FERRARI 308 BUYER’S GUIDE

Posted on June 15, 2025 by MartynL

Hagerty’s Alisdair Suttie analyzes the ‘affordable’ machine from Maranello in this 1976-1985 FERRARI 308 BUYER’S GUIDE. One of the last real Ferraris manufactured when Enzo Ferrari was intimately involved in making decisions and creating new models, the 308, above, owned by Sarasota Café Racer's Graham Cave, bridged the gap between sports cars and Supercars. In many ways, it’s the entry-level or Junior Supercar that Tom Selleck turned into the true star of TV’s Magnum P.I. Fallen out of...

FERRARI 612-HORSEPOWER ROMA COUPE

Posted on December 11, 2023December 11, 2023 by MartynL

With the new Ferrari movie coming soon, Road Test Editor Howard Walker takes a 2024 FERRARI 612-HORSEPOWER ROMA COUPE for a spin. In celebration of the upcoming cinematic tribute to Scuderia Ferrari founder and Il Commendatore himself, Enzo Ferrari, I felt it my duty to get behind the wheel of one of Maranello's' latest and greatest. So let me introduce you to la bella Roma. But first the movie. Unless you've been living a yurt in Tristan da Cunha, you'll know that Ferrari, starring ...

LOYAL FERRARI 308 GTBi OWNER

Posted on July 29, 2022July 29, 2022 by MartynL

Ed Cashman was still in the U.S. Navy when he saved up to buy his first Ferrari: a ‘81 308 GTBi, purchased new from a North Carolina Ferrari dealer. A LOYAL FERRARI 308 GTBi OWNER, he still owns it! For 41 years, Cashman’s 308 has seen its share of admiration among car enthusiasts and won numerous regional and national car awards. It was displayed in 1994 at the Ferrari Club of America National meet in Monterey, winning Best in Class, and then invited to show on the 18th Green at the Pe...

CLAUDE LELOUCH: FERRARI RENDEZVOUS REDUX

Posted on May 22, 2020 by MartynL

Ferrari SF90 Stradale and Charles Leclerc protagonists in a unique short film - CLAUDE LELOUCH: FERRARI RENDEZVOUS REDUX - to be shot in Monaco on what was to be one of F1’s major events. Some appointments in the calendar cannot be forgotten. Even under the most difficult of circumstances, they cry out to be honored and transformed into an opportunity, to create something truly unique and memorable. With this in mind on Sunday morning, on the day that the Formula 1 Grand Prix was to take place ...

CLASSIC FERRARI: DRIVING AT FIORANO

Posted on October 20, 2019October 20, 2019 by MartynL

At the Ferrari Classiche Academy you can drive vintage Ferraris that helped to create the legend of the Prancing Horse. Each course at the Ferrari Classiche Academy is held over two days at the Fiorano Circuit and enables participants to explore the origins of the Maranello-based company. Drivers will get to learn the techniques used to drive cars produced before electronics had entered the automotive world. Ferrari’s Classiche Academy - CLASSIC FERRARI: DRIVING AT FIORANO - is divided into diff...

SARASOTA, FL: SUNSHINE & SUPERCARS!

Posted on September 29, 2019September 29, 2019 by MartynL

Presented by Sarasota’s Ferrari Drivers Group, the Exotic Car Festival at St. Armands Circle benefits Flight to the North Pole, a local Manatee County Sheriff’s office charity for terminally ill children. Organized by Jurgen Otto and Joe Brielmann and assisted by a cadre of volunteer enthusiasts many, like Otto and Brielmann, members of the international car guy lunch group, Sarasota Café Racers. While the event yesterday, SARASOTA, FL: SUNSHINE & SUPERCARS! one of two Exotic Car Festivals p...

‘17 ALFA ROMEO GIULIA QUADRIFOGLIO: FOUR-DOOR FURY!

Posted on April 2, 2017May 15, 2017 by MartynL

Intrepid tester and Alfa owner Dan Scanlan blogs about Alfa’s latest Giulia. ‘It’s a superbly capable sports sedan, an absolute blast to drive despite some tiny flaws.’ I love Alfas and own an ‘88 Alfa Romeo Milano Verde, the Quadrifoglio four-leaf clover-badged ancestor of the Giulia and its last rear-wheel-drive model until now. When Alfa Romeo left the U.S. in 1993, its only two models were an aging Spider and a sleek front-wheel-drive 164 Sport sedan. Neither was a ringing reminder of ...

MONTEREY MADNESS: JET CENTER REVIVAL!

Posted on August 31, 2016May 15, 2017 by MartynL

Mike Matune never misses a party – even when he’s covering Monterey Car Week. Twenty-five years ago Molly & Gordon McCall invited a few like-minded friends to a gathering of car people to kick off Monterey’s Car Week. Begun as a shop party with a collection of cars, it grew from one hanger to another and then another. Along the way aircraft were incorporated along with the finest in cuisine and spirits. Today Motorworks Revival is still going strong with no signs of slowing. Far more th...

MONTEREY MADNESS: SALES DOWN; EXHILARATION UP!

Posted on August 29, 2016May 15, 2017 by MartynL

Here are Jim Palam’s top ten picks, just a fraction of the magnificent exotica that populated the Monterey Peninsula during Car Week. 1953 Ferrari 250MM Vignale Spider ‘Pebble Car’ on Ocean Avenue in Carmel. If you were among the many thousands of automobile enthusiasts zipping around the auctions, races, shows and events in the Monterey Peninsula this August, you may have been struck by this of many befuddlements: $49 hotel rooms renting for $549! Plus Lengthy hikes from your car to e...

MID-OHIO VINTAGE GP: SNAKE BITE & SPORTS CARS!

Posted on June 30, 2016May 15, 2017 by MartynL

Chronicles’ Mike Matune is trackside at the SVRA vintage GP, held in conjunction with one of the hobby’s most exciting single-marque club events – SAAC 41. The Shelby American Automobile Club held its 41st convention in concert with SVRA’a Mid-Ohio GP. In addition to shows, open track events and dinners there was an SAAC-only race. Curt Vogt would take top spot home in his 1970 Mustang Boss 302, top, followed across the finish line by pole sitter, Scott Hackerson’s ‘67 Mustang. Here they le...