History of my 308

Welcome Kenneth! I don’t know how to track down the history of your car but with my QV, since I know the name of the original owner, I was able to track him down through Facebook. Can you post some pics of your car?

 

I'm not aware of any simple way to track owners with the VIN. Hopefully you've got the original manuals and some service receipts. The Owner's Warranty & Service Book has the first owner's name and address at the time, and, in my case, I found him with google searches, sent a letter, and had some nice email exchanges (he was a serial Ferrari owner, now on in years). The second owner's name was on some service receipts, found him with a google searches, and developed a friendship of sorts. The person who sold me my car gave me the name of the third owner that sold it to him, and I found him now living in Cabo, but as yet unresponsive You'll have fun with the forensics and piecing the history together!

 

Is Carbon still around?

 

What do you know about your car?

Let's start with that and do some diggin

 

All Matthias has is your vin, that it is right hand drive and is was originally red.


(Your car was on the assembly line right behind a red right hand drive Mondial)

 

No....

 

Answer: All but impossible.
Of my three examples, I knew the complete history of two, and felt lucky.
Books get lost, service records damaged and discarded.
New Privacy laws don't have DMVs passing out personal info.

My third one did have a known history, but the original Delivery Info and the Warranty book had been lost to time.

5 digit VINS add another wrinkle, although the Ferrari Market Letter was the go to for those.

 

Carjam and Checka could be helpful for car in NZ. Yours is Euro type RHD car ?

 

Ah, New Zealand...THE place I must visit before I'm too old (wait a minute: I might already be too old); the true geographical antipods to France (= whichever direction the plane is heading from Paris, it is the same distance : no place is "more far away" than this one).
O.K, stop romancing...
What is the FULL VIN (= 17 position) of the car? As said by Alan (= "Big Tex"), normally, piecing the history back together is next to impossible to achieve, UNLESS your car has been imported from the U.K, which is very much a possibility; and "Maranello Concessionaires", in the U.K, not only has among the best kept archives in the Ferrari world, they are also willing to assist...

Rgds

 

I ran his full VIN thru Google and it came back with "no results" which is surprising with Google.

 

If it was sold new in NZ then you might give Continental Cars in Auckland a call to see if they were the importer. I think they were the sole importer back then with Giltrap having Porsche.


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Ah...the plot thickens; is it a VIN for an RHD UK car, Dr Tommy?

Rgds

 

Contact Tony Willis ,he holds all the Maranello UK records.

 

No - the Maranello Archive is independent - I don't have his email but but a search here or via Google should yield it

 

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Sorry to take the OP's thread off topic, but ... don't talk about it, do it !! It is one of THE finest places on the planet. You really do owe it to yourself to get there.

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The VIN tells us it is a fully regular RHD UK car (= identical to a standard "continental euro", except RHD; no catalytic converter, no different gear ratios, etc...) As it was sold new in the U.K, and as said by myself in post #10, and by others, your best bet is to shoot an E-Mail to Tony Willis, he is usually very helpful and happy to assist, even to persons from the other side of the world. The archives of "Maranello Concessionaires", kept by Tony, are a valuable asset for owners of cars sold new in the U.K; it is by far much more complicated for other countries...
As for the rest of its history, as said by Alan ("Big Tex") above, and even if I don't have a clue about NZ legal framework, be aware that this has become more and more difficult to get due to privacy laws, data protection laws, etc...basically, if anyone has anything pertaining to that car, but wasn't/isn't its former owner, he could be liable by a former owner for giving you access to this.
Then of course, keep in mind that some owners did not care in their time about service bills, etc...some did keep theirs, but it became fashionable and valuable only circa 2000 or so.

Rgds

 

Thanks. I know...this is precisely why I must go...
(I also have to visit the Aleutians Islands; don't ask me why, 'cause I don't know, but I have been wanting to do it for the last 40 years or so; I would regret very much after my death not having seen Big Diomede and Little Diomede...)

Rgds