308s on BaT

nice result

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1985-ferrari-308-gtb-quattrovalvole-6/

 

Surprising but yes, a nice result.

 

Actually, that surprised me less than this one: https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1983-ferrari-308-gts-quattrovalvole-41/
They're just not making many 2,600 mile Euro GTB QVs anymore....
Like I said on BaT, I hate to see them go into a bubble, but if one deserves to be preserved for all eternity, it's this one.
- Dave

 

This one feels like someone got a pretty great deal. Hope they enjoy that machine!

 

I agree if the car was sorted and not in a state of rot mechanically I think it's a pretty good price.

 

Yup, that's a beauty....lots of QVs on BAT recently...
Not a bad result for a pretty Si today either: https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1982-ferrari-308-gtsi-14/
- Dave

 

Nice result today for a pretty Argento/Black '83 US GTS QV: https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1983-ferrari-308-gts-quattrovalvole-42/
- Dave

 

Relatively low-mile US 'Glass car could only scare-up $134k yesterday.......and still sold!: https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1976-ferrari-308-gtb-12/
- Dave

 

Check the bidding history of the high bidder--looks like a No Sale to me? Inept presentation by the consignor IMO.

 

I agree. There seemed to be others in BAT comments that called into question this auction and the bidders. The comment activity also seemed really low for this special of a car. The black vertro that just went had almost 150 comments alone and this one was maybe a third that?

 

For me, the vetro premium doesn't make a lot of sense. They aren't all that much lighter than steel (I think the consensus is about 100lbs +/-), and as for the rarity, to me they always seemed more like an oddity. So how much more should they be valued above a similar steel car? Ten percent? Twenty five percent? I don't know, but the prices they were demanding a few years ago seems excessive.

Personally, all things being equal I'd rather have a steel car - Ferraris should be made of metal (or in some rare cases, carbon).

 

So many things about the Ferrari market make absolutely no sense, but it is what it is.
I don’t mind the glass body, I mean the Gr. 4 308 GTBs had glass bodies; as did many of Ferrari’s later race cars.
But in the case of the 308 in particular, a dry sump steel car beats a ‘Glass US car in Dave World all day long.
-Dave

 

I agree 100%.

 

This one looks pretty interesting: https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1980-ferrari-308-gtbi-4/
Not sure what it would take to make Calif. smog legal, as the pump is in the trunk. Half way across the country as well, not a deal breaker as I have bought plenty of cars farther away.

 

I took all my smog stuff off from my California car. To put it back would be trivial. Add the pump and bracket, and connect the pipes.

 

I’ve been watching that one since it first popped up on BAT. Grigio GTB’s are stunning in person and that one looks like a very nice example.

 

Only day one and it’s already one of the more interesting 308 auctions in recent memory:
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1982-ferrari-308-gtsi-13/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_2648441
- Dave

 

Major exercise in reverse psychology there !! How is this seller redefining basic dirt and caked pollen as “patina”? lol what

 

I do like how the one person asked for “Dust meter readings, please”……BOOM!

Is this the original dust?

 

Just catching-up the thread:
This guy was probably a steal: https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1979-ferrari-308-gts-34/
$80k for an Si: https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1980-ferrari-308-gtsi-30/
Not a 308, but interesting nonetheless: a 328 GTB-based GTO clone: https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1988-ferrari-328-gtb-5/
Nice '85 GTS: https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1985-ferrari-308-gts-quattrovalvole-51/

 

I do not understand the value of a 308 with 2100 miles. What are you going to do with it? Park it and put it up for auction in 2 years? To me its too limited a market.

20K miles? I get it. You put 5000 miles on it and its still only 25K. But put 5000 miles on a 2100 car and its now no longer that special.

 

I certainly have no interest in doing that, but I do appreciate that some are. To be able to look at a 308 in 20, 30, 50, 100 years in its as-born state will be pretty cool for those that succeed us in keeping the 3X8s alive.
- Dave