Thoughts...

http://phoenix.craigslist.org/nph/cto/1321856348.html

 

thoughts: why would someone living in Phoenix chose a E-Type and 308 coupes, when both awesome classic cars came in open-top versions? I can't imagine the AC in either can deal with AZ summers, and winter must be a pretty nice time to drive around topless there.... great taste in cars nonetheless.

 

Where to begin:

- US spec car.
- Can't determine if it is fiberglass of steel
- The complete interior is wrong. I mean EVERYTHING
- Wheels are a mess
- Guages are wrong
- Painted rocker is wrong
- The asking price is out to lunch

 

Isn't the interior grand? The wheels are a nice touch, too. I spoke to the owner...the car had a fire some years ago (superficial, if a fire can be that) and caused some smoke damage inside, hence the new seats and such. Ghastly job on the reupholstering, not to mention ghastly taste and an anathema to the original design. BTW...how can you tell it's a U.S. model? The bumpers look Euro, though I realize they could be after-market. The car is steel but do we know if it's dry sump or not? The owner, of course, didn't know; anyone who would put that kind of interior and wheels on that car wouldn't be likely to know. Somewhere Enzo is puking inhis grave.

 

Side marker lights, speedo in mph in a lhd car (hence cannot be UK), if it really is a 1976 car it could very well be a glass car.

 

its not impossible for that speedo to have turn over at least once

 

Low miles cars are out there.......I have a similar speedo unit (note dual range markings) in my #20405.......coincidentally, after a fire...... (dashes go up quick if you short the wrong wire)


I concur it has North American side marker lights.........a close up of the front bumper would tell, smoooth on bottom, or jagged??? It's wearing Euro signal bi-color lenses....

So you'd have to retrim the interior and hunt 14" wheels....

Man, you guys are easly discouraged!

I'd get the VIN and run it with the Factory and see what the OEM colors are.....as to the OP, coupes are better handling cars and ALL of the 1976 -1977 308s are GTBs.......

 

We actually have almost as many early steel cars as 'glass, here in the US, IMO.....the "special 100" are well documented and there was a bias against the fibreglass, those guys bought Corvettes!

 

We have mentioned it in other threads but I suspect the "dual range" speedo was a repair unit, all the 'glass cars have "light" numbers in the odo wheels, and all the steel GTBs I have seen have "heavy" number odos in a 'MPH range only' faceplate......

Be interesting to research some parts books and figure that point out, someday.......

 

Big Tex, please explain this:

We have mentioned it in other threads but I suspect the "dual range" speedo was a repair unit, all the 'glass cars have "light" numbers in the odo wheels, and all the steel GTBs I have seen have "heavy" number odos in a 'MPH range only' faceplate......


Thanks,

Scott