A bit of a mess!

Ooo boy! Lots of work... Just curious, what's the chassis number?

 

Wow!, that looks grim, worse than mine! good luck, i forsee a lot of new metal required.
p.s. not long been back from delivering my tub and chassis to sandblasters, progression at last!

 

Don't worry at least you have one.

If you saw the Mike Sheehan (broker) newsletter this week he is looking for 3 dino 246 GT cars. Market forces seem strongly upward.

 

Oh my..the ravages of time!!!! However, it's nice to see that another Dino will be back from the dead.

Good luck!

 

Nothing the $120K can't fix. Just amortize it over 20 years and make it great. Enjoy the journey.

 

The wheels look like they came off of a clown car. What are they? Also, the photo makes the rears look more dished than the fronts. Are they?

Mark

 

I like the wheels as a driving pair, Gotti's were all the rage in the 80's. Since you have the flares option I assume you have the original Campagnolo wheels with "Dino" script in that stashed storage, right?
Lucky you, Tom Shaughnessy just sold a set of 4 for $3k USD.

For some reason I also like the shields on the fenders, I don't know why.

 

When I was looking for a 246 some time ago, I was told by a well-known classic Ferrari dealer, that there were no chairs-and-flares GTs, only GTSs. For some time, I've labored under that impression and indeed have only seen C&F GTSs. If this is indeed a C&F GT, then I was misled.

 

i know of no us spec chairs and flairs coupe. keep in mind the chairs option didn't become available until late 72. the flairs option was available starting in mid/late 72. usa spec cars weren't really common until the series three or "e" series dino. with this being the case, very few dino's had both options. most usa cars that exist today with these options aren't factory original. let's face it, if you were to re-upholster an interior, would you not put in the daytona style chairs?

as for cars from other markets, the flares on coupes was very popular in the uk. i wouldn't be surprised if euro coupes exist with both options.

 

Maranello Concessionairs retrofitted a few cars with chairs and flares, maybe they did it order on new cars as well. Would that make them official chairs and flares cars?

 

When I bought my chairs & flares GTS (#05828, now in NYC) many years ago, I was specifically looking for a factory-original car and spent quite a while researching the subject. I don't know as I'd go so far as to say that "most" US cars with both chairs & flares aren't original, but certainly many cars had Daytona inserts added later (and some of those flared fenders aren't original either). FWIW, although the seats & flares were separate options, I've only ever seen one US car (a white GTS) that had factory flares with standard seats. As for coupes, yes, the flares were more popular in the UK, but there were Euro coupes with flares and perhaps a VERY few US cars too (I vaguely recall a red one in Colorado years ago- at least I think it was a US version).
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Al, mine (07528) is a UK GTS supplied new with flares but standard seats and is one of approximately 11 flared arch GTS cars supplied new to the UK.
Regards GP.
p.s. Al i will contact you.

 

Back in '73, when my dad started getting serious about buying a Dino, I remember looking at a Ch.&Fl. car in H.R. Owen's London showroom. A long time ago, obviously, but I was pretty impressed! My recollection is that it was a silver GTS. We ended up getting the standard Verde Germoglio GTS (#07412) that we still have today.

 

Alternately, my car, a late '72, shipped from the factory with no flairs, but it did have Daytona style seats. They were blue originally.

DM

 

Yes, there were a lot of cars with the Daytona seats but no flares, but almost all of the flared-fender cars were pretty loaded with options. I'll bet the seats looked nice in blue- pretty rare.

 

This thread is looking pretty promising. Thank you for sharing!
Please let us know of the S/N.

 

Car left the factory with white paint, blue seats and red carpet. not so sure they looked all that great originally in that interesting color combo.

By the time I got the car they had been dyed black, and were shot. try as I might to revive them, it was no good.

They are in the competent hand of a fellow fchatter now. Maybe he'll find someone to fix them. Probably only cost twice what my replacement Daytonas did.

DM

 

Yikes, white with blue seats sounds nice, but RED carpets!?

 

Even our Verde Germoglio (light green) GTS came from the factory with red carpets!

 

Stranger than truth, and yet more bizarre than fiction . . .