1976 fiberglass 308GTB

Silver with a red interior is sweet. Any info on that car?
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Bah!!! Folks can say whatever thay want regarding the 308's. IMO, they're classics!! Ever more so when you see one in original condition.

 

Very nice I guess those glass 308 are perfect for those kind of weather.

 

There was a 76 glass car at Cavallino that was new....it won plaitnum. I started a conversation with the owner and he told me he had put about 25 miles on the car in the few months he had owned it. The car had like less than 2000 miles since new. It was then that I realized that my car would never be a show car. How could I compete with cars that go from a garage to trailer to shows. I never planned on winning anything but it was an eye opening experience for me.

 

I would like to see a glass car up close as well. One thing I would like to see is a closeup of the A pillar where the "seam" between the fiberglass and the steel is, just to know what it looks like.

Also, on a glass car, what parts are actually fiberglass? The hood and bonnet are still aluminum, right? What about the doors?

Birdman

 

Mike,
The pics you posted are fantastic and I was glad you took the time to take and post them, so please do not take my request for the A pillar shot as a complaint! I did not know that the bonnet would come off like that. Neat! I wonder why they stopped building them that way?

Birdman

 

I know the doors are glass. I have my door panels off as I working on the leather and those doors seem light as hell. Its a neat and simple design.

 

As far as I know, hood and bonnet are aluminium. But I could be wrong...
Ciao
Eugenio

 

Here's a detail of the seam in the passenger side A-pillar. The roof and A-pillars are fiberglass. So are the doors, front and rear clips and front valance. The rear deck is fiberglass as well. The front bonnet is aluminum and the rocker panels are steel. The center section of the rear valance is steel as well to withstand muffler heat.

Barry
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Very nice car, glad to see those pics.
completly amasing to see the estate of this car completly new 30 years later!!

great combinaison of color also.

 

beautiful car. this is what i am looking for but will accept a steel body. if anyone out there knows a nice one for sale let me know at [email protected] thanks george

 

The bonnets on non-glass cars are always steel, not aluminium. They are quite heavy so the quick release mechanism would be to fragile. Also the risk of dropping the steel bonnet, you would need 3 men to do it, 2 holding the bonnet and 1 pulling the release handles. Just speculating.

 

Ah, that makes sense!

TexasMike, thanks for the pic, that is great! Now I know what that seam looks like.

Birdman

 

Nice car , I looked at a black one a month ago. I was looking for one before I bought my 77 but couldn't find one then. Also this car would look better after it was painted. It is a non-descript color for my taste. Also the glass cars have glass doors but they are light and flimsey.

 

I was at a car show and heard an interesting version on why the first six months of 308 production were in glass. This fellows reason was that spy photos came out of the new Dino/308 and stopped demand for the old Bertone "Dino" style. For a stop gap measure to still sell the V-8 cars the racing dept. was used to make the new body out of glass till the tooling could be brought onto line for the steel body's which were the plan all along. This fellow clamed Ferrari was really pissed.
PS I always felt the Dry-sump, glass, 308 was the purest of that design, not the most sorted, but pure.. very nice , Fritz

 

What a gorgeous car

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