A weird 348gtb

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Yeah - you can get the doors easily enough (see above) with slats. Then you can probably trade someone the rear light setup for their stock 348 setup as the round light setup is pretty popular (and was used in-period on 348 race cars along with the slat removal). Then, other than the lip spoiler, you'd have a stock 348 body wise.

One or two period race cars removed the stock lights and went to the round ones to let more heat out of the rear as the stock lights covered almost the whole rear, and quite a few of them lost the door slats, so more than a few of the street cars were modified to look like that. The 348 'lemans' grill conversion was a 355 round light conversion a board member sold for a while, so there are definitely some stock setups lying around.

 

It does seem like a popular mod amongst the racing fraternity...


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Why do those rough and ready race car light setups look so much better than the ones designed for street cars?

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Yup it looks like that.

 

For some reason all of the street conversion used 355 lights instead of the 328/Mondial lights that the period race cars use, which I agree, look much better and match the car better. Maybe due to availability? A 348 with body colored lower, removed slats and 328 lights with mesh grill looks amazing imo - all business. I've seen one or two setups with the round lights but the slats over top which also looks really good, so could see doing that, keeping the door slats and running challenge speedlines.

Anyway, op, looks like somebody built it to look like a period race car. I'm pretty sure you could sell/trade the rear light setup for stockers and maybe end up ahead money wise if you had to have the factory look, but I'd keep that car as is - looks the business. Maybe sell those wheels (big $$$) and source a set of challenge rims.

 

I think I now understand where the owner went for. And might be better and cheaper to enhance the theme then to fix it. All are reversible mods.

I also tend to agree the only thing missing is race rims. They are not cheap either these so what are alternatives like the race cars in the pics? OZ? Maybe some other lightweight carbon omp bucket seats.


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I personaly preffer the look of the 348 with removed strakes over the softer 355. If you buy the car I'll trade you my strakes for the strakeless door lowers.

 

Speedline challenge, OZ Futura, BBS… all nice period correct race wheels.

 

Those would set it off perfectly, and you can probably sell those GTC rims for similar or more money - I believe they were also optional on the 512TR, same p/n. Here's the most recent sale I could find. https://www.ebay.com/itm/125973657968?_ul=PR

 

But from what I get from this thread you can just remove the strakes and have exact same?

 

That requires some body work - which while not super expensive (or difficult, it's just fiberglass), it isn't free, like trading would be.

 

The panel that has the strakes is removable from the rest of the door. The strakes themselves are not removable from that panel unless they are cut out and then smoothed.
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Door w/o strake panel.

 

The burgundy seats are hideous though. I suspect car was black inside.

It's a rare GTB. Only 137 made and 14 in rhd.

There was an auction the other day where a no mileage rhd sold for 47000 pounds. I was utterly shocked at how low that car went, original with no mileage. Even with vat. But not sure on registration etc or bonded papers etc

https://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/threads/rmsothebys-auction.685107/

 

Much of this could be answered with 3 minutes of googling. But anyway…

 

Ah ok so the no strake panel is something different or made like that? Aftermarket or Ferrari as the race cars had these?

 

They cut them off and filled the holes.

 

In case you didn't notice yet I'm pretty new to this so one has to know what one is googling for. I learned quite a bit from this thread.

 

…although Veilside made a strakeless panel 20 years ago.

 

Image Unavailable, Please Login The panel on this car’s body kit — long long out of production — was supposed to be a bolt on (glue on?) replacement. I have never held it in my hand nor seen a pic of it uninstalled, but that was their claim at the time.




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Cheers mate, looks original to me, red seats with red door trim inserts, with black console and carpets. Thanks heaps again.

 

If so, it's a hideous combination with a red car. Anyone here can do a vim check how the car was speced?

 

Oh, I see what you are saying.

I haven't seen too many red Ferraris with that Bordeaux interior.

It was either swapped into this car or this car was originally a different colour and someone painted it re-sale red as that's happened many times in the past before.

If you had the VIN, then you could look into it yes.

Is the dealership close to where you live?

 

I have vin, engine no and assembly no. If anyone has access drop me a pm.