Houston Dino 04274

As you may know, Lake Travis is very low right now. My boat is on Lake Austin which is constant level and I'd be happy to take you skiing. I've got the blue Dino GT (00416) you saw at Moorespeed that David and his team restored for me. Drop a note if you get this way.

 

thanks for posting....
love the black painted door panels

 

Well at least the engine is very pretty.

 

A lot to do back to its originality..

 

In Jon's hands, the rest of the car will eventually match the beauty of the engine.

 

Ferda does great work!

 

Didn't Shawn own this Dino at one time? I seem to recall photos of it (with this license plate) sitting under a tarp near the side of a house or shop? TIA.

 

Shawn sold a Dino! Damn, I guess becoming a father changes all kinds of things.

 

wonder what $ shawn sold it for?

 

Next to a damaged Lamborghni.....


Good to see this one finally see some attention, after being stationary for so long.
Hard to say what games were being played in those days...maybe just the owner sinking deeper than he ever imagined.

 

You'd better inventory...I think the last trip was to find the steering wheel.
Not that you can't handle it!

Catch up sometime in Austin, at Lucy's Chicken!
I could have given you a 308GTB to drag home....LOL!

I'd like those Ferrari bar badge and horse, the 'crooked pony" is perfect.

 

"Is that a Mustang?"

 

This is a cool car with a cool story....

It's a great car to be made into something better.

Jon will make this car far better than anyone else would.

I have and know lots of details on the history. I have old pics of the car as well.

I will be sharing the info with Jon, he has lots of it, but I have found more when moving.

The pics look bad, but are reflective of the car being moved around quickly and being in a storage situation. The rebuild will be fun to watch.

 

.....but it did have records and history...that is far better than some silly toolkit or operational set of instructions....

I would bet that the owners manual produced today would far surpass anything proper and historic.....

 

JRV had his good points, but also his bad.

I can't think of a better situation, with full documentation, of JRV taking advantage of a VERY long term customer than this car. It was really bad and ultimately is how I came to being the owner of the car.

Interestingly, I have still never gotten a straight answer from ANYONE about what happened to the Miura.... Even here on F-Chat, no one seems to answer the question, so I quit asking.

When it comes to the Miura, at the time I was seriously looking at buying his Dino, JRV was trying to push me to buy the Miura instead. He wanted $110k for it, but was flexible, if I let him do service work for other cars. Candidly, it was out of my price range, I didn't spend as much time as I would now with his "Documents" and ""Records" and "Photos", etc.....

It was a very nice car, but my layman standards, and drove well without issues. He came to own the car from his former next door neighbor. She sold it him for cash and exchange for services. He story I was told was that her deceased husband had trained JR on lots of stuff and employed him prior to him moving to Houston to work with Forristall (lots of cool details here), the neighbor was Steve McQueens personal mechanic and took the car as payment for maintenance on other stuff and bills after the car had become dated and not worth messing with. He kept it, tinkered with it, and when he died, JR worked out a deal to buy it.

I am not vouching for he story, but that is what JR told me. Does anyone know what became of it?

 

.......well, being over budget on a new home kinda helps too.....

 

He was a character, huh? The Ferrari world is full of them. Probably best to let this one die, nothing good will come of it.

Whut! Dude, you need to fire the builder. Oh, wait a minute...

Dale

 

This is going to be fun.

 

Well, let's rephrase that, options and specs changed from initial budget......PRETTY SUBSTANTIALLY......

But on the flip slide, the house is great and marriage is even better.