Look what Harry just posted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7Qr1uJyxg4&feature=push-u&attr_tag=owhOrQ5BT7cgI900-6 I love this guy!
Cool. I'm happy to see him explain more about why he sold it in the first place. He has given the impression in the past that he disliked the 308 when he owned it. The enthusiasm he has for the carbbed 308 is clear in this video and he explains it's just the value proposition of the vetroresina he dislikes compared to other Ferraris. Particularly compared to the testarossa he traded across to. He does great videos. Regards David
What he seems to be saying is that for the money commanded by a pedigreed Vetro car, you could buy a very nice steel car and have money left over to have the engines on the yacht rebuilt.
And if I bought a used Audi A3 for even less money than a steel 308 I can go out for dinner monthly with a hot blonde. i should have just stolen a skateboard and saved all kinds.
He corner-weighed it full of fluids at 2,750lbs. Sounds about right; 300lbs less than a steel GTB, minus US heavy bumpers and GTS frame reinforcement, makes it 500lbs less than a US GTS. That's got to be fun!
Great video! Love the number plate connection fact and the sound of those carbs. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Yea but DeMuro never packed a folding bicycle and outboard motor into a Testarossa and did an 1100 mile road trip.
I have 78 USA steel car - no cats and a Tubi. My car's induction sounds nothing like that car - much more subdued. I assume different cams?
...sorry, but your difference of 300 lbs is just very wrong. Our aussie members, Carl888 among them, have actually weighted two cars, glass and steel, one after the other, on the same scale, and the difference of weight, all conditions (fluids, etc...) being equal was about 50 lbs between a glass car and a steel one. The figure indicated for the weight of the glass car (euro) on the certification paper filed by the factory with the Italian department of transportation in the summer of 1975 for the road homologation is 1245 kilos (2740 lbs). The steel euro car is usually given at about 1270 kilos (2.800lbs). Once more, the stupid figure of "a difference of about 300 lbs" between a glass and the steel car is the consequence of the factory having not corrected such crazy values of 1090 kgs or 1150 kgs in the press for the glass cars. Value that the amateurs journalists who did not their homework correctly were quoting, and some even less amateurish journalists are still quoting today. The french reference magazine of the period, "Sport Auto", correctly weighted the glass car when introduced to the press at 1245 kilos. Just as the correct power of the engine is not 255 hp (which were SAE figures) but 230 (DIN). But of course, 1090 kgs for 255hp looked, and still looks, better than 1245 for 230hp... The difference of handling and performance between a standard "euro" glass car and a standard "euro" steel car is actually negligible, if any. Now, if we speak of a Michelotto... Rgds
The difference in the 76-77 cams is dramatic in comparison to the 78-79. I had 76 cams installed in my 79 which has the same cams as your 78. From a sound perspective, not sure that I noticed much of a difference, both sounded great to me. Maybe they stuffed a microphone down the air intake to enhance the sound in the video.
You beat me to it. I'm working on figuring out a good mic/GoPro rigging, but with the sound deadening removed from the airbox, and a period Ansa "true" 4-out exhaust, it sounds wild!
