Video This Ferrari 308 GTB Is Driven Daily on the Streets of Thailand

[Jonathan Fairfield]

 

 

 

Accompanying article - http://www.thedrive.com/watch-this/9674/this-ferrari-308-gtb-is-driven-daily-on-the-streets-of-thailand
 

[taichiplanet]

nice story. good to see older cars still used rather than mothballed. i've always been fond of the 308, and Fly Yellow is the best colour for it!

[overherebc]

 Those were the ones made when Fiat was running the show.

Won't say any more on that. 

Still, nice to see any old car driven and not stuck behind glass.

[Happy Grumpy]

Watch out Thai police!

[Kwasaki]

If original best of the Dino's. 

[VocalNeal]

Used to be a guy who drove one to the Hash!

[overherebc]

Wasn't the inside done with a lot of the parts from the Fiat 124 two door sports model. Seats, door interiors and handles. Dashboard almost identical with 124 air ports etc, manual windows with Fiat easy breakaway handles etc.

Still, it did have a different badge on the front.

[Naam]

5 hours ago, taichiplanet said:

Fly Yellow is the best colour for it!

[transam]

My chum in the UK is restoring one as we speak, a nice one in the UK could be worth 150,000+ UK pounds....

[Get Real]

ok! so what? Just don´t get it.

[sandrabbit]

9 hours ago, Kwasaki said:

If original best of the Dino's. 

Hmm, see the attached pic - that's a Dino named after Enzo's son who died. My favourite Ferrari in spider form but a rust bucket and the engine spits valves plus with 180hp on tap the average family saloon will give it a run for it's money now.

 

p.s. This is the correct colour, Rosso red.

 

 

[overherebc]

47 minutes ago, Get Real said:

ok! so what? Just don´t get it.

Just spent 6 hours stripping down the front brakes on my 42 year old car, now having a cold beer watching the snooker from UK, sitting here with a feeling of having done something even at my advanced years. 

Local workshop will service the calipers and skim the discs then I'll put it all back together and feel good about it.

Bet you don't get that either.

???

[overherebc]

7 hours ago, Naam said:

If it's not smoked it's not Bacon.

If it's not red it's not a Ferrari.

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[Kwasaki]

1 hour ago, sandrabbit said:

Hmm, see the attached pic - that's a Dino named after Enzo's son who died. My favourite Ferrari in spider form but a rust bucket and the engine spits valves plus with 180hp on tap the average family saloon will give it a run for it's money now.

Disagree how can a fiberglass body be a rust bucket the GTB was a big improvement on previous Dino's  get me one and you get your family saloon and l'll prove it to you, no contest. 

[sandrabbit]

2 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

Disagree how can a fiberglass body be a rust bucket the GTB was a big improvement on previous Dino's  get me one and you get your family saloon and l'll prove it to you, no contest. 

what are you on I posted a pic of a 246GT Dino and you say it's fibreglass?. you are posting about the 308 but the Dino is the 246!

[janclaes47]

13 hours ago, overherebc said:

 Those were the ones made when Fiat was running the show.

Won't say any more on that. 

Still, nice to see any old car driven and not stuck behind glass.

 

I owned a Ferrari in 1981, the top model 512BB, and always considered it an overpriced Fiat.

[Kwasaki]

8 hours ago, Naam said:

Yep Ferrari red full stop. 

 

1 minute ago, sandrabbit said:

what are you on I posted a pic of a 246GT Dino and you say it's fibreglass?. you are posting about the 308 but the Dino is the 246!

Wrong again mush. 

[janclaes47]

2 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

4 minutes ago, sandrabbit said:

what are you on I posted a pic of a 246GT Dino and you say it's fibreglass?. you are posting about the 308 but the Dino is the 246!

Wrong again mush. 

Try to read up here a bit, then come back, with apologies to Sandrabbit.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dino_(automobile)

[sandrabbit]

4 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

Yep Ferrari red full stop. 

 

Wrong again mush. 

the 308 classed as a Dino was the 308GT4 which most people don't consider to be a Ferrari, me included.

[sandrabbit]

10 minutes ago, janclaes47 said:

 

I owned a Ferrari in 1981, the top model 512BB, and always considered it an overpriced Fiat.

Looks wise it's my 2nd favourite after the 246, if i could pick one though it would be a 308GTO 

[Kwasaki]

2 minutes ago, sandrabbit said:

the 308 classed as a Dino was the 308GT4 which most people don't consider to be a Ferrari, me included.

Absolute nonsense.

 

" The 2-seat 308 GTB supersedes the Dino 308 GT4 2 + 2 and in a sense is a successor to the Dino 246. "

 

Well the 308 GTB is a V8 Ferrari like it or not with a fiberglass body,  with good reports. 

 

I really don't care what most people consider, up to them.

[sandrabbit]

3 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

Absolute nonsense.

 

" The 2-seat 308 GTB supersedes the Dino 308 GT4 2 + 2 and in a sense is a successor to the Dino 246. "

 

Well the 308 GTB is a V8 Ferrari like it or not with a fiberglass body,  with good reports. 

 

I really don't care what most people consider, up to them.

you were the one that called the 308 a dino and when I posted a pic of a 246 dino and said even though I liked them they were rust buckets you slagged me off and smirked over it. the 308 was the successor but wasn't the dino, I mentioned the 308GT4 so stop changing the subject and the 308 fibreglass cars were only made for 2 years so the one in the story probably isn't even one of the early ones. you obviously don't know your Ferraris and a wiki link was given but you are too stubborn to read it.

[overherebc]

28 minutes ago, sandrabbit said:

what are you on I posted a pic of a 246GT Dino and you say it's fibreglass?. you are posting about the 308 but the Dino is the 246!

Not sure if you'll get the result but google    Dino buried in back yard.

Interesting.

[sandrabbit]

11 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

Absolute nonsense.

 

" The 2-seat 308 GTB supersedes the Dino 308 GT4 2 + 2 and in a sense is a successor to the Dino 246. "

 

Well the 308 GTB is a V8 Ferrari like it or not with a fiberglass body,  with good reports. 

 

I really don't care what most people consider, up to them.

http://www.glass308.com/default.aspx

 

 

[sandrabbit]

4 minutes ago, overherebc said:

Not sure if you'll get the result but google    Dino buried in back yard.

Interesting.

http://jalopnik.com/5872514/the-true-story-of-how-a-ferrari-ended-up-buried-in-someones-yard

 

interesting thanks.

[Naam]

43 minutes ago, janclaes47 said:

I owned a Ferrari in 1981, the top model 512BB, and always considered it an overpriced Fiat.

there's nothing wrong with a Ferrari... as long as the car is not yellow.

[Naam]

2 hours ago, sandrabbit said:

This is the correct colour, Rosso red.

yes!

[janclaes47]

5 minutes ago, Naam said:

there's nothing wrong with a Ferrari... as long as the car is not yellow.

Not sure about that, because in those years Ferraris used more oil than gasoline, and on auctions yellow ones tend to fetch higher prices than red ones.

[taichiplanet]

1 hour ago, sandrabbit said:

Looks wise it's my 2nd favourite after the 246, if i could pick one though it would be a 308GTO 

i prefer the front engine V12s, though i wouldn't say no to a 308GTO!

 

was a time when the early fibreglass bodied 308GTBs were less desirable than the later steel bodied ones, i think it is probably the other way round now. As for colours, red ferraris especially normal road going ferraris tend to be a bit boring after a while as there are (relatively) so many of them. Nice to have something different and some of the other colours were stunning on the 60's and 70's models. Had a 356BB that was gorgeous in Pino Verde.

 

If some you guys want to be boring old farts, then go for Red.   Though i do like the Red Metallic.

[Shaksey]

That's cool, it's nice to see them used.

 

I drove (among a lot of others)

 

308 GTBi

308 GTBi QV

308 GTSI QV

328 GTS (the final evolution of the 308)

 

On the roads of the UK and all around central London for many many days. They're perfect for looking cool, having fun but without really being very fast, easy to handle and not too much risk of losing licence in 2nd gear like all the modern supercars but they still all revved to 7500rpm or more which considering when they were made is damn impressive.