Panic buying a 308 during the pandemic!

You ae hearby absolved, Bless You my son...you have chosen wisely.

The single exhaust denotes and early car, and luckily the Euros were NON CAT thru the entire carbed production run.
You stole it, but somewhere an ex wife is dancing naked on your money!!!

So there's good, in both sides of this!!!
Here's the ex wife......maybe you need her shirt into the deal.....
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The later style reverse lights would be the only thing pushing the manufacture date forward in time.
Last year of single exhaust??

I would wager a 1978 maybe 1980 at the latest.....do you know the VIN?
Surely that's in the info somewhere....we can peg it close from that!!

Welcome to the 308 Brotherhood, and here's the nurse to wash the virus off......
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Funny finding you here... I came across your You Tube video earlier today! Cheers to ya!

 

Very cool. Congratulations!

You'll love it.

 

Have fun mate - welcome to the asylum

 

Welcome and Congrats! Post more pics when you get it.

 

Did you previously have an Intergrale?
Theses carb Ferrari’s are so analogue incredibly simple mechanical wise and easy to work on .
I like the single exhaust.
Knack with theses is originality so do a survey when you get it ....it’s doesn’t look molested .

I bought a GT4 , 208 Italian import on U.K. plates in 2018 at Historics auction for a snip .
Being ex Italian it’s got zero corrosion .Came with a recent Joe Macarri SH
How ever as soon as I drove off I realised the suspension was shot .It needed re bushing / rebuilding .
£800 in parts from superperformance and about £2K in labour from my local spanner man , all of them A arms , drop links , shockers sway bars ....whole lot of bushes .

You will immediately know as soon as you drive it if the suspension is shot .

Fluids are all easy to do .
I,d do an oil change as with carbs and a lot of short starts ( unable to get up to temp ) there’s a significant amount of oil dilution from the excess fuel swilling about , gets past the rings and dilutes the oil down because it’s not getting hot enough.

Do the gearbox / transaxle

 

Looks nice. Check fuel lines too of course , add a decent Hawaii shirt and you are good to go!

 

I saw that and thought about bidding. At £34K it seems like a good buy - if you don't like it then sell in on for no real loss, if you do, put some money in and make it nice.

Not really sure that 80K miles is high for a 40 year old car.

 

Well done!
love the influenzo reference

 

Hi again Jack! It's your rival bidder, Tom

Interested to see how it progresses, fingers crossed there's a quick fix for the whole 'not starting' thing.

 

What a wonderful toy to be stuck in lockdown with!

 

It sounds like it need a good old Italian tune up. Keep us posted on the details on the smoke after you get a chance for a nice long drive or two.

 

You should ignore any MoT failures due to parking brake and emissions - these cab cars won't pass emissions and run properly. The parking brake is marginal even when properly adjusted.

If you take it to an MoT station that 'understands' these issues, they won't dirty their emissions machine and they will overlook the handbrake being useless. It's a 40 year old Italian car and it wasn't built to modern standards. Ferrari lied when they submitted the emissions data (just like they lied over the horsepower). In a couple of years (when it's 40 years old) it won't need an MoT so it won't matter anyway.

A smoky engine is not good news: as a minimum it needs heads rebuilt (£4k?), but possibly a full rebuild (£10k+). If you get into that you will then have the 'improvements' dilemma.

 

As it goes, smoke off throttle = valve seals, guides. Smoke on throttle = rings. Good luck. Look like it smokes most when you rev it.

 

Congrats! I’ve really enjoyed your videos btw.

 

Congrats on the compression test. Just saw your recent video. Rebuild those carbs and drive it like you stole it.

 

I used to use a couple of 'friendly' garages to get my car through the emissions. But I rebuilt the carbs last year and it passed the emissions without a problem. I only asked for them to be tested to see if my work had made any difference.
The car is running the best it has in over 20 years of ownership. The rebuild kit I used was about £60 for all 4 carbs - it was a nice job to do over the colder months. An ultrasound cleaner makes life easy.

I had the rear calipers rebuilt a few years back (by Bigg Red). Even with new pads adjusted to within an inch of their life, the handbrake can only defeat gentle breezes.
My car was first registered 1/1/81 so next year, as you say, MOT's will be a thing of the past!

 

Loved the video! Big congrats!