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I always thought it was funny that on a small island, a six-foot-four man wearing loud Hawaiian shirts drives around in a bright red Ferrari with the top off...and his job was a Private Investigator. 😂😂😂

I read that Ferrari was so pleased with the positive press, they gave Tom Selleck one. Glad to see you back...your extensive research is very much appreciated.

When I was in high school my teacher had a full size cardboard cutout of Tom Selleck in her classroom. This was 1982 she was 45 and FAT, and there was no ring on her left hand, so we all kind of understood what was going on. Thomas William Selleck was born in Detroit in January 1945, but lived in Los Angeles, like most actors. He's 6'4 inches tall, and this created a problem because this is a VERY small car; A Porsche 928 was considered for the roll of the "car", but since a 928 has a V8 engine with a crossplane crankshaft it sounds like any other American car. The producers wanted the more exotic sound and look, so the 308 was used instead, and the cars used in the series had the targa roof. I owned a 928 for 19 years, and it was a great car, never giving me any real problem. But I drove a Ferrari 308 in 1995, and since I was a skinny dork (6'1" and 145 pounds), I had no problems fitting into the car. The 308 drove like an old pickup truck with no power steering, and the clutch was very heavy! I asked the owner if this was right? My head was close to the roof, and it was more like "folding" into the car. That thing is SMALL. Tom at 6'4" and 200 pounds must have needed to be helped into that thing! That's why they always had him driving with the Targa roof off. A 928 would have worked far better for him. And after driving a 928 it was obvious that it was the better car, but this is television. Great video!

I've read the comments to see how this has come about, back on YT again, I'm so pleased it has been worked out because your content is excellent. Welcome back my friend, wishing you all the luck this time and like others, I'm here for the long haul.

Good you see you posting again, its certainty been awhile.

Glad to see you’re back. I really enjoy watching your videos

Robin Masters other Ferrari 308 would've been worth a mention , his green one,number plate Robin 2 , it appeared in at least one episode maybe more , Robins arrogant Nephew used it when he came to visit.

there are Magnum PI branded Ferrari plastic model kits from Revell available on the used market

I recall Selleck being interviewed on the set of Magnum PI back in the day and the interviewer noted Selleck was driving a Porsche and it was parked up beside his on screen Ferrari that day.

I saw a Mera Fiero 308 for sale next to an actual 308. From a distance it looked good. My friend could not tell the difference from 10 feet or so away. It was the best looking one I ever saw.

Love your vids. Glad you are back !

Glad to have you back! Good luck!

Two uploads at the same time? It's got to be Christmas 😊

Fact #11 they actually did use a very large shoehorn to get TS into the car

'Magnum, you're not taking the ferrari after wrecking it last week do you hear me' yeah how many times that work 😅😅😅 as we know that in the end of every episodes he still drives it my friend.

One of the iconic cars from the 80"s.

In the first episode(I think, first season for sure) Magnum sheds the top off and leaves it on the side of the road.

#6 You can also drive a Ferrari 306 on Hawaii in Test Drive Unlimited 2. Great game btw!

Umm your information kinda contradicts itself, take a look at the vin numbers listed at 8:56 chassis 29109 34567 38527 and 57685, then stop at 8:59 28251, meaning its an earlier car, also the ones listed are all red and tan that's red and black, unless that's the green metallic one they had in one of the episodes and its been resprayed red, that's not one of the real ones and the first ones in aulstralia, I found the video with the owner who actually has a speech impediment but seems like a really nice guy, and he talked about how they bumped I think the camera equipment or one of the walls at the start of the show, and ferrari wanted 7 grand to fix the grill on the back so they just wielded it back on for 500, as their was some serious price gauging going on given where the car was located and the 308 was 70 thousand dollars back then, a testarossa 90, which I think went up to a 110 or that might have been the countach also the quattro valve motor formed the base of the 288 GTO's motor, which was turbocharged by the factory to put out upwards of 400 and some change for group B rally racing, that was then used on the F40, using that same motor, and not the 328's and I think theirs way more than a thousand left on the roads, like the person who made that list probably went off of the british numbers where you can track a car by its entire history and registry on one single plate, and when they dont get retaxed, they sometimes consider a car a write off when it isnt also early cars were fiberglass and featured 14 inch rims and tires, latter was 15 or so with bigger brakes and tires in addition to the motor changes, and the smog equipment they had fitted, also ferrari had just been bought out by fiat so their was alot of sort of parts sharing going on, and they were trying to find their footing with marcelli ignition and the like in addition to the oil crunch, so the more you could make with less the better, hence why the very first cars featured at the french autoshow and the first 200 or so were fiberglass on a steel tubular chasis and realistically your looking at about a 180 to 200 hp, but the main thing was it was a high revving motor, and it had a 5 speed which allowed it to reach about a 145 plus, when the vette could barely do about a 120 and it had a pretty decent 0 to 60 of about 6 and a half seconds despite the low power its kind of one of those things where you dont go off the specs' you drive it and see how it feels as its not about the figures, its what gets to the wheels, granted the 328, the upgraded version of it was kind of outgunned by the late 80's thanks to the corvette getting its power back up, and lotus doing the same and porsche being porsche, not to mention by that time lamborghini was out of the game, with the jalpa going out of production in the early 90s so it kinda got left in the dust, and with turbocharging kicking in, it just got worse hence why you hear this reputation of its not fast, when it is fast and even some idiot was trying to tell me a quattro doesnt have enough power to drift when I told him he should buy it to revive his drifting fleet as sometimes you just cant fix stupid, mind you an elise would smoke it from what the specs look to be

I saw a documentary on the Magnum show, and the actor who played T.C said Ferrari don't give cars to t.v. so they got a Ferrari body and put a V.W engine in it, and it kept breaking down.

3:27 $82,900 for a 308 depending on condition, historically, $25,000 via Forza Magazine 1999

Over 5000 examples in production is a lot for Ferrari. I think the most common model at the time. Although many of the modern models have exceeded this production. First was the Testarossa (1984) with over 7000 examples. Most notably the 360 and 430 were in even higher production before Ferrari deliberately reduced it, fearing the brand was losing it's exclusivity.

0:44 how did the producers switch to the 308 _qv_ Ferrari, and we went with it...?¿ I do not recall getting an explanation for the switch over to cars with *_black_* louvers, instead of *red* , but, yeahhhh.,.

First ferrari i got to drive was a 308 GTB

If Thomas Magnum had gotten his with the Quattrovalvole motor, he’d stop the baddies in no time; in 1987, Nintendo unveiled the hot home video game, crowned “Rad Racer”, which allowed you to choose between the Ferrari 328 and the Ferrari F1 race car, and the sequel, Rad Racer II, introduced in 1990, featured just the 328.

From what I've read, the 308/328 was pretty miserable to live with on a daily basis. The footwell was way too cramped (you needed tiny feet in order to fit), the pedals were situated too far to the right (in order to clear the left front fender well, which intruded significantly into the passenger compartment), and the HVAC system may as well been left off. Still...I think it's the prettiest of the mid-engined Ferraris. But boy, Selleck was definitely too tall for the car. Most of the shots, his head is sticking up above the windscreen header! 🙂

Welcome back my friend! 👊👍💪

Higgins WAS NOT Robin Masters. DB has stated several times that was not true, and there is an early scene in season 1 where you see Robin Masters hand while he talks to Higgins.

I also have seen a James Bond DB5 from Playmobile. If I didn’t know that my son would destroy it, I would have bought it for him…. But mostly for me. LOL

The Car Wizard just put his running and driving '78 308 GTB up for sale... $50,000... firm.

If you watched the show in order Higgins is not Robin Master Robin was Magnum's buddy from Vietnam that how he know him

Nit picking: the thumbnail is not a US 308. Ours had larger bumpers.

0:36 huh. I always thought the license plate said ROBIN1… I guess I better start watching reruns again 😕

Vittese do a lovely 1/43 scale 308 but you've got to cut the roof off yourself to make it a gts I think it's the best 1/43 out there

Beautiful car. Cars have come a long way. A 2023 honda accord will smoke this car in a race.

Do you know if christie brinkley used a selleck car in vacation?

Slow or not, this is still the only Italian car I really want to own. This show is 100% to blame.

Two of them ended up in the twin cities

My Infiniti STOMPS this car 0-60. Like, no contest.

92k miles? Ouch

US spec cars were slower than a v8 lx mustang of the same era....

GM was sued by ferrari for making kit model 308 .some still exist today

Reposting? All good? what gives?

Those cars didn't really have any HP. My Cummins diesel has more HP

he was too tall for the car. looked stupid, even back then.

I saw a 308 for $25k in the early '80s. I thought that was a good deal. I told my dad and he just laughed. As a daily driver he said the upkeep would kill the low price. Beautiful car though. He was biased though as he liked the Esprit.