Manufactured in October 1987 and invoiced by the factory on 2nd November 1987, the car was finished in Rosso Fer 300/9 with Crema 3997 interior and red carpets. It was additionally optioned with air conditioning and a rear aerofoil-now colour coded.

Transported to Maranello Concessionaires Ltd in Thorpe, Surrey — one of the 250 non-ABS cars officially imported — it was then supplied to the then Ferrari agents in Scotland, Glen Henderson, where it was first registered as E555 XYS on 18th March 1988 to a 30-year-old company director from Glasgow,

The original list price was £45,597.50 plus delivery charges, number plates, and road tax. Optional extras included air conditioning at £1,681.87 and a rear aerofoil-now colour coded-at £280.31. With a five-year waiting period, the car was sold seven days later to a 34-year-old company director from Middlesex.

The car passed through the ownership of a further five registered keepers over the next 15 years before being purchased on 14th November 2003 by 50-year-old hotelier from Somerset.

The last owner, from Dorset, bought the car on 26th July 2006 with 21,000 miles recorded, from Brian Wiggins of Bramshaw Garage in the New Forest. Nigel Hudson formerly of the original Emblem Sports Cars and Nigel Mansell Sports Cars of Dorset has carried out the last sixteen services.

The car is complete with its original factory service book, handbooks, wallet, and tools. The car now benefits from a black leather dashboard and headlining with cream leather rear window surround. A stainless steel sports exhaust is now also fitted.

This is one of the last non abs equipped examples but benefitting from features found on later examples such a door piece external door handles, and carpeted underside of the rear

The car is complete as new with factory original service book, handbooks and tools as well as a file of past invoices.

History: The 328 GTS model, together with the fixed roof 328 GTB, were the final developments of the normally aspirated transverse V8 engine 2 seat series. The 328 figures in the model title referred to the total cubic capacity of the engine, 3.2 litres, and 8 for the number of cylinders. The new model was introduced at the 1985 Frankfurt Salon alongside the Mondial 3.2 series.

The Story

Essentially the new model was a revised and updated version of the 308 GTS, which had survived for eight years without any radical change to the overall shape, albeit with various changes to the 3 litre engine.

The 328 model presented a softening of the wedge profile of its predecessor, with a redesigned nose that had a more rounded shape, which was complimented by similar treatment to the tail valance panel. The revised nose and tail sections featured body colour bumpers integral with the valance panels, which reflected the work done concurrently to present the Mondial 3.2 models, with which they also shared a similar radiator grille and front light assembly layout. Thus all the eight cylinder cars in the range shared fairly unified front and rear aspects, providing a homogeneous family image. The exhaust air louvres behind the retractable headlight pods on the 308 series disappeared, coupled with an increase in the size of the front lid radiator exhaust air louvre, which had been introduced on the 308 Quattrovalvole models, whilst a new style and position of exterior door catch was also provided.

The interior trim also had a thorough overhaul, with new designs for the seat panel upholstery and stitching, revised door panels and pulls, together with more modern switchgear, which complimented the external updating details. Optional equipment available was air conditioning, metallic paint, Pirelli P7 tyres, a leather dashboard, leather headlining to the removable roof panel plus rear window surround, and a rear aerofoil (standard on Japanese market models).

In the middle of 1988 ABS brakes were made available as an option, which necessitated a redesign of the suspension geometry to provide negative offset. This in turn meant that the road wheel design was changed to accommodate this feature. The original flat spoke “star” wheels became a convex design, in the style as fitted to the 3.2 Mondial models, whether ABS was fitted or not.

Chassis and Engine

The main European market 328 GTS models had a tubular chassis with a factory type reference F 106 MS 100. Disc brakes, with independent suspension via wishbones, coil springs, and hydraulic shock absorbers, were provided all round, with front and rear anti roll bars. There were various world market models, each having slight differences, with right and left hand drive available.

The V8 engine was essentially of the same design as that used in the 308 Quattrovalvole model, with an increase in capacity to 3185cc, with a bore and stroke of 83mm x 73mm, and a type reference number F 105 CB 000. The engine retained the Bosch K-Jetronic fuel injection system of its predecessor, but was fitted with a Marelli MED 806 A electronic ignition system, to produce a claimed power output of 270bhp at 7000rpm. As with the preceding 308 models the engine was mounted in unit with the all synchromesh five speed transmission assembly, which was below, and to the rear of the engine’s sump.

The 328 GTS continued in production for four years, until replaced by the 348 ts model in the Autumn of 1989, during which time 6068 examples were produced in the chassis number range of 59301 to 83136, the GTS production outnumbering the GTB version almost five to one. The early part of the series was numbered in the Ferrari odd number road car chassis sequence, and later examples (post chassis number 75000) in the continuous number sequence.

                        Taken from Ferrari's own website

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