Friday's Ferrari

I photographed this car in the paddock at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2018.

It's a 1980 Ferrari 308 GTS, powered by a 2,926cc V8 engine with twin overhead camshafts on each bank and two valves per cylinder. This car replaced the Ferrari Dino 246 GTS and was in turn replaced by the Ferrari 328 GTS.

The numbering of this car, and its predecessor and successor followed the then Ferrari convention of using the engine capacity then the number of cylinders. Hence the Dino 246 was 2.4 litres and 6 cylinders, the 308 was 3.0 litres and 8 cylinders, and the 328 was 3.2 litres and 8 cylinders.

On 3 June 2016 I showed a photograph of this car at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting at Oulton Park in 2015.

Friday's Ferrari

This is a car I photographed at the Aston Martin Owners Club meeting at Oulton Park in May 2015.

It's a Ferrari 308 GTS, a car that replaced the Dino 246 GTS and was produced between 1975 and 1985. It was superseded by an updated model, the 328 GTS.