308 Personal Price Tracking Data

Otherwise stated, a 308 is $30k ± condition.

 

Maybe add a "Weeks (months?) on Market" column as is used in real estate tracking. It would be interesting to see whether "hold-outs" gain anything. When I was shopping for my 308, I saw many ads for 308s that seem to be perpetually listed for sale on line with above-market prices by sellers apparently trolling for an uniformed buyer. I know of at least four 308s in LA that have been bouncing between Craig's List, eBay/Autotrader at very high prices for six months or more with no price reductions.

For what it's worth, when I was looking for my Ferrari, I quickly abandoned using Craig's List ads for exotics; in So CA it was a swamp of e-mail scams and "dealers", a euphemism for used car lots.

 

Geat data collection. Any data for 328?

Ace

 

Very interesting data....thanks for posting.

 

Looks "about right" except that the 'ask' on the 1978 is a market anomoly.

The carbed cars from 1978 and 1979 are CAT equipped cars and are not worth more than the earlier NON CAT '75- 77s.

They are IMO, one of the "most likely to go up in flames" examples, and also down on power to the earlier cars, due to revised camshaft profiles.

You don't have enough examples of the early cars (they ARE 'keepers") but if you threw in the few early 'glass cars for sale now in Europe (one beater, and yet one by the designer HIMSELF at 100K Euro, you'd really have the total picture!

I have been watching it about 25 years.

 

IIRC about $42K would get you the beater 'glass car in Europe, and after a lengthy and expensive resto, you'd have the "top of the heap"....a dry sump glass 308GTB.

It's Prugna tho....

 

No worries, at this point a lot of people probably do.

But it's a fine legal point (aside from the different cams) to be a legal NON CAT car.
They can never take that away, although California wants the air pumps in place and working.

To deCAT a car is still technically Pollution Equipment Tampering, and a violation of the (Federal) law.
At the State level it's rarely enforced or even caught....

So as I started shopping years ago I focused on the early steel 77s.

The odd thing is that NON CAT North American 'glass cars (wet sump engines) still pop up from time to time, and if you are ready I know of past deals (not recently but it's a 'down" market currently) where $35 - $40K would have done it.

 

Really nice work. I'd love to see similar for the UK.

I doubt if all the values are evenly spread. With Ferraris, you'll get outliers like glass, carb, poor condition that could skew your average badly.

You might want to calculate average with median rather than mean. This will get 50% of values above and 50% below.

 

The early '80s cars went really down on power, it wasn't any greater production numbers per year really, but 180HP was just not enough to support the appearance and reputation that Ferrari had enjoyed up to that point.

 

How bout the dry sump cars? ;-)

 

www.mobile.de should have enough data to get some meaningful statistics on the other side of the pond. www.xe.com for latest forex rates.

 

I don't think it matters much whether you get a 2v or a 4v or a carb. All 308s are now well down on horses through sheer age. These are now vintage machines and should be treated as such. I'm not saying don't enjoy them. They still pull their weight and are an absolute joy to rev high and pull through the gears.

And never mind horsepower; on all sorts of levels like handling, our cars are obsolete and can be beaten my any number of standard modern production cars. But I didn't get mine for its bhp rating. Or its bhp per ton rating. Or its 0-60 figures.

I bought my 308 because it's the most beautiful car design I've ever seen and contains a vintage engine that's a joy to hear and feel. And it has a tractor-like gearbox that's a challenge to use well but when you get the hang of it, it's bliss.

I don't expect or want to beat the guy next to me at the lights in his Subaru/Ford/Honda whatever.

 

I just found a flywheel for mine, off an '80 GTS.

It doesn't show HALF the wear (and no cracks) of the one that is coming off!

 

Are you sure? I loves 308's but there are prettier cars out there and whenever I read a comment like that I get images in my head of cars ill never be able to afford unless Donald Trump has me in his will. The yellow 308 was mine, I loved it still do but its no Monza or Miura. My vote is that purple car.
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Yellow doesn't do the 308 justice, imo. And it's an insect magnet. The Monza and its ilk don't come into play - it's a racer, not a road car.

I love most Gandini designs and the Miura, Khamsin and original Countach are all heavenly. The Miura is often quoted as prettiest. Well, maybe from the front, but really the rear is nothing to shout about at all either in pictures or in the flesh.

For me the 308 still beats them, regardless of price. And it's even better in the flesh

 

Its still a car and you said car and its street legal.

 

Actually, it's the 2Vi cars which were made in fewer numbers than either the early carb cars or the later QV models.

Someone here can post the exact production numbers of each flavor, I'd bet.

Cheers - DM