1984 Ferrari 308 GTB - Jay Leno's Garage

[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Laughter] Oh [Applause] [Music] well another episode of Jay Leno's Garage the car were featuring today a 1984 Ferrari 308 quattro Val GTV you know these have become reasonably affordable there's such a thing as an affordable Ferrari this is one of those cars and it's got a great story we're gonna meet the owner just a second you ever see a car on your kid and it just affected you well that's kind of this story behind this one let's meet Donny Callaway the owner Donny come on in my friend good morning good thanks today he stopped by the ground why did you stop by the garage that day I'm trying to think take a look at the top Elaine oh the 37 top that you're doing at Cal Poly no and you told me you had this car well tell people the story okay once upon a time well my dad used to race Ferraris so I grew up hearing the stories and it becomes very infectious i living in Los Angeles back then they were everywhere right a little more than now I think you just get addicted you're hooked right the smell you touch them there saw its there amazing right so addicted and hooked at a very early age pursued being a mechanic right a technician beg the local shops and they said you know you're doing this all wrong you need to go to the dealerships like a dealer will never hire me right right no you've got it backwards you have to go to the dealership first okay immediately straight to Hollywood sports cars right beg for a job they played with me like I'll come back in three months two days on a Saturday at 4 o'clock right show up come back in two more months anyways so they tortured me a little and I persisted got the job drove these all day long yeah pickup and deliveries famous people movie stars etc Mulholland motorcycle police cops writes every day think the long way home always yeah always the longest ways and they eventually got a 308 GTB white in the showroom and they couldn't sell it Magnum 1984 everybody wanted a red for absolutely oh yeah so I beg to buy it right and they're like no like you take my whole paycheck it's like no this is a $60,000 car where you can get it 21 years old grande it's never gonna happen came in one day the car was gone like ha where's my car so fast-forward a bunch of years I'm restoring Ferraris and it's my hobbies that is a very before it's a very nice lifestyle right and I love it and it's my passion and I get really crazy about my restoration work and I have a little bit of money saved so I reached out to my parts guy who dismantles these says is there anything available do you have anything so we got this 308 GTB I cool I love them what's the deal we're gonna cut it up I'm like you know why would you do that well we haven't cut it up yet because it's a little too nice like so what are we talking about you know what I'll give it to you for what I paid for it twenty five thousand bucks can we do a layaway plan right he's like no but he acquiesced eventually and I paid it off and I got the car but when he was telling me about it he said there's one thing though it's white and being you know not to look a gift horse in the mouth I thought to myself what am I gonna do with a white GT be black am I gonna go blue all the color changes went through my head when it finally showed up I took one look at it it's like that's the color that's it right I got the delivery of the car and a few days later I start going through the paperwork so luckily it came with a volume of paperwork and I started looking like Newport imports and I'm looking again Hollywood sports cars this is that car oh this ain't that crazy so not me this was the exact car Wow and how many owners had it had you know three just three lived in New Mexico for a long time which I thought interesting yeah so it went from Newport Beach area New Mexico me when I first sat in it that smell that 308 smell right hit me can it Bend 20-some odd years right and all of a sudden I'm home I'm 21 years old again right and it's like oh my god there's nothing to replace that you can't explain that makes perfect sense and then I just went through it and started saving parts collecting part how bad was it it was drivable one of the first things I did is I took out the air conditioning I will never use it they worked horribly right it had this weird not overheating but getting to the point where it would overheat problem that I couldn't figure out for the life of me and then finally it was just too weepy and it was getting hotter and hotter so I was forced to pull the engine and I did my own machine working everything and resealed it took it all the way apart found my water leak which was bad at the back of the engine between the plate and the bell housing which you would never find cuz I could never find it right and I opened it up and all this cooling spills out like what the hell is this and there was a water mark where it had been sitting over the years fix that it runs beautifully now oh not a drop of oil it just purrs valve job etc you ever think to put like a vintage air unit in those work tremendously well the thing is though for me kind of being a quasi purist yeah in the old school right of Italian sports cars they didn't have air conditioning right that was a u.s. gimmick right like the American right so I'll never use it it never really worked that good either right I was happy to get rid of it so how many miles on the car when you got it it had 80,000 when I got it it's a lot you know it has about now a hundred and fifteen thousand that's got to be pretty high that's one of the highest mileage Ferraris I've ever seen well the thing with me is I'll Drive it and I'll drive it hard and I'll Drive it forever one of my last big road trips I took in it was four states in three days about almost 2,800 miles Oh Jeff constant Monument Valley Colorado Bisbee Arizona just constantly running it on that black ribbon now these had 240 horsepower yes from the factory is it still about the same have you done any up the horn no I tried different injectors yeah thank you no I'm gonna get new injectors get some more power out of this it killed the power noticeably eight ton of gas I'm like you know what I'm glad I saved my old injectors I just put them in the other day okay and it brought it right back to life Oh your original injectors okay you know one thing about when these cars are made one will have more horsepower than the next they're all identical except for the way they're built right by what happened that day or whoever you know a bad night a good day and this one happens to have a great deal of power cool it handles beautifully stops on a dime so it's a five-speed gearbox mm-hmm okay and it's 240 horsepower pushing what about Tiffany 3,000 pounds yeah yeah okay that's pretty good yeah that's that's very good actually and it's a good-looking car thank you and because this is the later model being the original was the two valve this is the 4 mm and with the fuel injection yes because I remember when they first came out they were just strangled by emissions there yeah probably less than 200 horsepower I think it was 214 or something like that they were absolutely good yeah yeah yeah and you can feel it too let's open the sure we open the hood to the engine looks like it's open her up Wow look at that nice and clean you really did a whole restoration on this thing didn't you yeah everything's been wreak add you know original hose clamps right proper CAD plating a real radiator cap right in my restorations I've got a I've got a contact directly at Ferrari so all the hardware is exactly in the bag that it was meant for that day 90 80s so if this bolt these are those bolts right that part number they'll send me the exact bolt and the funny thing is even this little hose clamp this is like 67 cents this is like three cents but it you can see the heads are exactly what Ferrari did right right the Lobo hardware etc even got your catalyst stick around yeah still on there you know when you're a kid it's like you save up your money for your carburetor it's like ah I got the carburetor right okay now I save up my money for my tires when you're building your car as we children it's it's the same thing history repeats itself I'll put in an order for fuel pressure dampener right and doesn't exist you'll never get one and then three weeks later it comes back in a backorder and it's like forty dollars this is a 300 ollar item right I had got it I put it in so all the weird little mechanisms and warm-up regulators injectors etc I'm collecting them and I'm putting them in as they come becoming a brand new car again yeah and this is probably one of the most affordable Ferraris isn't it and still yeah yeah I mean there's still I mean Ferraris have gotten so crazy price-wise now yeah I remember back in the 80s I looked at Lamborghini Espada my Retta spotting that was twenty four thousand and the guy had a 66 330 GT C 428 five and I got well they're both free twelves I'll get the Espada myself now that GT c is a new car yeah and the spot is maybe a hundred and the four 150 but you just don't know no don't know you know about your passion yeah yeah it's funny it's funny how that works yeah because I've seen 308 what you paid what 25,000 what do you got it okay so there you go but obviously you've done a great deal of work to it yes and being an expert you can do it yourself and do it properly yeah had it ever been tweaked and an accident the chassis wasn't bend or anything of that nature was actually because this is my car and it'll never be for sale right I hit some black ice and Death Valley of all places and went off the road and I thought this was very no reaction no braking knowing nothing just like wow look I'm going sideways right oh I'm hitting the dirt then all of a sudden I'm looking up at the sky as the car is hitting boulders it's like what is this so the frame was a little tweaked the lower door skin was chewed up the rims were destroyed and the exhaust was destroyed it did enough damage to where it was like this is this now this is when I got the car and I do a full restoration interior everything but you never saw the dog that ran across the road again yeah no the cuy wily coyote now I assume that stock the unpainted valve cover I don't know why I think I remember seeing painted valve covers am I wrong well the v12s always had the wrinkle finish right right with or without highlighted Ferraris logos the boxers had but the 308 have always been naked oh really some people will go and do their thing right but they've always been naked raw aluminum like that but the neat thing about this engine and the neat thing about Ferraris in general is you have dual distributors right separate banks so these this is literally I have two separate C's ECU's this is literally two four cylinder engines right independent of each other that share the same crank and that to me always drove me nuts I'm like that is the greatest thing ever you know I've got a 1922 will st. Claire which was a guy who worked for handy 40 build his own engine and and it was an overhead cam v8 right bevel drive but I had two distributors and each one ran each not yeah and you turn them independently of each other to bring him in right right I had seen that head over there of your Duesenbergs and I looked at this is very interesting that I looked again four valves per cylinder i when the Duesenberg it has a Berg's a four valve or something oh my god seven liter four valve per cylinder yeah I think straight eight straight a that's amazing see that's the stuff that drives me nuts yeah yeah they were pretty advanced for their time mm-hmm but it's amazing how much simpler this looks than a modern frog everything says you've got your oil filter right there mm-hmm everything's reason this probably seemed extremely complicated back in 1984 but compared to what we have now oh my god it's like a Model T isn't it yeah to open this hood in 84 it's like wow what have they done there's this mess in here but when you really start to move remove stuff and you get to the basics of it these are the dual overhead cam engines are the simplest mindless easiest things in the world to work on well nicely done I picked it up with all the CAD platings and all the injectors and all thank you really nice okay and I just said it's completely stock which is fine yes absolutely and the brakes are what just are they Brembos 180 autists oh okay okay and obviously steel rotors because carbon-fiber didn't exist back in the day but they were perfectly well they were they range yeah yeah then you're only pushing less than 3000 pounds hmm I mean it's amazing now manufacturers have to work so hard to get under 3000 pounds yeah with carbon fiber because yeah you know door guard beams and air bags and and there's nothing this pretty is a non airbag steering wheel yes absolutely really nice other fun thing about this is it's a GTB so you have the rigidity right a true Ferrari GTS of course but you really feel that flex right and the other thing about the brakes is when driving this and you get used to these cars you can sit and forth all day long you just decelerate into your turns accelerate out of them it's almost like being in an automatic yeah and you rarely need your brakes and of course this is the American bumper with ya you know it doesn't look as bad on this as it did on a lot of other cars maybe because it's white and black and integrate right it's okay it looks okay and you've kept it totally stock which even did the European car have a steel bumper no this as well they had the rubber bumper and it was up to this line more or less right so the bumpers were really sucked in both on the front and there were some versions that were just a fiberglass shell really i gadget and or just a bar with fiberglass over it but I've been asked why don't you suck up the bumpers and make it your all it's like this is what I grew up with yeah is what I know yeah this was the poster for us I mean you can get hit at five miles an hour sure hey let's let's shut this let's look under the front hood see what's under there well thank you a real spare tire there you go yeah the original rubber the original rim the original spare and that's a Goodyear Eagle that came that was the hype of the time was the Goodyear Eagles were coming out on Ferraris really yeah that was a big deal back and that's the original spare tire is 30-something years yes so when you get a flat now you have two flats yeah get about ten miles out of it it's so nice to have a real tire it just drives me crazy stupid can of air and they act like modern tires don't go flat and you know they all have these giant 21 inch wheels so you have no rope I don't know how they do it now they have something I am seen in a long time the bleed screw yeah the on the radiator exactly you know I always wanted to meet guys with mirrors I always tell them if you're murder you know runs hot yeah start it up on a level let it run and then open that you hear yep as soon as water starts coming out you shut it in your car will never overheat absolutely but that's what that does modern Baja you know mana cars don't have this anymore it's no it's everything sealed yeah the funny thing about that bleep screw is as I was saying earlier this thing ran hot all the time so in opening and closing this hood it's got a bit of a weak link here and it cracked through onto the hood itself the outside skin because I was constantly having to bleed that burp that right well when I went through it like I said earlier I got rid of those very soft fans and it came with and I put in Ferrari three for eight friends that are shrouded right big motors everything this thing and I've sat in traffic in LA Heat and it stays just the cool side of straight up and down which it never did you would just sit there and sweat and go oh my god oh my god I'm right right so now it runs cool it runs perfect is this the original piece that like this plastic yeah or did you have to find all that snow no this is the original one very nice yeah I saved everything original as I could and we can shut that and cool one of the favorite things I love about the car is the delicate door handle yeah at the top but as you can see it just opens this way these cards all have their own personalities and when you live with one long enough you get the little quirks out of it when I'll have somebody sit in it a girl on a date or whoever and I'll sit for a minute because we've stopped and now it's time to get out and I watch them and they look feverishly where how do I get out of this thing I just sit there and watch and eventually I'm not too cruel alright good well can we can we take it for a ride please let's do it [Music] that hum I love that yeah seems to be very nicely don't feel like a joke at all Oh No and when this thing gets warmed up you can do whatever you want and those are the stock up I'll float down there yep and then I sent out I sometimes people with these hopefully annoying yeah and when this thing gets hot and really the sound Jim opened what I'm LED starts back the pie Oh put him on the map again I know yeah yeah and then followed up by Miami Vice yeah that solidified Ferrari cuz they were kind of getting a little hippie there for a minute you know we had Michael Mann on the show really yeah and he told us the story how they were using that replica sure re and fry got mad and Ferrari told him they give him a real one to use and Michael Anton that will blow up the other one on this shelf boy you have and they did yeah they had legitimate alumni no I thought that the other thing about this is you don't realize how fast you're going you also don't feel your revs yeah I have to eyeball my revs sometimes I'll take your way over [Music] remember once I delivered a Ferrari to Miles Davis he had refused to do the clutch service that it would somehow wages amount of money and I didn't really know who he was yeah and I showed up well I had to go through LA traffic to get to him by the time I got to his house I was fuming the clutch was almost completely gone and he gave me some attitude and that voice of his and I yelled right back at him like man you got a Ferrari what are you doing fix this thing what's wrong with you he starts yelling back me I mean that kind of money like you don't deserve to own this car I mean I'm livered little getting into it with him mommy anybody gets back says you know it get out right you take that car back you have a fix it I'm like are you nuts am i taking this thing back you know I used to open for miles I really I know exactly what you're talking about again nice five more than 240 I know but you know back in 94 240 was a lot yeah now everything it's not about speed anymore it's not about anything everything is a thousand horsepower will do 200 miles yeah I always like Ferraris one high five good I go and I realized oh this is what it's all about yeah journalist that backstory with and all of the Ferrari things people argue against the dealer and all of nonsense but with a cup they really are fantastic fire yeah thank you I love them what's the greatest Ferrari of a drone only to mimic Enzo the next one but yeah I'm doing a restoration on Daytona right now going to be very special I already just think to me yeah I am extreme down though a lot of it is unfounded steering and everything it's like I don't understand what you're talking about yes here's Gracie parallel parking great no problem I've had a Testarossa modern girl for a client of mine a friend of mine up in Carmel and I took that to Death Valley and then I went up into the Sierras took a very long four-day delivery and I really really fell in love I enjoyed that card very much smelvin f40 and I was very impressive yeah that's the guy that really did it for me I thought wow sure quite visceral and you know simple and complicated at the same time yeah that makes any sense an analogue dildo analog last of the great analog Italian cars everybody now got paddle shifters and all gearbox is very nice thank you yeah I spent a lot of time very proud of that it was worth the effort what'd you just do fried you do it then what else I like the old Italian stuff but I mainly just do the Ferraris okay it's simple it's mindless it's easy so how would they contact you passionate some people have found me through Instagram so I got Instagram okay Ferrari lower - 1966 or my name Donnie Calloway on Facebook right reach out through messenger or something look how many cards you have in your shop at any one time so I'm out of a two-car garage at my house right but everything is out like cars at the painter cars of the upholsterer so I drew a rotation and right now I'm doing like seven Wow whole restoration Wow and they're all again in rotation but it's a lot of fun I absolutely love playing these things dad 30 years in a garage this was my grandfather's car yeah it'll never be for sale I want you to bring it back to life yeah and I get to do it it's a real privilege kind of like being on your show oh it's like being a made man fun doing this because you know I just get I like all the gazillion dela Ferraris but it's sure to have a real for lack of a better term working man's Ferrari at pista car the average guy could aspire to own yet work hard and save money huh huh even though these are going up in value though - are ya getting up there but I can have mercy knees there's a little as sixty to seventy thousand dollars for a while I got yeah we base out but you know well that's kind of the thing that's really the reason why I got into it is clan you I could have the time in my 20s I could never afford my cashes right how am I going to fix this the best way I could do is to find some dead car and then I'll be forced right to fix it so I spent most of my life it's the open road yeah like going through Nevada yeah where you sit at 120 miles an hour for hours yeah literally you have to get into this thing every once in a while once every two years I'll get a stupid speeding ticket and they're always cool okay it'll just make it five miles over the limit oh my god that's guys Ferraris get a bad rap because people don't drive them then they sin and that's the worst thing you can do yeah it really is if I let this sit for a couple of months yeah I get into it absent attitude right it gives me grief it's like you it's like an angry girlfriend like oh you don't want anything to do with me about yes have cars you get a lot of angry builders oh absolutely what's the other fryer you would lust after boxer I'll box the 512 carbureted vodka yeah and then after that would be now that I've driven once so extensively and really fell in love I would I would really enjoy a Testarossa yeah really like that car [Music] yeah after they've lived their lives or been abused or mistreated or left to die in garages her field for what have you but without ever the case with Ferraris all the time yeah I have a huge list of cars that are sitting rotting it backed up really well yeah well I can remember and you can get at 2:15 sure but and a double headlight model for four or five thousand yeah I passed him when I was a kid yeah I passed him up in five or six thousand bucks ain't yeah I used to have a metal man friend of mine who would buy two fifties for life you know ten to twelve thousand dollars and then rebar him as probably GT oh yeah you know this one's just finished for me but to bring it back to life and to dial it in when it was new that's everything that's the passion yeah it's hard to stop driving this thing - once you get in that groove but here PCH imagine probably guess reason because mileage doesn't it it gets great mileage yeah I get like 320 out of a full tank which is amazing then what do you happen to be behind ya that's 20 to 25 I can fill up in Monterey go down PCH go down aiwei woman borderline road racing you know going through the gear shift lots of revs and make it all the way home to Malibu Wow on one tank of gas well I'm so glad we did this episode because there are so many guys that would love to follow the Ferrari dream but it's gotten so expensive yeah and this is proof that you can find one a reasonable price and you can work on it like you work on any other car you have it up with something that's really never gonna go down in value just a little hobby system and you can enjoy it's an investment you could enjoy Tommy thank you very much my friend good job a beautiful job on this car and you have a Ferrari or you want to know more about for you go to his website warwood Instagram Instagram Ferrari lower - 1966 there you go yeah this has been a blast a real treat Jay thank you so much thanks for being a part of this show and you got a chance to drive the Ferrari take it see you guys next week bye bye ciao [Music]

Channel: Jay Leno's Garage

Views: 753,405

Rating: 4.8817143 out of 5

Keywords: jlg, jay leno's garage, Ferrari, Scuderia Ferrari, 308, quattrovalvole, Italian cars, 5 mph bumper, Maranello, V8, restoration, affordable Ferrari, Jay Leno, Jay Leno's Garage, car reviews, compares cars, classic cars, vintage cars, sports cars, super cars, cars, car gear, McLaren P1, Porsche 918 Spyder, Camaro Z28, jay leno garage, jay lenos garage, car collection, cnbc, episode, motorcycle, ford, corvette, tour, dodge, lexus

Id: gZWqJRo2OC0

Length: 28min 22sec (1702 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 02 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/Oliveiraz33]

I like my ferraris in red, but I'm digging this white 308, adds a touch of class.

[u/Gasifiedgap]

Great car, but it didn't really explain how the guest planned on buying it at 21? He just kind of glossed over that.

[u/turdbogls]

this car (OK, well later 80's 328's) is my absolute dream car. I've always come back to this body style. even when the countache, and testrarosssa was around....this was the car.

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the 355's give this a run for #1 though.

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thanks for sharing.

[u/GiveMeAMuffin]

I dig it. Its just a nice driving car to go cruising around in and row through the gears with all the sights and sounds to go along with it.