Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Road trip report in 308 GTB from New Zealand

[Gavin (gavinnz]

I have not redlined my GTB either...
Got to 7000 in 4th last week at 120mph thow!

I rewarded my car today with some new parts that arrived:)
New gas flap, bright new chrome horse for the back, and new rubber pedals to 
replace the horid home made aluminum ones.

So I feel good that the car ran well and now it can now relax with some nice 
shiny new parts to keep it happy.

I ended up getting the parts via the USA in the end... from 
http://www.ferraripartsexchange.com/
Gas flap was $35US pedal rubbers 19 each and horse 55 I think... all good 
prices I thought...

They seemed very efficent and a little cheaper than other places I looked at... 
responded to e-mails super fast and the parts were here in New Zealand in less 
than a week... good servce should be rewarded, so if I need anything more I 
will try them first for sure:)

Regards
Gavin 
New Zealand
1978 308GTB.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: red5hilser [at] aol.com 
  To: gavinnz [at] xtra.co.nz 
  Cc: ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com ;
  Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 11:43 AM
  Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Road trip report in 308 GTB from New Zealand


  Hey Gavin: Many props to you and your Fazzaz. When my GT4 was delivered I 
took it to the service station for some fresh gas. A 'lookie-loo' came over and 
said, "nice car, mister.' Since it was shipped from New York, it didn't have a 
license plate on it. He noticed that asked where it was. I looked him in the 
eye and answered, "Mister, it's a Ferrari and WE DON'T NEED NO STINKING 
BADGES!" With that he rounded up the little lady and 2 kids and headed toward 
town post-haste. A week after that, I drove it to the beach in Mexifornia for a 
nice drive with GTS Doug to Symbolic Motors in La Jolla to look at the $million 
dollar cars that we could have bought for $10k or less in 'The Good Old Days'. 
1,100 total miles and she never missed a beat, although I did use 2 qts. of 
Mobile Synthetic. I never redlined it once but she saw many minutes at 6,500rpm 
in 5th while crossing the desert. Maybe cLyDe was right. 'All GT4s are 
'shitboxes.' 

  Yer pal, Shitbox Bubba