Who owns my old 1978 Ferrari 308 Gts? 24003 I have some Original Docs for you

Try to edit the thread title (or ask a mod) so that the correct number is shown up there.

 

verde330gts - I don't know if this helps, but a post in a different thread from FChat user Barnone 308 (in 2004) identifies his car as 24033, here's the link:

https://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/threads/1978-ferrari-308-vin-number.14786/#post-215893

Don't know the member, and don't know if he still owns the car, but maybe that will at least head you in the right direction. I always like seeing cars reunited with their past belongings.

 

What a great 'Karma' thing to do!!

 

I love it when I see people do things like this, I believe anything associated with a car should stay with it. I've done this twice with things I've found that belonged to other cars. It's like a piece of their story is missing.

 

beautiful color (with a matching shirt )

 

Cool story. Good friends!

 

Those pictures are GOLD for the current owner (no pun intended). I'm in contact with the original owner of my 1975 car, but he hasn't been able to find any pictures of it (I don't think he's actually looked). However, I had a few pictures of the car from 1989 that were included with the sale, but would love to see photos of mine when it was brand new. I really hope you can get those to the current owner.

 

Might I ask you a question? What time of year did this momentous occasion with your buddies occur? Any chance it was in around Thanksgiving?

Thanks

BTW, I just completed a book on FAF titled The FERRARI PLACE. You might enjoy it.

 

Very cool Anthony. I bought Jim's book. There's so much history in it on how Ferrari cars and culture took shape in the US. If you're a Ferrari fan like me you should get one. I have 3 308s. BTW is that a Nardy steering wheel in #24033? Aren't they supposed to be silver spoke Momo?
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Hmm, that might be the case here. I'm not sure what the rules/guidelines/criteria are for sending messages?

For me, I did a search for the posts by a member (click magnifying glass, then the "more" button, then put his user name in "Posted by Member:" field), then clicked on his user name from a found post and the option to "Start a Conversation" is there in a small overlay window (see attached screen shot).

If that's not working for you, then I would be happy to reach out to him on your behalf and link him to this thread. Maybe then he could contact you.

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Jim Hunter is a well-known Ferrari writer, photographer, and historian. Try the following email: "[email protected]". He belongs to the Ferrari Club of America, Southwest Region and his articles appear in every issue of our bimonthly magazine "Sempre Ferrari". The current issue of "Prancing Horse", the quarterly of the FCA, has an article about Jim's photography written by Jeff Allison. If the above email address doesn't work for Jim, try "[email protected]".

 

Hey, thank you . . . I believe it was your email that I just responded to . . .

Thought I'd share a quick note about Richie Rudiger. I tried very hard to track him down from the very outset of the project. I had a lot of help . . . but we came up empty. As I recall the word was that he was either in North Carolina or Florida, and I believe someone even produced a Florida phone number at one point, but it went nowhere and we never managed to get in touch with him. I was sorry to hear that he passed last year.

I am very interested in your story here, and would really like to know what time of year it was that the three of you went over and purchased the car from Steve.
Also, I am curious about what appears to be a black Nardi steering wheel in the car, which to the best of my knowledge did not exist at the time you purchased the car. Is this a later photo, where you may have later updated the steering wheel? The black Nardi is, to my knowledge, a unique feature to the 1981 and 1982 2Vi cars.

Thanks