The next Dino: ’85 Ferrari 308GTS Quattrovalvole
We paid a visit to another great Ferrari shop in our area – SportAuto by Bill Pollard. We are very blessed here in Connecticut to have probably 4 of the finest Ferrari experts within 75 miles of our headquarters. Bill is one and Steve Mastroianni at Auto Turismo Sport is another. Then there’s RPM in Vermont and Santo Spadaro in Westchester but I am totally off the rails now. What I found very interesting was Bill’s take on the 308 GT Ferraris, both GTB and GTS. We both agree that the GTB is very cool looking but the GTS is far more popular because you can remove the roof. Bill doesn’t see why the 308/328 GTS/GTB shouldn’t be the next Dino. Rough calculations show that there were less than 4,000 Dinos built and about 17,000 308/328 Ferraris. With Dinos at between $300,000 and $400,000 then maybe a 308/328 should be worth a quarter of that? Ferraris were built pretty much in the same manner until 1990 when new production methods were used. So a 308 and a Dino have DNA alike. And the Dino is a V6 and the 308 a V8. Food for thought, don’t you think? We set out to find a nice 308 today and we didn’t break a sweat finding this one. This is an ’85 so the body is galvanized and therefore more resitant to rust. It is not exactly a garage queen with over 40,000 miles and we like that. Cars need to be driven to run well. It has had a major service lately by a reputable shop and it is in a great and rare color. It is a 4-valve too and that helps to compensate the power lost by emission control systems. These are new enough to have CarFax reports and this one is clean. Regardless of the maintenance already done, do not pull the trigger on the wire transfer without a PPI by someone who knows these well. This will probably sell for less than $40 grand. Click here for the eBay listing.