| Author | Message | ||
| BobD (Bobd)
Member Username: Bobd Post Number: 510 Registered: 3-2001 |
Solly, can you pls keep this Dino thing (fakeys) quiet? If word gets out we're all driving Dino's, our values could drop like the NYSE. | ||
| Steven J. Solomon (Solly)
Member Username: Solly Post Number: 329 Registered: 6-2001 |
Oh would you all stop it already!! My Dino is as much a Ferrari as my 360, in fact, in historical importance, sound, ride and all other intangible factors, it is more of a Ferrari than many "Ferraris". Styling by Pinninfarina (who admitted that this was his favorite design for Ferrari), body by Bertone, Engine design by Vittorio Jano, probably the greatest Ferrari engine designer ever, and a long history of engine service in "real" Ferrari race cars (it was homologated for F-2). Who cares that that part of the engine was actually built by Fiat? The drivetrain is Ferrari, the lower unit is Ferrari (as opposed to the Fiat Dino which had the entire engine built by Fiat) , what's the problem here? If you want to be a real purist, then only front-engined 12 cylinder cars are "real" Ferraris. Sorry all you 308/328/348/355/Testarossa owners. You are driving fakeys. | ||
| Jim E (Jimpo1)
Member Username: Jimpo1 Post Number: 557 Registered: 7-2001 |
>I always loved Dino. It was great how he always came home & pounced on Fred. Pebbles was always being looked after by Dino too. What a fine pet he was.< LMAO @ John. Lets get some Dino the dinosaur stickers made up and send them to Frank. He can put them on his window! | ||
| John Delvac (Johndelvac)
New member Username: Johndelvac Post Number: 44 Registered: 11-2001 |
I always loved Dino. It was great how he always came home & pounced on Fred. Pebbles was always being looked after by Dino too. What a fine pet he was. Seriously, I think of Dino's as a separate company from Ferrari (Enzo did too). The V6 Dinos (246) were made to honor his dead son and to support the 4-banger race cars he no longer wanted to name after himself. As for the GT4...in retrospect, Ferrari wished they had not labeled it a Dino. They had to re-label in order to sell most of them. They were afraid the Bertone 4 seater would confuse the new image of 12cyl Ferraris. What intrests me the most about them is this - how is it that they made the 308GTB more uncomfortable and handle worse than the GT4? These Dinos may be under valued only because Magnum drove a GTS. You're right. I have no point. I'm just rambling. | ||
| Ernesto (T88power)
Member Username: T88power Post Number: 493 Registered: 2-2001 |
Yes.. that is why I stopped! Must be that lawyer syndrome... Ernesto | ||
| martin J weiner,M.D. (Mw360)
Member Username: Mw360 Post Number: 484 Registered: 5-2001 |
Ernesto, There is no value in arguing (or even discussing) with someone who has fallen in love with his own theory,no matter how silly that theory is ! | ||
| Frank Parker (Parkerfe)
Intermediate Member Username: Parkerfe Post Number: 1087 Registered: 9-2001 |
But Fiat owns both Ferarri and Dino. | ||
| Ernesto (T88power)
Member Username: T88power Post Number: 492 Registered: 2-2001 |
GM makes the Corvette, Dino does not make the Ferrari. Where is the logic in that? | ||
| Frank Parker (Parkerfe)
Intermediate Member Username: Parkerfe Post Number: 1085 Registered: 9-2001 |
Ernesto, then do you consider it silly to call a Corvette a GM car ? If not, then it is not silly to call a Ferrari or a Dino a Fiat . | ||
| Steve Smith (Steve308)
New member Username: Steve308 Post Number: 22 Registered: 2-2002 |
Well surely the only REAL Ferraris are the ones Enzo designed :~) ( "Pinninfarinachat.com" Got a nice ring to it - don't you think? ) | ||
| Ernesto (T88power)
Member Username: T88power Post Number: 491 Registered: 2-2001 |
An auto manufacturer does not have to make every single component of the cars it manufactures. If you logic were so, no single car on this planet could be called anything because almost everything is outsourced. The bottom line is that we call cars by what the manufacturer calls them. If Ferrari calls it a Ferrari, its a Ferrari. Its that simple. The logic of calling a Ferrari a Dino, when it fact it is a Ferrari is pretty silly. Funny how lawyers always complicate everything. Ernesto | ||
| Frank Parker (Parkerfe)
Intermediate Member Username: Parkerfe Post Number: 1083 Registered: 9-2001 |
Ernesto,Maserati is owned by Ferrari Spa and so was Dino back when the 206, 246 and 308 GT4 were being produced. And if you are going by where the car was made, then most all modern Ferraris should be called Pininfarinas with most of the older ones being called Pinin Farinas. Most all of the body and chassis are produced at the Pininfarina plant and then shipped to Ferrari Spa for assembley. For the most past Ferrari Spa only produces the engine and drivetrain with every thing else being outsourced from various venders. And, what should you call the Lancia Thelma which had an optional Ferrari engine. Or how about the Fiat Dino which also had a Ferrari engine. A car is not necessarily named after the company that makes the engine. If so, a Shelby Cobra would just be called a Ford as that is who made the engine. | ||
| Ernesto (T88power)
Member Username: T88power Post Number: 489 Registered: 2-2001 |
But all cars that are made by Ferrari Spa are FERRARI. I dont understand? Ernesto | ||
| TomD (Tifosi)
Intermediate Member Username: Tifosi Post Number: 1025 Registered: 9-2001 |
Frank That could be false advertising  I am sure your clients would love to hear you think of them as unwashed. lol Rgds | ||
| Frank Parker (Parkerfe)
Intermediate Member Username: Parkerfe Post Number: 1075 Registered: 9-2001 |
Tom, when you advertise you have to appeal to the unwashed who think of all cars made by Ferrari Spa as a Ferrari. | ||
| TomD (Tifosi)
Intermediate Member Username: Tifosi Post Number: 1018 Registered: 9-2001 |
I see Frank's ads in FCA newsletters all the time - it says he is a ferrari owner not a dino owner - what gives | ||
| BobD (Bobd)
Member Username: Bobd Post Number: 509 Registered: 3-2001 |
Jimpo, the boat DINster..... pardon me, Franko, the DINster! :-) | ||
| martin J weiner,M.D. (Mw360)
Member Username: Mw360 Post Number: 483 Registered: 5-2001 |
Jimpo, Don't encourage him. | ||
| Jim E (Jimpo1)
Member Username: Jimpo1 Post Number: 554 Registered: 7-2001 |
While bored to death pulling my kids on a tube behind the boat today, I happened to look at the steering wheel and noticed that it was a DINO! I must be warped, I thought of Frank and remembered my boat has a V8. Maybe he IS one to something. |