Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Fake Ferrari's

[Matt Boyd (ferrari308driver]

My license tag is "NO FIERO" on my 85 euro 308. The very week I got that plate, I was driving by the weekly Friday "cruise-in" for local hot rods/classics and lo and behold there was a Fiero-based 308 conversion on the lot. I zipped back home and got my 308 and parked next to him and compared notes.

 

In my opinion, the car was very well done. Clearly if you opened the engine compartment or looked in the interior there were differences, but proportionally and body kit wise, unless you looked at them next to each other or really knew the proportions you would be fooled.

 

We had a nice conversation until he began talking about how foolish it would be to own a real one given maintenance costs/etc. Then I lost interest and went looking at the other cars that showed up. :)

 

-matt

 

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 1:53 PM, E M <pokiebaron [at] gmail.com> wrote:

There was a company some years back, can't remember if they were Swiss based, or Italian.  They were making "reproduction" cars of the first GTOs and such.  Some had 400i V12, and other sourced bits if I remember.  They were a little bit too good, and Ferrari had them shut down.  As I remember, they were pretty much clone cars, down to the hand beaten panels.  They even fooled some well seasoned Ferrari fans.  I'm sure the ones made are still kicking around somewhere.

Ed
911SC

On 13 July 2010 12:50, LarryT <l02turner [at] comcast.net> wrote:

The new Autoweek arrived today and there was a odd article.  Seems a wealthy
family in Italy has been modifying wrecked Ferrari's & engines to make them
look like more valuable ones.  I figured someone was turning a 308 into a
288GTO or something similar.  People can do amazing stuff with FRP.

Then they lost me - they said the American connection was Pontiac Fiero's
were the base /donor car for some of their creations.  Creations?  More like
abortions.

Seems some Fiero's were rebodied to look like a 308GTB.  I guess until
Ferrari issued a court order stopping that here (I think) - but even so,
doesn't seem like there'd be much profit in that kind of reproduction?

I can scan the article if others want to read it.

LarryT

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