A very old Magazine!! And the dino price doesnt include the following cost options Power windows $270 Mettalic Paint:- $270 Leather:- $450 Daytona Seat Panels:-$115 AC $770 Campys and fender flares $680 Radio elec aerial and speakers $100 Nudge bar not mentioned! 1974 prices, that was an awful lot of money for a "DINO". In 74, whats a Dino, a car made by Ferrari sir.....thats OK then
Hey Tony according to my copy of MOTOR (an English magazine weekending July 10 1971 cost 12 1/2 p) a 246Gt cost £5483.63 plus £83.55 for the window lifters.And through out the whole article they keep refering to The Dino as a Ferrari and oddly enough they didnt get sued by the factory and forced to make a retraction. Ahh well simpler times.
Interestingly the Motor mag states the manufacturer as "Ferrari" Model "Dino 246GT" Agree with the price you quoted, the figures I COPIED come from " ROAD & TRACK" magazine 1974, 3 years later. So with a list price of $18K USD say about £9K GBP and three years of prices hikes it isnt that far off the mark i quess. Also that was for a GTS An earlier mag "Road & Track" 1972 had these price comparisions Dino 246GT $14,700 USD Pantera $9800USD Porche 911E $8145 Still a very expensive car!! Tony
lets see if this price list helps...notice the price for the daytona spyder.vs. c/4...the spyder is now 1-1.5 million...c/4 100k-150k...darn i wish i had gone for the spyder............ Image Unavailable, Please Login
Intersting these old mags Autocar March 8th 1973 Quote Students of Ferrari history will recall the original 1.6 litre DINO engine was a wet liner light alloy 65 degree V6 derived from Ferrari 1.5 litre F2 engine. The rules for the 1967 edition of F2 called for a 1.6 litre engine of not more than 6 cylinders and a series no fewer than 500 units. That kind of production was at least 4 times that of Ferrari production of all models at the time, and this is were Fiat saved the day. But for the rules requiring a 6 cylinder engine Ferrari would have opted for a V8 for this purpose on the grounds of its better balance. The engine was designed for production and was a true Ferrai in that it was laid down in the Ferrari drawing office and protypes were made in Maranello. The castings being produced and machined in the works. Fiat, however laid down the production tooling, the machine tools being moved to Maranello and housed in a new extension to the factory long before the Fiat dino was discontinued. Incidentally at the time that the Fiat dino was in production at Maranello, Ferrari was in production with earlier versions of the Ferrari Dino Coupe. Engines for this car were drawn from Fiat production and modified
Tony: I remember once reading that the agreed price point was set for the "Fiat" Dino to compete (slightly under priced) with a Porche 911 (it never worked however), and the "Ferrari" Dino priced between that and traditional Ferrari road cars. Enzo was supposedly very leery of the other Dino drawing customers away from his higher priced and so named marque. To add confusion, a batch of 2.4 liter "Fiat" Dinos were imported into the US by some fellow in the Northeast in the 1970s as "used" 1967 Ferraris and bearing installed Ferrari serial number plates, carring ficticious numbers to fool the DOT and EPA and thus resold complying with the earlier safety and emissions regime. That is why there are so few of the 200+ 2.4 Dino Spider survivors in the US today. M
Interesting. I had never heard this before. Is there any other evidence than an Autocar magazine article? Cheers, Julio
Thanks Michael interesting points. Julio - No i only read it this morning when looking for price comparisions. Need to dig deeper. Interestingly, there is an article i came across with details a journalist being test driven around Maranello in a 206GT. Reading between the lines it is EF car. The photo shows the dino on side view with a "prancing horse" badge on the front wing. !!!!!
Notice the "ferrari badge" on the front wing. This is Sergio Pinninfarina car at the factory Notice the quarter lights are missing and the car displayed is refered as SP car. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Call be a bore but this is Enzo's 206 being road tested by Car magazine in April 1969 That too has the Ferrari prancing horse logo on the front wiing!! So Enzo must have known? Image Unavailable, Please Login
As actual and titular head of Scuderia Ferrari he would be entitled to us the scudetto on anything he drove, and they certainly weren't ever delivered to dealers that way.. How's that Enzo's personal car? You've previously identified it as Pinin Farina's (no vent windows). (Why .doc format?)
Hi This is a seperate article in another magazine. The Pininfarina car was an article written by Paul Frere in Motor mag Jan 25th 1969 (which was supposed to be SP own car) The other article was in Car magazine April 1969 (supposed to be EF own car) Note the wheels are different so they are not the same car and are both 206GT's Quote:- "The 206GT with which we were entrusted was Enzo Ferraris personal car, which had already covered getting on for 20,000 miles without anything other than routine maintenance" I am only reporting what i read and must be taken on face value. Do not see any reason why both journalists should lie about it and the intruging fact is that both cars had prancing horse emblem on the front wing. Now theres one to discuss!!! The pictures are from seperate mags, i did it .doc format as my scanner would only do it that way. (not that up on the tekkie bit i am afraid.) Tony
i find it hard to believe that enzo drove 20k miles as he rarely left maranello. however, i think it would be smart for ferrari to say it was his car so that the journalists would be impressed with the "smaller, almost a ferrari" car. that could explain both angles
Could be and a valid point, but as i said we can only take what the journalist reported at the time. It could be that he loaned the car out to journalists and they racked up the miles. We are only guessing and trying to make a picture fit a story or vice versa!! It must be taken at face value, he was 71 in 1969 so it would be pretty difficult to get in and out of the 206GT. Tony Maybe a photo will materialise showing Enzo in the car!!
I'm sure this is the right place to ask... Please excuse my ignorance, but I noticed almost all Dinos only have one Pininfarina emblem on the side. Mostly on the right rear fender. Some only had one badge on the left side and I saw only few who had the PF emblems on both sides... Is this for a reason? Or do I see ghosts and did all Dinos originally receive two emblems and maybe many were lost?
No it's pretty routine to only badge one side with that emblem, the practice continues with the 308s! I accused my body shop of losing one once, and had to eat my words.......
No it varies by country, or year, I forget ..the US steel cars get left side emblems, but some fibreglass cars get the other side??? I'd really like to know the reasoning! LOL! It bothers some owners so bad the put another one on! I just left mine as is...... Maybe a thread on it in the 308 Section.
I believe that all 246 Dinos had the Pininfarina badge on the right side only. Daytonas, if I recall correctly, have the badge on the left side. Jim S.
I scrolled through my pic archive and noticed badges on 246s on left, right and both sides. I'm glad we know now that badges on both sides is wrong.
Its because Ferrari were so tight that they reasoned that it was only worth putting a badge on the nearside of the car so that passers by on the pavement could see the badge.
