A 1989 Ferrari 328 GTS with just 283 miles on the clock is set to sell for around £150,000 when it goes under the hammer on October 16.
According to H&H Classics who is selling the car, the car was originally supplied by Ferrari’s main dealer in Rome before being quickly sold on for double the price.
A global crash hit the next owner and greatly affected the value and so the Ferrari was placed it into professional storage where it sat for 24 years, before being sold to a third owner just five years ago.
“A true time-warp”
H&H Classics said in the auction listing: “A true time-warp, the 328 GTS still has delivery stickers affixed to its driver’s side front and spare wheels.
“Understandably described by the seller as `nigh on as new’, this is the lowest mileage 328 GTS we have encountered.
“A worthy addition to any serious marque collection, chassis 81550 has recently been entrusted to Dick Lovett Ltd for a £5,000 cambelt service and brake overhaul etc should a new owner wish to have some appreciation for what it would have felt to drive a `showroom fresh’ Ferrari thirty years ago.”
Showroom fresh
Introduced at the September 1985 Frankfurt Motor Show, the Ferrari 328 shot straight to the top of the ‘junior supercar’ league.
Borrowed from the preceding 308, its tubular-steel chassis was equipped with double-wishbone independent suspension, front/rear anti-roll bars and potent disc brakes, while the adoption of a 288 GTO-specification steering rack brought notably sharper responses.
Transversely mid-mounted, the newcomer’s Tipo 105CB `quad cam’ 32-valve V8 engine displaced 3185cc.
Credited with developing 270bhp and 224lbft of torque, it was allied to five-speed manual transmission and gave 0-60mph in 5.5 seconds.