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I'm just greedy - I like them both!
I thought there was a red Dino Spider for sale in the UK on c&c recently but it looks like it's gone, there's one for sale in Italy though, plus some tempting Coupes...
https://www.carandclassic.com/cat/3/69/dino/
No too seem to be exactly alike and the seat design is shared with the Espada.
I thought there was a red Dino Spider for sale in the UK on c&c recently but it looks like it's gone, there's one for sale in Italy though, plus some tempting Coupes...
https://www.carandclassic.com/cat/3/69/dino/
No too seem to be exactly alike and the seat design is shared with the Espada.
At Cadwell a few years ago I was chatting to a Dino Coupe owner. I remember him telling me that Lincolnshire , a county one associates more with John Deere than Italian exotica , has a number of Fiat Dinos . Which is both strange and charming . I'm at Cadwell on Saturday and Sunday so will see if more appear .
moffspeed said:
Don’t forget that the only reason these Dinos existed was to provide The Old Man with a run out of 500 V6 Ferrari engines so as to satisfy homologation needs to go F2 racing.
Fiat made the engines I believe and they had Fiat cast in the blockP5BNij said:
Black coupe; https://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1566324 as per the Italian job Edited by wpa1975 on Wednesday 3rd May 13:57
galro said:
moffspeed said:
I have always thought the frontal treatment of the drop head Dino is exquisite- nothing quite like it.
You also have the Fiat Sportiva by Moretti with basically the same treatment.
The hardtop for the Spider looks good too...
Edited by P5BNij on Wednesday 3rd May 14:54
coppice said:
At Cadwell a few years ago I was chatting to a Dino Coupe owner. I remember him telling me that Lincolnshire , a county one associates more with John Deere than Italian exotica , has a number of Fiat Dinos . Which is both strange and charming . I'm at Cadwell on Saturday and Sunday so will see if more appear .
I think there was a well known specialist of these in that part of the world 20 odd years ago. The name Malcolm rings a bell.One of my mates went to visit a couple of times for some reason.
I'm sure the same guy built a Ferrari P3 replica that may or may not have had a Renault Alpine turbo V6 in it.
A really good video clip of a Dino Spider in Ireland...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttmXmgpMaHU
The Brooklands road test book on them is well worth a punt...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fiat-Dino-Brooklands-Road...
As is this compilation of brochure and press photos,although the text is all in Italian...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fiat-Dino-1966-1972-Aless...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttmXmgpMaHU
The Brooklands road test book on them is well worth a punt...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fiat-Dino-Brooklands-Road...
As is this compilation of brochure and press photos,although the text is all in Italian...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fiat-Dino-1966-1972-Aless...
Absolutely love both the Coupe and Spyder, but with a distinct preference of the Spyder.
The front treatment and curvaceous lines remind me a lot of the 'Dino Berlinetta Sperimentale' that Aldo Brovarone designed when he was at Pininfarina and that was shown at the 1965 Paris motor show.
(this was sold at Rétromobile in Paris in 2017 for 4.4 million euro!)
Somewhere between 10 and 20 years ago, I was considering getting one but was scared off by the 'Fiat prices with Ferrari maintenance cost' that somebody told me I'd face. Guess that sorted itself, and I've been kicking myself ever since.
(and in a somewhat cynical way, in the mean time, I've gotten a Maserati which has delivered F-car maintenance costs up until now)
A previous boss has a 2 liter Spyder, because it has the aluminium engine instead of the more heavy yet more torquey 2.4.
Sounds absolutely divine!
The front treatment and curvaceous lines remind me a lot of the 'Dino Berlinetta Sperimentale' that Aldo Brovarone designed when he was at Pininfarina and that was shown at the 1965 Paris motor show.
(this was sold at Rétromobile in Paris in 2017 for 4.4 million euro!)
Somewhere between 10 and 20 years ago, I was considering getting one but was scared off by the 'Fiat prices with Ferrari maintenance cost' that somebody told me I'd face. Guess that sorted itself, and I've been kicking myself ever since.
(and in a somewhat cynical way, in the mean time, I've gotten a Maserati which has delivered F-car maintenance costs up until now)
A previous boss has a 2 liter Spyder, because it has the aluminium engine instead of the more heavy yet more torquey 2.4.
Sounds absolutely divine!
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