Can you please help me identify this car. Is this factory or custom. The car has a large rear spoiler and turbo ducts its a 1981 308 with it looks like custom work Thank you, http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=2114102&stc=1&d=14395236607/Users/lamborghini/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Mail Downloads/D3725B66-E858-41F0-81FA-197779110D8B/IMG_2809.JPG Image Unavailable, Please Login
Car has components from several era's. As a 1981, they have added '83-'85 qv hood slats. Has naca ducts from 208 turbo. Lower rockers look aftermarket added side sills and are painted body color instead of being matte black all around. 328 Wheels (are chromed) and front and rear bumpers from a 328. Mirrors are shortened versions from a 288 gto. Not a purists cup of tea... This is not a factory model. Robb
Push that front bumper in some and it's not too bad. Hope it has some extra HP to justify the NACA scoops.
Spot on... Those mirrors might be the Factory mirrors, from the early '80s, only originally painted black. The front hood louvers came in '81, IIRC. Agree the only NACA dicts were on the Turbos, no idea why you would want/need them otherwise. I think those rocker mouldings match my 1994 TransAm, and why would you want the later 328 bumpers, that was the best part of the 308s!!!
What mystery? It's blatantly a 308 GTS with a mish-mash of other Ferrari/Ferrari-esque parts/modifications that don't really work that well together and almost make a genuine Ferrari look like a kit car. What this car does do is highlight what a fantastic job Pininfarina did with the design of the 308/328 GTB/GTS series by showing how it could have gone slightly wrong by going just that bit too far. The lower sections of the mirrors are far too large and round to be factory original mirrors from the 80's. And the upper section looks to be too tall, not wide enough and too rounded on the front face to be modified 288 GTO items.
Agree; no mystery here. Somewhere along the way, this poor 308 GTS has been "customized" by an owner with unfortunate taste.
No, I think it's a 208 turbo GTS (italian market 2 litre turbo) with "tasteless style" additions (mirrors GTO style , spoilers, chrome wheels etc, 328 frontend and many other ) imported to the US. If so, it would be VERY rare in the US, probably the only one of the only 250 ever produced for the italian market. If so , this is, what the original looks like ... Image Unavailable, Please Login
Thinking about it, you could well be right on the 208 turbo GTS theory as those NACA ducts would take a lot of work to fit to a 308 GTS body and still look factory fitted (I would put it past whoever did the rest of the modifications to have added them mind you!). The good thing is, it wouldn't take too much work or cost to put the car back to how Pininfarina designed it so perfectly in the first place, unlike some customised Ferraris.
The subversive, conspiracy theorist view: It's a 208 turbo that someone gussied up and tried to pass off as a "customized 308" to get it into the country
Poor OP...probably thinking to himself "dang, I kinda liked it and now 15 people just took turns laying a turd on it's roof." F Chat is never short on entertaining car thrashings...
