Attention 308 and 208 GT4 Owners - Call for Pics and Info!

Hello friends! I have spent the better part of the past month updating my website to reflect much more accurate information regarding 308 and 208 GT4s. It's been a lot of work, but the bulk of my update is now done to the "Chassis" section:

https://308gt4.com/chassis/

There you can click on the appropriate year and find your chassis number, production date, original factory exterior and interior colors, and the importer/dealer for all cars. For some cars I have body, engine, and transmission numbers, current (or last known) exterior and interior colors, and current (or last known) location.

A handful of cars have photos too (if you see a chassis number in orange, click on it and a pic will open in a new window).

Please take a look at it and let me know your thoughts. More importantly, if you see anything that might be incorrect, please let me know so I can investigate and update. Any missing info you may have would be much appreciated too, it would be nice to have all the holes filled in.

I would love to add a pic of your car to this database. All I ask is to send me a clear, hi-res image, which you'll probably have to do via email seems to scale everything down (or I don't know how to attach or download images properly).

More updates are coming, such as a fairly thorough list of paint colors, codes, and how many of what were painted what color. That'll take some time to put together, but I'll get it up there.

 

Yes, that's where the bulk of the info came from.

I had a registry up on my site already, but it was full of holes. I ran across that one at Ferrari Beverly Hills and loved that it was all there… but it's not easy to access in bulk. Their site is designed for looking up one or two chassis numbers and getting what you need from there. When you try to look up a particular model, for example, all 308 GT4s, it fails fairly hard; It doesn't show them all, it only shows 16 per page, chassis numbers duplicate from page to page, etc. So getting a large list was impossible.

Also, their sorting sucks. You can only sort by "newest model year" or "oldest model year" when searching for a particular car. Which just didn't work when I was searching for something specific like 1975 308 GT4s because they're all the same year model. It was hard to sift through the results.

I ended up manually copy and pasting every 208 and 308 GT4 I could find, then manually searched individual numbers that didn't show up in my initial search (which was a few hundred), then merged their data with my already existing data. The result is a full list that's accurate and easy to access. There's still more work yet to be done though…

I'd love to capture the engine and transmission numbers for all cars, but on that site you have to contact them to get that. They apparently provide it, but only if you contact them for each individual number. I plan to contact them and see if there's anyway they can just provide me that list.

And another issue is their paint colors and codes. For example, my car is listed as "Verde Pino 106-G-30" but you'll see other cars that color listed as "Verde Pino Met. 106-G-30" — so, same color code but the naming convention is inconsistent (and that happens a lot). So I plan to clean all that up, which will take a lot of time.

The great thing about having a large list like this is we can easily capture a lot of detailed stats like how many cars of a particular color were made for a particular year, or the entire run. And since we have the production dates available along with paint colors and codes, it's easy to see when Ferraris started switching from Glidden Salchi to Glasurit (as the codes obviously change). I do plan to harvest all that data and create a "paint" page on my site, but again, that will take some time.

If you can't tell, I'm kind of a nerd when it comes to production data for these cars.

 

Thank you!

I can understand why someone would "disappear" from maintaining something this. It's a lot of work! But, at least for now, I'm very much into capturing all the data I can. So, hopefully, that will never wane. If it does, I'll at least post a message/disclaimer on the site stating so!

 

Yep, I did change the date on 07202 as it clearly existed before June 1974, of course I don't know the exact date it was built, but I figured it had to be a few months before its debut so I just changed the year.

If you could find a production date for 07202, that would be great! That was the only one missing that info.

I have the 208s all listed as well, and 08830 is indeed a 208 and it was the only one made in 1974. It would be nice to know the story as to why only one was made in 1974, and the others came about much later.

12046 bothers me too as it's listed as a production date of 1974-06-24, but that's a fairly later chassis number to have been built in mid-1974. It's clear they weren't built in 100% sequential order, but they weren't too far off. That one… that one is really off, so it doesn't make sense. It would, however, make more sense in mid-1976.

As far as paint, I'm still trying to dig into that. Based on color codes alone, it's likely they switched to Glasurit sometime in 1979. I've read they switched in 1980, but I do have a friend with a 1979 model 308 GT4 and it does have the Glasurit paint sticker on it. The Glidden Salchi paints all have codes like "106-G-30" but in 1979 a number of cars had that style of code, but also a number of cars have codes like "6335009" and 1980 cars had only the later style codes. There are a few randoms (literally six cars) that have later codes on earlier models, but that could be chocked up to the fact (as you noted) most of this data was likely taken from paper records, thus whomever originally transcribed these may have filled in a code that was incorrect. My plan is to clean all that up to something that makes more sense and is (hopefully) accurate.

You also won't find 12788 on the Beverly Hills site. That was chassis used by Bertone to build the 308GT Rainbow. I added it in mine because I felt it should be there, and I used the date it was first shown as the production date. I guess it's not in their database as it was never actually built as a 308 GT4, but if you've ever looked at the car it's definitely all 308 GT4! I felt it should be included.

 

Just overhauled it again to make the database much more useable.

https://308gt4.com/chassis/

For each year model you will now see…

• The page defaults to 25 cars per page, you can change that to show 50, 75, or all cars at your discretion
• Each table is sortable by whatever column you want, just click on the column header
• If I have a picture it's marked with "pic" in the column directly to the right of the chassis (not many, but there are some)
• Table is downloadable in a few formats
• "GD" was changed "RHD" (Guida di Dextra / Right Hand Drive)
• Each table is searchable
• Cleaner look and feel

I have further updates planned, but these will take some time to implement as I'm just one guy doing this and I (sadly) have a full-time job. Here's what's planned:

• A column indicating the car is OOS (Out of Service) - could be stolen, crashed, etc.
• A column noting sunroof and luggage shelf (aka: rear-seat-delete) options

I'm also planning a "paint" page which will have various data points as well.

Enjoy.

 

And that is exactly why I copied everything I could from that site (for the 208/308 GT4) because I found their site to be a little "wonky" and unreliable when searching. I wish I had all the engine, trans, and body numbers, but I can't inquire about every single car. I did inquire about one, it took them about 4 days to respond and tell me they didn't have the numbers for that car!! So, it's quite possible they don't have the additional info for your car.