History

In 1978, 2 Saudi Arabian brothers bought this 308 GTS new at Grand Prix Motors in Seattle (now called Ferrari of Seattle). The brothers had it serviced it there for many years and starting in the mid-80's they started bringing it to a British-Italian auto shop on Capitol Hill.

Around 1990, they decided to paint the car and had the owner/operator of the auto shop take the car apart for painting. Supposedly, it was running and driving normally at that time. Another local guy painted the car and did an OK driver-level job. The shop owner started putting the car back together and it sort of dragged on. I'm sure the words, "take your time, I'm not in a big hurry" were said at some point. Meanwhile, the two owner/brothers had moved back to the Middle East to count their millions and were not exactly pushing to finish the car. At one point around 1994 or so, the shop owner contacted the owners and said, "hey you guys have a big bill here what are we going to do?" The brothers said to keep the car and wipe out the bill.


The car then went in covered, indoor storage in various places around Cap Hill for the next several years waiting to be worked on. It sat for many more years. Eventually, the car moved 5 years ago to Sun Valley, ID and he passed along his shop space to KR. KR knew about the 308 in storage and tried over the years to buy it. Eventually, in early 2009, he was successful and the car came into KR's care. Under years of dust, the car is surprisingly good condition. A few months go by and KR realizes he doesn't want to devote that much of his life to get this car back on the road.

In mid-2009, I posted a message on a Ferrari forum that I was looking for a 308. Ideally, I wanted one in running good shape. KR saw my post and even though I didn't say I was looking for a project, he figured he'd give it a shot. Honestly, I really didn't need ANOTHER project. However, this was too good to pass up.