Ferrari 308

When I was growing up, I had few dream cars in the various categories. My dream luxury sedan was of course a Jaguar and my dream four-wheel drive was a Range Rover. Though the two cars are British brands, my dream sports-car as you guessed was Italian, and it was a Ferrari. Two of my favourite modern Ferraris are the 360 and the 430 but my favourite older Ferrari was a 308.

The Ferrari 308 was probably one of the most iconic Ferrari’s ever in the late 70s and early 80s due to it being the car used by Tom Selleck in the hit series ‘Magnum, P.I.’. There were two models of the Ferrari 308 produced, the 308 GTB and the 308 GTS which was a targa-topped model. The 308 was first introduced in 1975 and up to 1985 when production stopped, they were about 12,000 units built. The initial few years of the production, the car bodies were made out of fibreglass and then back to steel in the subsequent years.

The Ferrari 308 is not to be confused with the Dino 308 GT4 as they were two entirely different models with different engines and were even designed by different design houses. The Ferrari 308 was as expected designed by Pininfarina and just for some added knowledge here not related to Ferrari, Jaguar had also employed the services of Pininfarina to redesign the Jaguar XJ Series 2 and it became the Jaguar XJ Series 3. All models of the Ferrari 308 came with 3 litre V8 engines which were carburettor powered models and fuel-injected for the later models.

The first Ferrari 308 that I saw here was a 308 GTS targa top somewhere early last year and even though it was an old model about 30 years old, it still turned heads and also mainly because this particular car was a very well kept one. The pictures here are of that particular car and it’s definitely a stunner even in real life.