My car had 16K on it when I bought it, just run in and very healthy. I sold it to John H, who drove it hard for a couple of years, until it dropped a valve while he was delivering it to its next owner Image Unavailable, Please Login
Beautiful car IanB. I love PP's glass car. Missed the boat on buying a red/tan 308 myself. And that's some bad luck there in regards to it dropping a valve when John H was delivering it to the next owner. But I guess better off it happening to you, than being known as a **** for selling a "dodgey" car to the next guy. I go out of my way to make sure the cars I buy and sell are 100% spot on as I don't want anyone coming back. Spent $1500 on Nicole's Statesman the week before I sold it on new struts and shocks, major service, windscreen and tyres just to make sure it was perfect for the next owner who gave me $9000 cash for it with 10 months rego. Have seen him once or twice over the last month and he is extremely happy with the car. If he's happy, then Pappy is happy.
Driving down to that Rally i had one of the best runs of my life. Dad and I were in Horse and John Mclean, Trevor Bassett and Lewis were in Lewis's 365 (car in the photo, which Dad had sold to Lewis's Dad!) I timed one stage which consisted of fast straights but then also a lot of 2nd gear corners going up and down a range somewhere in NSW and we covered 160km's in a bit less than an hour. John Mclean was using every last RPM of the V12 to stay in front and every inch of the road so I couldn't pass him! On the straights he was just inching away and i saw 7,500 in top a couple of times. Ended up having to go the long way around him coming into a 2nd gear corner! Ahhhhh memories. How can that be 27 years ago????
It didn't happen to him, it happened to the next owner, so I take it the sodium valves weren't known about then ?
I just remembered, that poor car pulled 9300 in 4th gear going down the back straight at Darlington Park ...... it was a steep downhill for those that remember it. I remember the first time the club did Darlington, the lunch break was all full of bravado about the track being "interesting" when in truth it was ****ing dangerous due to the huge number of trees lining the track, if you had a lose then you hit a tree, although the F40 that turned up that day was very lucky , it left the track at the left hand turn over a blind crest that was edgy in the GT4 but would have been frightening at the speeds the F40 could pull, .... the F40 lifted OFF the track as turn was applied for the left turn over the crest which made the F40 rotate in mid air and spear off the track towards the trees ... stopped metres from the trees Saw him at the Ferrari dealership the next day, asked him what was going through his mind at the time ..... "please don't let me die today" was his reply ..... he's a damn good driver but an F40 will be doing speeds other Ferrari drivers could only dream about back then
Nope, can't remember if he was there or not. He passed away in 2005 so may not have been too good then.
He was there one Darlington track day, had a walking stick to get around, I remember him tucking the stick in Horse after he got in the passenger seat
Yes and yes. That was decades before 3M invented stone chip film. I have pictures of your car on the highway in torrential rain with great rooster tails of water coming out the back of it. That was just what we wanted prior to entering the first day concour *sigh*
Great times back then. If you tried that today they would plaster you all over current affair. I have been digitizing photos of my 308 this week. Some of the photos were taken 38 YEARS AGO and it seems like yesterday to me I am going to put some up in the 308 section to show people what these cars REALLY looked like when they were 1 month old. That should create some havoc amongst the Pebble Beach restoration brigade
Ìt caused havoc at the 2007 Canberra rally ... remember the shiny cam cover issue ? That was why I hate concour, it can be very soul destroying
Who can pick which which year this National Rally was....don't look at the date stamp as its misleading? Image Unavailable, Please Login
