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Celebrity Car Death Match: Magnum PI’s Ferrari 308 GTS VS The Miami Vice Fake Ferrari Daytona Spyder (w/video)

Apr 17, 2013Celebrity Car Death Match14

Celebrity Car Death Match: Magnum PI’s Ferrari 308 GTS VS The Miami Vice Fake Ferrari Daytona Spyder (w/video)

Celebrity Car Death Match has taken on a life of its own. We’re getting proposed match ups, hate mail, and weirdo automotive fan clubs all riled up at this deal and that’s absolutely awesome. We’re still in the midst of round one here and today’s match up will bring us into the era of porn mustaches, pastel suit jackets, guys wearing too short shorts, and cocaine by the truckload. That’s right, it is 1980s super car (and fake super car time). Bust first…let’s look back at yesterday’s battle and declare a winner

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Yesterday’s matchup was the A-Team GMC van VS the Fall Guy’s GMC truck – Result –

Fall Guy truck DEFEATS the A-Team van, which is now serving as Murdock’s apartment “down by the river”. A shameful end for a once proud van.

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Today it is Ferrari VS Faux-rarri with the 308 GTS used in the series Magnum PI taking on the rebodied Corvette “Ferrari Daytona Spyder” from the hit television series Miami Vice. Let’s start out west in Hawaii and meet the 308. This car was a central part of the show and it was used to chase down bad guys, run from bad guys, cruise the island of Oahu, and in the video below cause the violent demise of a Pontiac GTO. It was shot at, swerved at, and driven hard by freewheeling private investigator Thomas Magnum. Incidentally, Magnum was a freeloader, enjoying the trappings of residence at author Robin Masters’ huge 200-acre Hawaiian estate. The car wasn’t even his and that could explain why he drove it like it was stolen much of the time. The Ferrari 308 must be like the 3rd generation Camaro of the prancing horse lineage because you can buy a cherry one for like $40,000 on eBay. That doesn’t take away from the fact that it was a Ferrari in Hawaii used for crime fightin’ and babe-scoring in the 1980s. One cannot take into account Thomas Magnum’s unsinkable ‘stache to decide who will win this death match. If we were having a mustachio death match, Magnum’s facial hair would reign supreme, but that’s a different site.
On the other side of the ring is the “Ferrari Daytona Spyder” used in the first couple seasons of Miami Vice. This car used to chase down Lambos, tail, embarrassing dry cleaning, and whoever Crockett and Tubbs deemed “people of interest” in their police work. This car was not an actual Ferrari, rather a C3 Corvette that was re-bodied to look like one. We’re going to say that as far as rebodied stuff goes, that is one of the better looking replicas we have ever seen (especially considering some of the pure and total junk we post) but with the C3 engine in there and about 150hp on a clear day, it wouldn’t be capable of running down much more than a bread truck. This car was only used for the first couple of seasons because the show then switched to fake Ferraris Testarossas based off of Panteras. The fakery stopped in 1986 when Ferrari gave the show a pair of Testarossas that were actually built in Modena and not central Florida. As you’ll see in the video below, the Faux-rrari often found itself chasing the exotics favored by Miami nose-candy dispersal engineers in the 1980s like the Lambo Countach, various Porsches, and even an Aston Martin or two.

SCROLL DOWN TO WATCH THE VIDEOS AND SEE THE PHOTOS THEN DECIDE! COMMENT ON THE ITEM BELOW IN THE COMMENTING SECTION AND TELL US WHICH CAR WOULD WIN A DEATH MATCH! THE MAGNUM PI FERRARI 308 OR THE FAKE FERRARI DAYTONA SPYDER OF CROCKETT AND TUBBS ON MIAMI VICE!

 

 

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14 thoughts on “Celebrity Car Death Match: Magnum PI’s Ferrari 308 GTS VS The Miami Vice Fake Ferrari Daytona Spyder (w/video)”

  1. Mr.Blue

    Wow……….another easy one………….Magnums Ferrari all the way………..while i loved MV and the faketona when it came out, Magnum rocked and his REAL Ferrari was AWESOME at the time! Did you see the sun come up Ivan? BLAM!!!!!

  3. The Outsider

    Not as easy as it first appears

    Sure, Magnum’s 308 is a real. Crockett’s Daytona is fake.

    But Crockett’s fake was used much more effectively . . . who among us can hear “In the Air Tonight” without instantly seeing the spinning Borrani wheel from Crockett’s fake in our minds’ eyes?

    And who doesn’t remember the “Motor City Madman” (Nugent) unexpectedly blowing up Crockett’s “Fakerrari”

    Yes, Crockett’s Corvette-in-an-Italian-suit with a Colombo V12 voiceover was the epitome of mid-’80s cool. Meanwhile, Magnum’s 308 wasn’t a particularly muscular one . . . and it could easily be outperformed by any number of more pedestrian mounts. And it was constantly upstaged by the scenery left over from “Hawaii Five-O.” But like Tom Selleck himself, Magnum’s prancing horse was solid, safe and dependable.

    Besides who would have really expected even a show as avant garde as “Miami Vice” to subject a half-million dollar original Daytona covert . . . one of the greatest road-going Ferraris ever — to the slings and arrows of TV production?

    Still, Magnum’s whip was a REAL Ferrari . . . and despite a valiant effort, that’s what makes the difference. Magnum’s 308 in a split decision.

  6. Chip

    I’ll go McBurnie Daytona. If I ever win the lottery, I’m building one with the full Guildstrand treatment, flared fenders and a TTLS under the hood. Mmmuahahaha! I always have loved that car.

  13. Norse

    Corvettona of Miami Vice.
    If Magnum had had something other than a poor-mans Ferrari, I would change my vote.

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