Dino 206 competizone

As good as the Stratos design is, automobile design reached its asymptote with the Carabo, which came a few years before the Stratos.

 

Can't agree on that. I see in the current Murcielago and even in the Gallardo the ancestry of the Countach. Even the Zonda and Veyron owe their overall shape to the Countach IMO.

 

The Dino was built as a design study on top of a racing chassis, a hillclimb car, IIRC.......maybe Mr. G will chime in ....so while it doesn't have a racing history since becoming it's current guise, it would have one from the original car..

Good question!

 

Dino Competizione's motor ran at Le Mans in 66 but her chassis never raced. (034/10523)

After Villa d'Este I drive her 800 miles on the Historic Targa Florio. She's back in Turin for a final check and soon will head back to the US.

Her wings are original.
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Best to use the "odd" VIN for the NY License Plate, then!!

I'm thinking I need to 'tag along' on one of those laps, Sir.......that certainly looks like a wonderful time.

As you reminded me, life is short....

 

It is my friend.

 

She arrived by Boat...
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Just look at that shape. Such curves. Que bella.

 

The Countach was produced from 1974 to 1989, and was sold in good quantity throughout. It also popularized the wedge shape, cab forward design, the Pirelli P7 and was Marcello Gandini's crowning achievement.

Maybe later on the text the author explains himself better? Or is this just another piece full of platitudes?

 

Seconded.

 

I must disagree; I have a Stratos! In truth, however, I think the Stratos can be described as ferocious, purposeful, striking, but not "pretty" or "beautiful," as the Competizione and the 206/246 Dinos can be. The Stratos is an acquired taste, probably.

Julian Thomson, the designer of the Lotus Elise (another acquired taste), took styling cues from earlier Loti, of course, but also the 246 Dino (he owned one then, probably still does). He wrote though that, in a small car intended to sell at the Elise's price, something as pretty as the Dino might end up being a hairdresser's car, the lines that worked so perfectly in the Dino - larger and addressing a premium market - working against it. So he sought to bring into the design something of the ferocity of the Stratos.

It is quite strange that, in a YouTube clip discussed in the 206/246 board, a U.S. commentator picked the 5 ugliest cars at the show at the Quail Lodge last year. He selected 2 or 3 ghastly ones, but then ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6BycLhSjjw&NR=1

The Competizione to me is quite beautiful, picking up some of the lines of the 206SP (my most wanted car), so that video is quite strange. A function of time and age, perhaps?

Andy
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It is quite strange that, in a YouTube clip discussed in the 206/246 board, a U.S. commentator picked the 5 ugliest cars at the show at the Quail Lodge last year. He selected 2 or 3 ghastly ones, but then ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6BycLhSjjw&NR=1

Andy[/QUOTE]

That guy is a complete and utter jackass who knows nothing of any merit or value when it comes to automobiles.

Best,
Dave

 

That guy looks and sounds like he'd be more suited to deliver commentary on a pink rally than be anywhere near a historic motorcar. What did that programme nett on advertising?

 

The site probably generated a great number of hits because of those comments. Probably intentionaliy controversial. I like the F40 as well, although, like the Stratos, "beautiful" and "pretty" would probably not be used to describe it.

What issue Octane, Sean (Boxerman)? I seem to have missed the article.

By the way, the Stratos replicas unfortunately rarely have the Ferrari V6 engine and gearbox, or the correct suspension, so may not deliver the same driving experience. The D-Type (Lynx and Proteus) and GT40 (Superformance) seem very close to the originals, however.

Andy

 

Please don't make me choose between two such fantastic designs.
The Stratos has the advantage of being a car that I could, at least conceivably, own

 

Billy Strayhorn, written when he was in high school.

That line could have easily been about the Dino (or the Stratos), VIZSLA.

 

I like the Stratos very much. I'd love to own "Safari". Chris's car was breath taking and the Color was Wild. I also like Villa d'Este and it's Judges. They are real Car Guys. They liked Dino giving her a Special Mention and choosing Chris's car was like choosing Per Se over Jean George. Both are pretty Cool.

Dino has over 2K miles on her now including the Historic Targa Florio and she's out and about now that the winter salt is washed away.

As for LA Times Dan, some people are their own punishment.

 

Boxerman/Beta If beauty is as beauty does, the Stratos wins hands down. It had an amazing race record, and it would be hard to find any Ferrari powered car that so often won races over so a large span of years M

 

I looked it up, studied the graphs and still don't understand what it means. I assume, in the context in which used, the word means the point when a change (or a trend) commenced? Oh well.

 

The transition from curve to wedge shape cars.

 

Ah, thank you, Jim. It is incredible that you have the Competizione, very well known to enthusiasts even here in the tropics.

Andy