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246 Dino move over - Fritz - 08-31-2013
my new fave modern sports car I'll never own.
but the blue is sweet
Re: 246 Dino move over - davester - 08-31-2013
Modern = (slightly) younger than billb?
Re: 246 Dino move over - cbelt3 - 08-31-2013
Please to help .. What is it ? Looks Jensen ish
Re: 246 Dino move over - Fritz - 08-31-2013
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bizzarrini
Re: 246 Dino move over - Rolando - 08-31-2013
That is a beautiful sculpture of a car
Re: 246 Dino move over - eustacetilley - 08-31-2013
There was a time when those cars went for peanuts, because they weren't, and still aren't, very good cars. (There's a ratty $4k Interceptor that's been bouncing around the Bay Area for at least a decade.)
I've driven a few of this breed, a couple of Interceptors, a Grifo, a Mangusta... I would _always_ prefer the Dino. It's a _sports_ car. The rest can be considered attempts at Grand Touring; attempts because one can always jam some piece of crude Detroit iron into a pretty body and charge a lot of money. It's cheap and easy.
Now, one could get creative... chop two cylinders off a Maserati V8, stick it in backwards and behind the transmission in the FWD Citroen SM, and then move the whole concept buttwards in the Maserati Merak.
I've driven the Merak, and owned the SM. Great fun. But the Dino is still better.
Eustace
Re: 246 Dino move over - Fritz - 08-31-2013
I'd be happy with either. At current prices I could have this for a jolly for a couple years, then sell for a Dino.
The Dino also languished as an oddity for quite some time before it became the desirable beats it is now,
When I first spied them, I coulda had one for $30G.
ah well.
Re: 246 Dino move over - eustacetilley - 09-01-2013
I first spied the Dino in High School. Actually two Dinos, on the way home from High School. One was a brown metallic; I didn't know the owner, and it was widely suspected at school that he was a Narc. But the second one- well that was something special. About a mile on the way home, was this metallic burgundy 246GT; it gleamed in the sun, even when it was raining. The owner was an orthodontist, and he pulled the best wire in town. He was appreciated by those of us who needed braces; he was quite liberal in the application of Nitrous, even if was only for an inspection.
And he was always ready to spare a few minutes off the clock to talk about that car, or any cars, really. Even the girls adored him, regardless of the car; and he was always the gentleman with them.
I was just perusing another old 1977 Ferrari Market Letter: $30k for a Dino is rather pricey:
"DINO 246 GT, 1972. Red w/black interior. New paint, no rust, fully restored. 62,000 miles. $13,500 or best offer"
(Another ad simply states : "250 GTE 2+2 S/N 3955 $4500")
Some may be put off by my comments about the Amer/Euro hybrids: my apologies, but there was one that stood out for it's sheer cheekiness- the Apollo GT. I drove one and it was pure git and shiggles. It was designed and assembled in Oakland, California, from quite a few Italian bits. The engine was Buick.
And there are these other, to me mythical, beasts, the Bristols. I've heard and read about these for decades, but I've never actually seen, much less driven one.
Thanks, Fritz.
Eustace
Re: 246 Dino move over - Fritz - 09-01-2013
I think I first got interested in cars in my mid 20's which would have been the mid 80's.
Until then, I drove a hippy f truck that I also tooled various bands with.
My interest in cars exploded like mad during my first tour in Europe.
I saw all kinds of stuff on the roads there. Made my eyes hurt.
Now the Concours shows kill me. Some of the 30's cars are spectacular works of art.
But maybe I can still find a mid 80s 308 or 328 in blue at an affordable price, save the maintenance.
just noticed a '74 246GTS in my town for $345. But alas It's red.
Re: 246 Dino move over - eustacetilley - 09-01-2013
I'm not sure what you consider affordable, but I've seen a bunch of Mondials for less than $30k, roughly equal to prices asked for old Dino 308GT4s. The Mondial is a much better car.
There are also the 400GTs. Until very recently, a good one only fetched ~$15k, mostly because of the 4 seats, the auto trans, and the fear of modern V12 complexity. Also the gray market factor.
But I think that the old prancing horses have passed through the trough of the current downturn; prices are definitely creeping back up.
Eustace
(Have you considered a yacht? Around here, prices are still dropping; a Santana 35 is now going for less than half of what was asked only two years ago. Plastic Classics of less than 25' are pretty much being given away, unless they have a trailer.)