12/30/2023 0 Comments Older ferrari models![]() The coupes are actually rarer than the open-top models. This ’82 308GTS our intrepid reporters spotted at the 2015 Quail Gathering looks like a Grade A car that might fetch more than $72,000 (coincidentally, what a 328GTB sold for new in 1988), while ordinary “good” condition 308s sell in the $40,000 to $50,000 range. Then the 328 brought another 200 cc of displacement and 270 horsepower. Four-valve heads came in ’83 with the designation QV ( quattrovalvole). The mid-mounted V-8 is essentially the same as in the Dino GT4’s, a 3.0-liter quad-cam, first with Weber carbs and then fuel injection from the early 1980s. Fortunately, they started very low so large percentage gains don’t yet result in silly money values-this was really the first high-volume production Ferrari, so they’re in plentiful supply. ![]() and the generation that grew up in that era is now very active in the collector-car arena, so prices are rising rapidly. It makes many think first of TV’s Magnum, P.I. The 308-in Berlinetta (GTB) and Spyder (GTS, really more a Targa) forms-stayed in production from 1975 to 1989, evolving into the similar 328 for the last four years of that span. A steep rise in the past 18 months-faster than the growth of most stock indices-suggests the big money is catching on to this one, so now’s the time. Hagerty pegs a concours-quality GT4 at $88,700 while an average example might be found for less than $50,000. (Or one of the interesting 2.0-liter V-8 models sold in Italy.) Catalytic converters came in 1976 and choked off some of the quad-cam V-8’s throaty roar, so we’d hunt down the earliest GT4 we could. The V-8 was rated at 240 horsepower in the earliest GT4s, while struggles to meet emissions laws saw this strangled down to 205 horses in later model years (through 1980). Several distinctions may draw serious collectors: Designed at Bertone rather than Pininfarina, with Ferrari’s first roadgoing V-8 (a four-cam 3.0-liter fed by four Weber carbs), transversely mounted amidships, the GT4 had two-plus-two seating, so it’ll carry more luggage than can a GTB and might even accommodate a tiny human. sales of the GT4 didn’t start until the ’75 model year. Some dismiss this as a Ferrari at all, and we get the argument that earlier Dinos were “lesser” cars that didn’t merit the prancing-pony badge-later 308s, though, got that badge and sold right alongside the GTB and GTS cars as the company gave up on the idea of having a sub-Ferrari brand. You can also skim those sources to see a few more Ferraris still within reach.) Notes: Most prices cited here come from Hagerty Insurance’s valuation tool, with some cross-checking against the Sports Car Market Pocket Price Guide and recent auction results. Few may measure up as blue-chip investments, but that’s not what inspires those youthful aspirations, is it? Herewith, then, 10 collectible Ferraris that have yet to see their values inflated beyond all reason, four of them “Enzo-era” models. Even so, a determined shopper can find affordable cars built while Il Commendatore strode around Maranello, still trying to puzzle out how Ford had stolen his racing team’s ownership of Le Mans. ![]() ![]() Until recently, booming prices concentrated on Enzo-era cars, the ones built before the company founder’s death in 1988. For anyone who can pile up new-Corvette money, an experienced Ferrari remains an option. These rarities disguise the reality that plenty of Ferraris still sell for prices within reach of determined wage slaves, some for much less than half the list price of the most affordable new 2016 Ferrari, the $202,723 California T. And in December 2015, RM Sotheby’s sold a 1956 290MM Scaglietti Spyder for more than $28 million. At this writing, a 1962 Ferrari 250GTO holds top honors, hammering at a Bonhams auction in 2014 for $34.65 million (before commission). “One day,” most car enthusiasts have mused for nearly seven decades, “I will own a Ferrari.”Īnyone who watches the headlines touting collectible-car price trends could be convinced that such a goal is now completely out of reach for all save trust-fund babies and hedge-fund managers, because the rarest and best Ferraris have been tearing the roofs off the auction tents. ![]()
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