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Yea, but did you KEEP the car? Was it really that
'good' that you couldn't see yourself parting with it as a truly
Iconic automobile? I keep toothbrushes longer than you
keep cars....LOL!
The 348 was a pre-quality-control machine that marked a
'first' for Ferrari: the use of PLASTIC in the
interior. A plastic that over time, became sticky/gooey as
the material began to leech or deteriorate. It can be
fixed 'now', but back then there was no remedy for the
slimey-plastic problem. How's that for a car that sold new
for $120,000 and got spanked by the NSX regularly?
M
--- On Wed, 8/18/10, LS
<lashdeep [at] yahoo.com> wrote:
From:
LS <lashdeep [at] yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] What
you can buy for $30k....
To: "Michael"
<Cavallino_Rapante [at] yahoo.com>
Cc: "The FerrariList"
<ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Date: Wednesday, August 18,
2010, 6:27 PM
Haha...indeed.
My 348TS was great. More reliable
than my Honda minivan actually...
LS
From: Fellippe
Galletta <fellippe.galletta [at] gmail.com>
To: LS
<lashdeep [at] yahoo.com>
Cc: The FerrariList
<ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Sent: Wed, August 18,
2010 6:01:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Ferrari]
What you can buy for $30k....
Sensationalism
usually trumps reality in the online
world.... :-) FG
On Wed, Aug
18, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Mike Fleischer <themightytoe [at] gmail.com> wrote:
Wow, broken record much? I'd say you took a
lesson here from the Republican party, just keep repeating
the message and maybe it will become the truth...
Certainly we will find WMD's in the Iraqi desert one
day... Clyde, be honest with us now? We are all
good acquaintances here... did a 348 sleep with your
mother, then smack you around a bit afterwards?
Someone in a 348 knocked over your Ducati and didn't leave a
note? Is it because your 512 TR has bigger cheese
graters on its sides? OK so how many service
bulletins did it really have? Give us the total number
please? vs. Say the 328 or a 1984 Chevette or a
360 Modena? OK not Ferrari's best effort certainly,
but having owned one, I can testify it was damn fun to
drive, held up well on the racetrack, and aside from a new
clutch and TO bearing was largely low maintenance for a (at
that time 9 years old) used car. Seriously you keep
saying how awful it is, but having driven several 355's,
348s a 328 and even a 550 or two, I don't see really see it
as quite as bad as you do? Mike clyde
romero wrote:
This car
had more service bulletins than the space
shuttle I would not
buy this car under any
circumstances
"IF YOU CAN
MEET WITH TRIUMPH AND DISASTER AND TREAT THOSE TWO IMPOSTERS THE
SAME"
CLYDE
Capt. Clyde
Romero Jr.
MANPAD SME
Clyderomero [at] bellsouth.net
Mobile 678 641
9932
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Tomorrow I am looking at a
1994 348 GTS, a very uncommon car around here being a late car
sharing lots with the early 355. Its a LHD (Which I
prefer) and available right now with fresh cambelts for 22,000
pounds which at todays exchange rate is about 32k USD. That's
about market price for the car right now. Has 40000 miles, is
Red/Black, no rust and in good nick.
355's will cost about 35k
(pounds right now) and a good 360 45-50k pounds max (even a
Spider). I know one Spider that just sold for 32k pounds here
locally.
Don't really love the 348
but for 22k with a fresh service its a LOTTA car for the
coin.
At the right
price, almost any enthusiast car is worth a shot....
I
would say if they kept the manual steering and heavier controls
of the 348 onto the 355, then perhaps you can say the 348 was
truly a Ferrari anomaly. I would almost say the 355 would have
been the perfect V8 F-car save for the lack of torque.
;)
But 308/328 feel with 355 performance, and it is that
rare unique quality of the 348 that keeps me from ever writing
it off completely.
Has the 348 become the Dino 308 of the
modern age? Loved only by those who own them. :)
FG
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