Is # 41969 the last GTSi (2valve) built?

Try harder : the first post in NNO's master thread of production numbers suggests in the region of 43079 was the last

http://ferrarichat.com/forum/showpost.php?p=137680489&postcount=1

Maranello UK list 42617 as the last rhd imported

 

Ferrari, we learn, didn't make schedule clean production cutoffs for economic reasons to scrape the most lira from inventory...quite natural. It's as though they would find parts in the back room for a few months years cars and use them up during the run of a newer car design. For example, in 1980, carbed and injected cars were assembled side-by-side throughout the year in a roughly 50-50 mix. Mondial received injected engines in 1979.

Plus, the regulatory demands of emissions etc features, changed the production scheduling between engines placed into 4 major 308 groups - Euro, US, Euro Mondial, and US Mondial, such that things like QV engines were introduced to each as much as 18 months apart. Four valve engines, normally thought of as 1984-85 engines, were actually placed into Euro cars in early 1982.

VIN - s/n lists are available but 308 information is fragmented and lists are kept separately on personal web sites. The formal Ferrari list is, like the Vatican archives, not open to the public nor low ranking officers. Yet, hope exists that a uniform database may be available sometime. First step is agreement on format, the biggest hurdle. And whether crashed and parted out cars would be included. Why not at least a checkmark.

 

Can you post some pics?

 

My 82' GTSi is identical to yours, but for a deep front spoiler (and LHD).

Serial number 42995.

 

I have 41695 that was one of 3 pre-production QV's in 83. Not sure if that helps.

 

Bluemel lists

43059 as the last serial # of GTBi's
43079 as the last GTSi.

But he also has the first GTB QV as 42809 and 1st GTS QV as 41701, mondi QV 41737

 

You just have to look on the bright side: although there are no clear cut-offs like there are in American cars, at least Ferrari is well ahead of the classic British sporting makes, such as Triumph.

While Ferrari has some cross-over of SN and models, at least there's some record. Triumph had such poor recording of production that some factory-delivered cars had factory-applied paint in colors for which otherwise there is no record. (One such example is the record of a "Jay Blue" car being made, but no records of which car or what formula/shade that color actually was!) And like the 2V/QV issue, Triumph was building TR4s side-by-side with TR3s (aka TR3B), but the 3Bs only went to North America.

I suppose that's one thing that is benefitted by a hyper-red-taped government in this country in the last 30 years: it is so hard to get a vehicle certified for US sale and such strict rules apply to changes that manufacturers now have pretty strict cutoffs -- certainly for new models with new engines.