how many 348's made

Approximately 3,000 348 tb; 4,200 348 ts; 1,200 Spiders. The later GTB and GTS weren't imported to the U.S., AFAIK.

Will defer to the 348 gurus on the sequence, but IIRC Ferrari numbered straight through -- i.e., they didn't do what Porsche did and start a new range of numbers for the new model year.

 

300 htp
348 TB built 2894 ex. (s/n 81617-96679)
348TS built 4228 ex. (s/n 81651-96964)


in1993 La 348 Spider. Engine 320 hp (312 U.S.)
La 348 Spider built 1090 ex. (s/n 94504-99947)

in 1993 Ferrari 348GTB et GTS.
348GTB built 222 ex. (s/n 96655-99697)
348GTS built 218 ex. (s/n 96824-99197)

56 348 Competizione (s/n 96064-99143) 360 to 550 hp
and 80 348Series Speciale for USA (s/n 92812-95820

Here you go

 

It would be nice to find out how many are left ....

 

And now a hard one! This has become an interesting question for me and I'm getting more and more curious every day...

Considering the manufacturing dates and VIN sequence numbers:

Should the (50+6) GT/C's be deducted from the (222+218) GT/B and GT/S?

Or should only subtract 50 GT/C's? Or none?

 

I have info that states a total of 1146 348 Spiders were made from 1993 to 1995 Rusty.

Im sorry I cant tell you how many were made in 1994. Im good, but im not that good!

 

This is the data from Keiths' Book "Original Ferrari V8"
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This is excellent.

 

I like that last line...

"Two 348 GT/C-LM derivatives specifically built for the 1994 Le Mans 24-hour race had chassis numbers 97553 and 98997."​

Doesn't Sy (angelis) have the engine from one of those cars going into his road-going 348? Here's a link: Building a 348 Le Mans Race car for the road It's a super thread.

I wonder which chassis Sy's engine was plugged into? Were the two aforementioned 348s works team cars or were they the Simpson Racing entries, one of which had Sy's engine in it?

All the best,
Andrew.

 

Original Ferrari V8 by Keith Bluemel

A must have!!!

Fred

 

+1million

 

IIRC Sy's engine was in the crate and has never been fired.

Also...Beware...some of the numbers from Kieths book are not correct. According to the data I have, there were 100 SS's made in the 1993 model year and another 15 in 1994. Note that the SS was a FNA mod performed after the cars were shipped on the 1993 model years only. My guess is that not all of the original 100 received kevlar seats incorrectly suggesting they were not SS. The second set of 15 were modified in Maranello.

 

Keiths book ""limited to 100 cars but only 80 were built"

I thought the CF seats were standard and some buyers deleted them due to "discomfort" (Read: Big American Posteriors)

http://www.nwrfca.org/faq/348versions.htm (12 1992, 88 1993)

Lane: Where did you get your data?

How many SS cars can we account for? (with and without CF seats.)

I saw a spreadsheet somewhere but there were a lot of gaps in it

Mine #9, 93523, Feb 1992 Production, CF seats, Lip , etc

 

I have an aquaintance that worked for FNA at the time. He was a part of the mod process and was the designer of the SS dash plaque.

I have a photo of the SS plate of car #98 and almost purchased it until I found some problems. I find it extremely hard to believe that nameplate #98 would have been installed before any previous numbered plate was.

I've personally seen 2 1994 model SS plates mounted on cars.

The spreadsheet you refer to presently has 17 holes in the set of 100 (1993) and 9 holes in the set of 15 (1994). The inverse of this data tells us we know the Serial numbers on a total of 89 total Serie Speciale's. Granted its not perfect evidence but what evidence is available that states only 80 were built?
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who has number 100 out of 100 serie speciale's

 

Wrong. The crankshaft counterweights are dented and the combustion chamber is pitted, usually indicating that a loose conrod already flew around... Sy is aware of it...

 

I went to the thread and saw the more recent posts regarding the apparent use of the engine. There were previous statements made in the original thread that suggested the engine was never fired...so I do recall correctly but more information is available now that the engine is being dismantled and inspected.

I do however appreciate the sarcasm

 

No, mine comes from the Simpson 348 which was chasis number 95450. Ferrari gave Simpson one complete 348 and 5 extra engines. My engine is one of the six.

No, it's been raced in the past. May or may not have been raced at Le Mans (no way to confirm either way) and then raced in other vehicles in the later years. it was rebuilt over 2 years ago and has not been started since.

 

Those numbers sound right. Seems like my 95 Spider will be worth something in the next couple of years. Oh Yea!!

 

FWIW mine is 99613 and I've only found 2 95 Spiders with higher VIN's

 

I am 99699

 

wow thats a late one