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    Hyper-Maintained Ferrari 308 Boggles Minds With Perfection

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    Image of brandegee brandegee
    10/15/09

    In reply to Hyper-Maintained Ferrari 308 Boggles Minds With Perfection
    Not to rain on anyone's 308 love, but it's not a GTS, it's not a Euro dry-sump motor, and it's not a fiberglass lightweight. If you're eager to tune carbs, great, but I think he could have picked a more collectible version to obsess over. #ferrari308
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    Image of lilwillie lilwillie
    10/15/09

    In reply to Hyper-Maintained Ferrari 308 Boggles Minds With Perfection
    Fine, but was a he a smoker?

    /Imagine the look on the guys face if you bought the car, picked it up in the rain, and got your muddy boots on the carpet and then lit up a smoke for the drive across country. He'd faint.
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    Image of Maymar Maymar
    10/15/09

    In reply to Hyper-Maintained Ferrari 308 Boggles Minds With Perfection
    Jim Kenzie (a Canadian auto journalist) once spoke in one of my classes. One of the things he touched on was his beloved '77 AMC Hornet, and how he had bought it from a German machinist, so he knew it had been anal-retentively maintained. And yet I imagine it's a total beater compared to this.

    I mean, I don't have the level of commitment to do something like this (as evidenced by my car, unwashed since August '08, except for the square to put the LeMons sticker on), but I can't help but look at this and think, "phwoar, that's gorgeous."
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    Image of danio3834 danio3834
    10/14/09

    In reply to Hyper-Maintained Ferrari 308 Boggles Minds With Perfection
    If I were to buy this car, I would pretend as if it were late 1978 and I just bought a brand new Ferrari!

    I'd strap on my platform shoes, throw on that awesome album by that new band, Van Halen, and lay rubber all the way to the Whiskey a Go Go.
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    Image of danio3834 danio3834
    10/14/09

    In reply to Hyper-Maintained Ferrari 308 Boggles Minds With Perfection
    All that and its still a 308. However, I can definitely appreciate how meticulous this car is. I don't think that his reserve is unfair.

    I always appreciate the work that goes into these types of restorations. Even if the car is a 1984 Dodge Aries.
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    Image of Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est
    10/14/09

    In reply to Hyper-Maintained Ferrari 308 Boggles Minds With Perfection
    This guy is to my liking. He reminds me of the old guy who used to live across the street from me - the guy who would disassemble, clean, and lube his lawn mower every single time he had used it.
    Should have bought his old 633CSi...

    As for the 308, I'd still prefer a 328 but the labor which went into this one changes things a bit.
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    Image of P161911 probably shoudn't have P161911 probably shoudn't have
    10/14/09

    In reply to Hyper-Maintained Ferrari 308 Boggles Minds With Perfection
    I think I could go find a 308 shell, rummage through this guy's trash bin and build a pretty decent driver 308. I didn't bother to check his other auctions. What did he do with all the cast off parts?
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    Image of Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est
    10/14/09

    @P161911 probably shoudn't have: They're included with the auction. And no, he won't sell any of them separately.
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    Image of mercury_marine mercury_marine
    10/14/09

    In reply to Hyper-Maintained Ferrari 308 Boggles Minds With Perfection
    "Ferris, he never drives it. He just rubs it with a diaper."
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    Image of zenneth zenneth
    10/14/09

    @mercury_marine: We'll just drive home in reverse.
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    Image of Maxichamp Maxichamp
    10/14/09

    In reply to Hyper-Maintained Ferrari 308 Boggles Minds With Perfection
    "[A] technical engineer by trade." What a shocker.

    I would hate to have been his dorm mate in college.
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    Image of Bumblebee Bumblebee
    10/14/09

    In reply to Hyper-Maintained Ferrari 308 Boggles Minds With Perfection
    Does Ferrari still do the raised lettering for the make and model badges? Is not, they should.
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    Image of Axel-Ripper Axel-Ripper
    10/14/09

    In reply to Hyper-Maintained Ferrari 308 Boggles Minds With Perfection
    buy car
    get in with dirty shoes
    leave with MASSIVE gravel burnout
    see owner/carer cry
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    Image of danio3834 danio3834
    10/14/09

    @Axel-Ripper: I would do the same. I just bought a brand new Ferrari!
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    Image of Benson2175 Benson2175
    10/14/09

    In reply to Hyper-Maintained Ferrari 308 Boggles Minds With Perfection
    All that work, all that trouble, and all that money to make it Yellow. Yellow. Ugh.
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    Image of HoonThatFerrari HoonThatFerrari
    10/14/09

    @Benson2175: I like this particular color on that model... don't forget if you have a red one, in many states you're legally obligated to grow a moustache & wear tropical print shirts all the time.
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    Image of Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est
    10/14/09

    @Benson2175: But it's the color it was originally. Also, in spite of Hulk Hogan's nephew, I like yellow.
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    Image of alexander_the_car_salamander alexander_the_car_salamander
    10/15/09

    @Benson2175: Yeah good point, Ferrari's only look good in red. It looks like it's trying to impersonate a Lamborghini. #ferrari308
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    Image of HoonThatFerrari HoonThatFerrari
    10/15/09

    @alexander_the_car_salamander:

    There are actually SEVERAL "Ferrari Red's", ya know... the Rosso Corsa (or "Racing Red"), is the one most commonly seen - this is the "official" Italian team racing colors from back in the day when each country was assigned a particular color that their cars were to be liveried in... this era is also where "British Racing Green" came from... you can Google/Wiki this stuff for more background if you like.

    In any event, Ferrari has used three fairly predominant shades of red over the years... "Corsa", again, being the most-utlized, but there are also "Rosso Rubino" (which is my favorite one), which is a deeper, almost blood-red/not quite Burgundy, and the even lesser-used "Rosso Barchetta/Rosso Fiorano" (which are pretty much the same color... unless you were some kind of paint expert or Ferrari nut, you prolly couldn't tell the difference).

    There have also been a couple of more metallic versions of each over the years, but those are the three basic "Reds" you're going to encounter in Ferrari-land. #ferrari308
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    10/14/09

    In reply to Hyper-Maintained Ferrari 308 Boggles Minds With Perfection
    Enzo Ferrari would be proud.
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    Image of bmith bmith
    10/14/09

    In reply to Hyper-Maintained Ferrari 308 Boggles Minds With Perfection
    An absolute disgusting waste of money. You can't even drive or start that car anymore without it getting dirty. Cars are meant to be driven and not restored to this level.

    The owner should be sent to the best hairstylist in the world and go to the spa for the day to be cleaned and pampered and then dressed in the worlds most expensive Tux and then placed in a hermetically sealed chamber for the rest of his life for the destruction of this beautiful car.

    I would watch Jeremy Clarkson destroy 10 of these cars on live TV with a sledgehammer and blow torches than watch some idiot with more money than sense destroy one by turning it into some obsessive "object". Never again will the scream of this car being revved up to redline on its way into 3rd gear be heard again.....
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    Image of danio3834 danio3834
    10/14/09

    @bmith: If you buy this car, I'm sure no one would stop you from driving it.
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    Image of brc is never late, because of his v8 brc is never late, because of his v8
    10/14/09

    In reply to Hyper-Maintained Ferrari 308 Boggles Minds With Perfection
    Again, like the recent low mile GNX : just what are you supposed to do with a car like this? Drive it and ruin the restoration? Park it and look at it?
    I think the only choice is to be museum fodder. But then, it's not original, so it's not as good as a stored-from-new example for museum work.

    I'm very impressed with the work, but I can't help feeling that 50% less effort would equal 100% more fun, because there wouldn't be so much guilt attached to driving through a puddle.
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    Image of Kuro Kuro
    10/14/09

    @brc is never late, because of his v8: Not driving your Ferrari is like not having sex with your girlfriend to make her more attractive to her next boyfriend.

    It's not a priceless museum piece, it's a car. A reasonable sum of money but you'll pay far more for a less interesting Porsche. Besides, Leno said it best. "(words to effect) I like to buy a 10 and drive it down to a 7." Too right.
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    Image of Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est
    10/14/09

    @Kuro: It seems that this kind of restoration would actually make it take much much longer to bring it down to "7". So it could be worth it, even as a driver.
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