1980 Ferrari 308 GTSi: Regular Car Reviews

Button up shirt with top four buttons removed: Check. Enough hair grease to oil the engine for 10,000 miles: Check. Large tube sock knot shoved into the front of pants: Check. Enough Aqua Velva dumped on body to cause birds to drop: Check. $1,000 day drug habit that no rehab center can fix: Check. OK, I'm ready to own one of these...

Thomas Magnum is H U N G R Y

That color is incredible. Always love seeing Ferraris in uncommon colors.

The official car of hearing "Hey is that a kit car or the real thing" everytime you stop to put gas in it.

"What if Magnum PI was just Tom Selleck eating cooter" I AM DEAD BRO QUIT 😭😭

I grew a mustache while watching this video

"If you waited 3 years, You could've had a Fiero" Brilliant 👌

Mr. Regular, the section about how this car enhances your persona - good or bad - really struck a chord. Great video.

My dad had one of these back in his bachelor days after his business accidentally became successful. From what I've heard, this car pairs with a degenerate 80's lifestyle as well as a rich cabernet, a beautifully veined gorgonzola and a mound of finest Peruvian.

The 308 (and Pininfarina’s other designs of the era) being designed to accentuate the driver as opposed to drawing attention away from the driver and onto car itself is a really interesting takeaway. The low belt line and hood makes the cockpit look bigger and more important; all the lines pull to the center, and are simple, so as not to pull focus away; it makes the person seem more important. My eye naturally gravitates to the cabin, and it’s fascinating.

Tavarish getting PTSD flashbacks going doorless with this car on Car Trek.

That wheel and tire combo just perfectly filling up the wheel arches looks absolutely amazing

In the mid 1980s I worked at a high tech company with a lot of IPO millionaires. The then engineering VP had a red 308 until it literally did a burnout; catching fire from some mechanical issue. Sadly our row of Porsches, Datsun Zs, Mazda RX7s (my 85 GSL-SE included) and Corvettes was greatly diminished.

"Name me, if you can, a better feeling than the one you get when you’ve half a bottle of Chivas in the bag with a gram of coke up your nose and a teenage lovely pulling off her tube top in the next seat over while you’re doing a hundred miles an hour in a suburban side street" PJ O'Rourke delivering the Ferrari to LA for the Magnum PI show

I think I learned more about Tom Selleck than the car. Im not complaining.

When it comes to the 308, everyone else thinks of Magnum, P.I.; I think of Christie Brinkley

Fact: in 1998 I fixed the air conditioning on a 1985 308 GTSi quattrovalvole when one of my college professors found out that I was good with wiring and could read Italian. Fact: The owner's manual has a complete set of schematics (in Italian) on the flyleaf. Fact: the only car to date I've ever worked on that simultaneously had blade fuses, glass fuses, and ceramic fuses (think old VW) all in the same steel access panel under the passenger dash that could shatter your kneecaps if it ever dropped. Fact: At 6'2" and 250 lbs and size 13 shoes at that time, I can absolutely vouch nobody over 5'7" could ever comfortably drive this car. Fact: This did not stop me from test driving the car after fixing it and stopping at Taco Bell. Hint: the window opens very small; order burritos because a Nachos Bell Grande won't fit. Unrelated fact: My 8th grade science teacher was a dead ringer for Tom Selleck. So much so he was occasionally mobbed in public. So much so that when K-mart came out with a designer fragrance named Selleck, they hired him to sit for the magazine ads (mustache-down, several hotties adjusting his tie and lapels) as the real Tom Selleck wasn't available.

"Beaver retriever" is golden. It made me laugh so hard that I pulled a Tommy Fencedemacker.

On a long enough timeline, everything becomes REGULAR.

A truly beautiful car, no matter the color. Your prose about what this Ferrari can do for the driver is beautiful, too Also: the P.I. in Magnum P.I. now stands for “Pussy Imbiber”