I'd buy it to save the poor thing...

Wow... how to make your real Ferrari look like a kit-car... I'd open the rear hatch and expect to see a GM V6...

Did Ferraris do horizontally opposed engines ever? I thought they were all the long ways in.

mndsm wrote: Did Ferraris do horizontally opposed engines ever? I thought they were all the long ways in.

The 308 (and its decendents) have transverse engines.

The more I study the real 308, and this car, I think somethings seriously wrong. The nose is not correct (aside from the bumpers missing, the slope to the nose is all wrong) the mirrors are wrong, there almost appears to be a crease about 2/3 the way up the hood... if it's a real one, that things got an aftermarket nose on it for sure. And a E36 M3ty one at that. Looks to be as tho ol boy bought himself some of a ferrari and tried to make all of one with crap he had laying around.

I'm gonna call kit car on this one.

Maybe a wrecked/burned out 308 that was repaired with a kit car body and a bunch of fiberglass?

That would explain the 308 engine and plates with the very odd front and rear ends.

-Rob

rob_lewis wrote: Maybe a wrecked/burned out 308 that was repaired with a kit car body and a bunch of fiberglass? That would explain the 308 engine and plates with the very odd front and rear ends. -Rob

That's my guess.