Buying, Owning, and Maintaining a Ferrari 308 GTS QV
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- Mitch DeFrancis is a true car guy that searched far and wide to find his dream car that is the perfect reflection of his idea of what a car should be. Here is the story of the last 16 years he has spent owning his 1984 Ferrari 308 GTS.
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People often lament what is it in buying an old car and driving it around when newer cars are better.
This video is the perfect answer to that question because we add Petrolheads love and adore or cars and they become a part of our lives that we enjoy because that's what these cars are about, great story!
Very well put.
Exactly. The emotional bond is awesome to behold and hear about.
In no way, shape, or form are newer cars better. The manual shifter will always be the ultamate driving experience. The interaction between the car and driver is so much more intimate.
We both have quite a common channel subscription. 😊
I owned a 308GTS QV for 22 years and drove 128,000 miles in it without one single breakdown or problem. I then owned a 550 GTB for 12 years and drove 112,000 miles in that without a single problem. Having warmed them up carefully thrashed them hard just like a superbike. Ferraris are by far the most reliable cars I have ever owned. The problem is the owners not the cars.
Great story, glad you could share it! I've owned my one car 21yrs, now, got it as a Graduation gift, then spend the first 4 years in a total Frame-off Restoration. I'm glad to see you enjoy grabbing gears through a stick too.!
Yes. Save the manuals!
You can just tell how much he loves this car. Sounds like he has a great resume of cars owned as well. More from this guy!
It's such a treat to hear someone talk about something they love and have enjoyed with such passion....especially when that something is a car as beautiful as the 308. Do more of this; it shows just how much appreciation some folks still have for older cars.
+Bethany Cannondale it is a special car worthy of a special bond for sure!
I drove a 308 recently, and it was so charming. The way it and really all Ferraris rev out is so satisfying. Loved it
Glad to see you guys listened to people about the sound volume. Keep up the good work! Hope you grow over 100k subs
+webz thanks so much. Please help us spread the word!
Love the car but more importantly i love this guy what a good dude
A great story of acquiring a great car Mitch!
I drove a new 308 back in the early 80's. The owner paid about $62k for it. At that time, cell phone service was just starting up in Florida but the owner wanted a radio-telephone installed in the car. I worked for the company which was contracted to install the phone so I got to pick up the car at the dealership and drive it several miles to the shop. This type of phone had a large transmitter/receiver and it was difficult to find a place in the car to install it without drilling through the body. In the first installation, it was placed behind the passenger seat but when the owner found that it restricted movement of the seat back, he wanted to have it installed in the trunk. Once more, I got to pick up the car and drive it to the shop. I only took the car up to 115 for a short time while on the interstate. It took a few minutes to get comfortable with the gated shifter but It was almost impossible to dog that car, you could be doing 35 mph in 3rd, step on the gas and without any hesitation it would take off. I told people that the car was so responsive you had to watch what you were thinking! After slowing down from 115, I started to taste something, I looked at my mouth in the rear view mirror and saw blood! I was so excited that I actually bit my tongue! Its been my only experience driving a Ferrari.
I love 308s. My dream 308 is an early (late 70s) 308 GTB in Yellow!
+pezzonovante888 agreed. There is something about older Ferraris in Yellow that is just perfect.
My first 308 GTB was a 79 ralley car owned by the dealer Bob Sharp of Danbary CT,and I had it for 16 years!It was the love of my life and she took me to 197 mph on the McKnight run and my mother thought I was mad! Now may I get you to have a movie night with your Paddle shiftng kids,the movies "GRAND PRIX and LE MANS" that should really convince them about manual is an art!I also now have a 1982 GTSi I just drove it from Scottsdale Az to Saint Petersburg Fl and another 1979 GTB rally car!
Really Nice to hear other owners enthusiasm!
I love this guys enthusiasm!
Thanks for sharing!
You can see the passion dripping from this. Forza Ferrari!
We have had our '85 Euro QV for three years now and just love it! We just uploaded a long review or ours as well. The 308 is the sweet spot on the classic Ferrari line I think. Still has the interesting interior and all the great buttons and knobs, but is reliable and a car you can do most of the maintenance yourself. It has ample power, drives well and has amazing looks! Instantly recognizable as a Ferrari. Great sound too! Thanks for uploading this story. Franny
That sounds terrific. They are such beautiful cars.
My father had exactly the same car when I was growing up. Black 308GTSi. Hideously unreliable car. Water pump never worked no matter how many times we took it in, meaning it was rare that we took it out, but when we did it was amazing. I really wish we still had it, sold it during the recession for around $45,000. We also had a DeLorean DMC12 at the same time, thinking back, we had a ton of 80's cars around when I was in elementary school.
Did you find it impossible to ever not drive 88 mph in the DeLorean?
Same story with my dad's XJS.
If you are ever looking for a DeLorean let me know, my friend owns the only DeLorean resto store in Ontario and he has a few in his shop at the moment. His name is Justin. Check him at wellsauto.ca
It is funny, but I was up to 7 cars at the same time and found with a 1986 Alfa Romeo Spider Veloce and a 1987 Porsche 944 S1 that even swapping cars every day it was hard to drive the old stuff as often as needed to keep them in top condition. Driving it is the most important thing.
What an awesome 308 and a great, enthusiastic owner!
I can't imagine the ups and downs of having a car like this for 16 years. That is longer than most marriages last!
Great car video guys !! Really love the channel. The audio in the video is kinda of distorted. Otherwise, really enjoy your vids.
The 308 is the prettiest car ever built.....I love it. Maybe one day.
Wow. It’s crazy to think about how much the channel has grown over these past few years. Not going to lie, I miss the imperfect-perfection of these older videos-more intimate. Regardless, thanks for all of the entertainment over the years 🤝
I feel the same way this guy does, except about Lincoln Mark VIIs. I've had them on an off for 15 years. Never sold any of them I owned. Most had to be retired - they aren't exactly collector cars lol so not well taken care of.
I LOVE THIS CHANNEL!!!!
Thanks so much. Which of the videos has been your favorite?
VINwiki oh thats easily "useless cars are the best cars"!!!
It's funny that 30k miles in 16 years is considered a lot of miles on a Ferrari.
+goatmonkey2112 it is sort of sad but it is great that Mitch drives his cars.
Love the 308 it's a beautiful design that and the 61 250GT California red
I'm not buying the argument that modern cars have to be automatics b/c of the horsepower. It's just an excuse. The Porsche 917 was ~1,000 hp and a manual, no?
+jeffer168 plenty of powerful cars are sticks but they don't tend to work well on the road and the transmissions quickly become the performance limiting factor.
This is why I think the dealers and manufacturers should be selling the experience rather than selling the numbers (0-60 mph, hp, etc.). Before you have a chance to actually DRIVE great driver's cars, you tend to pay too much attention to the numbers, because that is the information that you have at the time. Then as you gain driving experience you realize more and more that the numbers are just a fraction of what makes up the total experience. Unless you are racing, a few ticks of the clock are meaningless so forget the numbers and buy the experience.
BS. Every time a car claims to be faster in automatic form a real driver debunks it. Even if it was, you have now lost a degree of controlling the drivetrain.
I love the background purr of that engine
We were feeling our way through some changes in our capture and editing here so it was much lower quality. Sorry about that.
VINwiki I wasn't being sarcastic. It genuinely added personality to this man's story. I thought that he loved the Ferrari so much he'd only did the story if the car could be in it. Haha. Thank you for the response. You guys should let me do a story about my old 93 Tercel (the best damn car that ever ran)
Amen! Don’t let them sit! Drive ‘em.
Rose colored glasses, but nice to hear the rare owner that’s not been left on the side of the road by their 308. The stuff dreams are made from...
No one sells "that car" better than him
+Casey Thornton nothing like the infectious passion of an enthusiast owner to evangelize the car hobby.
You guys have some sort of generator on in the background?!?!?!?
+Clique53 we film these in our warehouse and the neighbors kicked on their pressure washer. Sorry about that.
old ferrari's are a pain in the ass service is a bitch clutches and gearbox is ridiculously heavy and its down on power but NOTHING LIKE THE SOUND AND THE PASSION HOW IT MAKES YOU FEEL WHEN YOU DO THAT FIRST SHIFT AT FULL CHAT
Could you make a video on the ferrari Monica that car is a forgotten ferrari
+pokejag 04 we will look for someone with some experience with the car. Great recommendation.
VINwiki thanks you just don't see anything on that ferrari on RUclips and it isn't that bad of a car I had one before my 360, but the 10 k timing belt was an issue
When he said he had a BiTurbo and a GLHS, that was it. That's a bent car guy. I get it.
Engine Out services are not evil!
480p? What is this 2008?
+808 ha. Yes. Sorry about that. Enjoy the fast load speed and we should be back to usual tomorrow.
VINwiki it’s alright lol! Great channel, love the car stories.
+808 thank you. Which one has been your favorite?
VINwiki The “buying a Lamborghini from a prostitute” is by far the funniest story, however the cost of maintaining a McLaren F1 is my favorite because it surprised me on how difficult it is to maintain that vehicle. Again, great channel, I can’t wait for more content!!
Thanks for watching.
No i drive MY car a lot. I put 1000 miles on it in 4 weeks.
I got my car exactly 6 months ago and have put almost 10000 miles on it
thank you for driving your car
Kinda reminds me of major Briggs from Twin Peaks lol
Songs name is tornado by balanov
As a European so ofcourse not knowing much about the US classic car market i have to wonder,is it considered "tampering" switching to euro spec bumpers on older Ferraris,Countach,etc? Does it lower the value or increase it or nothing at all? Because my GOD they are hideous. The worst i`ve seen is the Countach and the Maserati Khamsin but they aren`t doing the 308 any favors either...
John
"Euro specing" will generally increase the value of a vehicle but the local police might not like it....
944 Turbo !!! Hope it's an '88 Turbo S or an '89.
Crushing it
Roger Kraft? Or RoBERT Kraft the Patriots owner?
If you love a car it does not matter how many times the Ferrari dealer puts a new water pump belt on...
loved this story, just wished he didn't take the pictures with a f'n toaster
never heard of a reliable ferrari as he says
I have had pretty good luck with the four I have owned.
marty mcfly as long as they are driven they are pretty trouble free
Yes. That seems to be the secret.
Jolt interesting, good to know.
a friend of mine had a 308 GTS until someone destroyed it while he was sitting at a red light, and he daily drove it for years with no issues, but that does seem to be the key, drive it.
Maggggggggnummmmmmmmmm P.I.
Hi everyone! Just wanted to thank you all for your views! If you are on Instagram please follow me here: instagram.com/4re308/ lots more pictures of my 308 and lots more stories coming! THANK YOU!
Green screen?
pictures are blurry
The Hidden brought me here.
did you film this on a potato
It's a hoot
480p? Even my potato has 1080!
Exporting procedural hiccup. Corrected for upcoming vids.
480p? Oh dear. Quality dropped a lot
+Lozinsky Eric yes. Sorry about that. This one rendered on the wrong settings and we didn't have time to redo it before our usual release. Sort of amazing how many views it got in spite of that.
owns a Ferrari but had to cheep out on the camera for the pictures lol.
We did a very poor job with this one. Definitely not his fault.
He owns an expensive ferrari, but he cant afford a 3+ megapixel camera? Lol, anyways, awesome video and amazing car!
+AnimalzyNL we were ironing out some kinks on this one.
Sup with that background noise? You might have picked a better place to record an all verbal video...just sayin but I made it through...lol.
Unfortunately, the manual transmission is a dead technology. People have become so obsessed with speed and performance that they no longer care about feel.
+Man from Nantucket we are certainly sad to see that trend developing.
Manuals are very satisfying and engaging, but dual clutch autos can go so much faster, and speed is addicting too. They're very different experiences but both worth having. Although manuals are great, don't forget that dual clutches can also be fun.
Exactly. It has been the easiest way for manufacturers to improve performance in the last 10-15 years so they have really caught on. Now the lightweight internals and transmission components are making it impossible to even offer a stick as an option.
I'm still annoyed by ignorant US americans who own an italian sports car, but don't even know how to say 'Lancia' and that manual shift may soon be a thing of the past in the US, but not in europe.
Great car. Please stop taking pictures of it with whatever potato camera you have.
My dream car as you can tell by my user name
Who else hates the obnoxious intro?
Any recommendations?
VINwiki You could try different songs for intros, start with "Wailin" by Andru
VINwiki yea perhaps vida guerra bent over on a 308 gts hood.
not an expert on this, but maybe for now / if you don't want to change you could make it less loud. The videos are pretty quiet so I have my volume up, then the superloud intro / closer come on and I have to decrease. I think it's important you start the videos with the hook like that and the logo / branding is a good Segway, but the music is too "obnoxious" however it does sound like music in car games so that mental association in probably good too.
+Henry W we will start there.
Dude! Do car stuff not people talking about car stuff
We will do our best to explore some other content strategies.
bro car stories is what makes them soo special
This vid should be re-titled, "Trump voters' poor thinking process as demonstrated via bad exotic car purchase". DUHHH