passenger floorboard on 308

Under carpet and rubber lining it looks like it's plastic. That sound right? Some sort of plastic panel.

 

Yep it's fibreglass

 

On my '85 QV it is metal......looks original, but don't know for sure.

 

Area in talking about below where feet would sit. parallel to ground


Thanks for replies guys

 

Gotcha. I was referring to the small panel where the light relay is mounted behind at an angle to the floor.

 

The floors in all of the 3*8 GTB's/GTS' are fibreglass from the factory.

In the past (before the days of the 'net and Fchat - remember those days? The information dark ages when Ferrari specialists had you by the balls and could pretty much charge what they liked for even the simplest of repairs!), a lot of owners who had bought an old 308 GTB/GTS thought that the floors had rusted away and had been replaced with a cheap fibreglass repair section, not realising that that was how they came from the factory!

 

I can believe that!

In fact it is not immediately clear what the construction is. It took me a while to work it out when I first looked at these cars. As we now know, the chassis is a spaceframe made with welded tubes, and there is a large molded fibreglass floortray which sits on top of it. Just to catch everyone out, they riveted a non-structural closing panel to the underneath of the chassis so you cant see the floortray from below.