Originally published at: Be an 80s dick in this Ferrari 308 GTSi | Boing Boing
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I loved those dogs!! Dobermans were trendy in the 80s… Nowadays, at least for me, they’re hard to find
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But they’ll find you, for sure, if you roam where you didn’t oughta!
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308s can be found in the 30-40K range. The problem is replacing broken or worn out parts. Prices like this are too common on parts from Ferrari.
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Yeah, but how many of your friends have hand-stitched cigarette lighters in their cars?
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I have a friend that had, in the 1980s, the working person’s equivalent car, a Fiat X1/9, and only one Doberman, who usually rode shotgun. Don’t think he was influenced by ‘Magnum’ though. YouTube’rs Heidi and Franny have one of these, and Franny shares useful tips about owning and maintaining vintage cars . These apparently have a reputation of being reliable and relatively easy to maintain for a Ferrari. Says the guy whose only Furrin’ car was a Vauxhall. Was Magnum a dick? Didn’t watch it much, but I thought the twist was that he was naive and overburdened with integrity, like an anti 80s guy. But I dunno?
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I worked for years as a private investigator and it never made sense to me that Magnum drove such a flashy vehicle. When I was doing surveillance I made sure to drive the most “plain Jane” vehicle imaginable so I wouldn’t draw attention.
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Still not as cool as my Fiero
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Was Magnum a dick?
dick
2 [by shortening & alteration] : detective
Sam Spade not only became the model for later dicks but also provided Hollywood with the classic private-eye film. — Charles Nicol
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That’s good for anyone looking to buy the thing today but imagine spending the kind of money that thing must have cost in 1980 only to drive it an average of under 270 miles a year.
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Ah yes, of course. It was the proximity of the term to “80s” that made me assume the other definition
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The second one made me have a convulsion, or, maybe, a Lorentz contraction
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I’ve seen Fauxraris like that in the wild, and the better ones really do make you do a double-take.
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Jay Leno says Ferrari owners buy the car and then brag about how few miles are on it; Porsche owners brag about how many miles are on it. Jay doesn’t own a Ferrari .
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Thanks so much for the earworm, bud! wanders away trying not to hear the Magnum, P.I. theme
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The Pontiac Mera (Fiero) should really have Pontiac badging. I think it just makes it a funner impression.
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The 308 may be near enough to being a too close relative of the 1980 Mondial 8. The Time’s “50 Worst Cars” article cheerfully shat on the Mondial. So, 80s dick wanna-be beware:
Ferrari Mondial 8 (1980)
Even the legendary Italian sports car company whiffs once in a while, and the first Ferrari Mondial was a big red disaster. Based on the 308 chassis, this large and relatively heavy 2+2 coupe had a mere 214 hp on tap from its transversely mounted, mid-engine V8, and its transistor-based electronics had more bugs than a Barstow motel rollaway. Eventually, every single system would fail, not infrequently accompanied by the smell of burning wires. The factory-authorized service, meanwhile, was more like factory-authorized extortion. It hasn’t helped the Mondial reputation that it was one of the “cheap” Ferraris, within reach of a reasonably successful orthodontist. Mondials eventually got much better. They could hardly get worse.
maybe it’s the lighting, but that clutch pedal looks pretty worn for 11k miles…
