A friend in New York is looking for a Dino. He is a serious buyer for the right car.
Oh boy. The right car is a low miles car with no mechanical issues, a perfect body, and impeccable history. All books and tools, extensive service records and it would be really nice if it had the original chairs and flairs option. Oh, and if you can prove that Phil Hill or Mario Andretti owned it, that wouldn't hurt either. Sorry, we all know I'm kidding, sort of. Oh, and price must be at the low end of the market, buyer has $125K he can spend. Can we make it a GTS?? Please?? D
Call Autosport Designs In Huntington, New York 631-425-1555 speak with Antoine Crettol. Is knows hiis stuff.
As Dave M. said, "Oh boy," (to say the least). HERE WE GO AGAIN!!! To save a teensy, weensy bit of time and a lot of pointless posts, ask your friend to make sure he has: 1. AT LEAST $150,000 ready to spend on a 246GT (with more for tax and tip); or 2. AT LEAST $175,000 (now maybe more like $185,000) to purchase a GTS; or 3. AT LEAST $200,000 to purchase a chairs and flares GTS. 4. Then, before purchasing a car, your friend needs to spend up to a couple hundred or so to buy a few books. The following come to mind - Dean Batchelor's Illustrated Ferrari Buyer's Guide (perhaps the best quick read on Ferraris in general, including an invaluable introduction on what to look out for when purchasing any Ferrari - my favorite is an early edition of the book - 1981 or 1982, I think), Ian Webb's book, Ferrari Dino 206GT, 246GT and GTS, and Anthony Curtis's book, Ferrari Dino. These books will help your friend organize and focus his search. In the end, he may decide that he'd really rather have a different Ferrari that may be more modern or more reasonably priced. 5. Several thousand dollars to travel to look at several Dinos and pay for PPIs by experienced mechanics familiar with Dinos. You might also consider spending a little extra for a body man to look at any prospective purchase. 6. Get a subscription to the Ferrari Market Letter (or at least borrow some recent copies from another subscriber). 7. And perhaps more importantly, at least to the FCHAT community, have your friend post on FCHAT for himself, rather than having you to continue to post on your friend's behalf. The reason I have provided this rather lengthy response to your post is that most FCHATTERS are ready and willing to help and provide leads or advice, but so many 13 year-old posers (and a few who are more than 40 years old) come cruising through here who post WTB threads that lead to nowhere. Finally, I admit that I am suspicious all day long of posts that start out with "WTB a Dino" or "Looking for a Dino" in the heading. Please prove my suspicions are unfounded. Seriously, have your friend post here directly. Otherwise, we pretty much all will remain skeptical of you and your friend's intent and statements, regardless of whether our concerns are warranted or not.
I'm always surprised at these threads. It only takes money. The hidden code is "I'm looking for a deal on a 246". There's plenty of cars out there all the time.
Truth be told, a phone call to any of the authorized Ferrari dealers will find you a Dino. A call to Mike Sheehan will also get it done. Probably could hire any one of a number of guys who post here to dig one out. Not hard to find. UNLESS you're trying to pry one out of the hands of almost anyone who posts here. D
I can't tell you how many times I went to Newport Imports or Circle Porsche as a 13 year old dreaming of a Dino or 911. Thank goodness the salesmen were patient, gave me brochures, started the engine up and let me sit in them. Those experiences are still with me. I'm encouraged that there are some 13 year olds interested in Dinos. It took me a long time to afford a Dino and at times it was probably hard to descern whether I could afford it or not. I have no problem sharing my leads or limited knowledge. I usually get back much more than I give. Freeman
Tell your friend that never in History have dinos been so highly priced for such a long period of time as now.. There were $$ spikes, before, But they are up there to stay now! $125,000.00 will get you the jack and tool kit now!
GUYS...GUYS....GUYS..... Come on now, we don't need to all go off on a tangent at once. If nothing else, we might have a new member to have new questions for us to debate. Do we really have to throw them under the bus this soon?
It seems my post was deleted or disappeared. Not entirely sure why but since this posting was of similar nature I wanted and hope it could continue. I assure you I work for a shop and one of our customers is looking for a Dino and has asked us to help find one. Again he is looking for a GTS and preferably a chairs and flairs. We are in New York and have checked out the 2 already at Autosport designs and the buyer is not interested in those. So we are still looking to find him a fine specimen of a Dino gts. Again any help for leads is greatly appreciated! Thanks, Tom
Freeman, We've ALL shared leads here. At least I think we have. I guess the issue was the generality of the question struck me as sort of, well, a bottom feeder kind of question, without a lot of substance. That having been said, I would note that the OP has not returned to this thread, so I think that's an indicator of his seriousness. D
Maybe, just maybe, the post-mortem is a little premature. The OP posted something in December 2010 that suggests he already owns a Dino - 12-15-2010, 06:59 PM speedh Rookie Not Subscribed Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 22 Replacement Bumpers -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I had to replace the rear bumpers on my US spec '73 Dino. I got them from Orlando at La Scuderia Rossa in Rome. His e-mail is [email protected]. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- He doesn't post that often, so he might simply be a busy guy.
yup...and the seller will throw in all the rust for free. seems to be many examples of the $125K Dino being no more than a project car...just a starting point for a ground up.
Yes, I haven't posted because I am busy at work lately and also because I was somewhat taken aback by the tone of some of the early responses, suggesting I was a 13 year old poster for instance. In any event, I do own a Dino (no. 05738), a '73 chairs and flares that I was very fortunate to acquire nine years ago. Last year my wife bumped into it while following me out of my mechanic's shop (she thought I'd pulled out from the stop sign at the end of the street when I hadn't.) Hence my post last Dec. looking for bumpers. It actually turned out to be a blessing in disquise because we found a lot of rust, especially under the fenders. So I had the car stripped and repainted Rosso Bordeaux which I found thanks to omgjon's post collecting all the correct Dino colors. A pic is posted below. I was at the Fairfield County Concours last Sunday. In any event, my friend who is looking for a Dino has, in fact, pursued the ususal avenues--Ferrari Market Letter, Hemmings,the classifieds in the Ferrari Club newsletter, etc. In fact, in August he saw a real candidate at Pebble Beach but when he had it inspected it needed a minimum of $45,000 work just on a cursory review while the owner was asking an exceedingly high price. He knows the market and he knows what cars in good condition are commanding. And, yes, he knows about Auto Sport Design. So . . . I thought I'd do him a favor and post to see if someone knew of a Dino that one might not ordinarily come across in the usual places. Perhaps I could have been more specific about my friend's existing knowledge of the market so that people would know he was serious. Image Unavailable, Please Login
OMG - a real buyer who belly'd up to the bar and bought a car before posting a vacuous "WTB a Dino" entry on FCHAT!!! (unlike an 8 year-old stealing time on his 13 year-old brother's computer). Congratulations and welcome to FerrariChat!!! Please post photos (under a new thread starter of course) of your Dino, and maybe a little background on how you found your Dino, how many you looked at first, and what you plan to do with it! Mark
Thanks Mark. I had been looking for a few years for a GT. This one happened to be in Toronto so it was convenient to inspect it. It is one of 6 Dino's that originally sold in Canada as Euro Gt's with a factory MPH speedometer. It is the sister car of the one Rosemeyer is restoring. My car is currently undergoing a mechanical and sympathetic restoration. It is under the excellent care of Rocco at Rocks Auto restoration. I believe "ghenne" started a thread under barbie dino and posted a picture of it with the primer. It was originally Rosso chiaro with pelle nera interior. It will remain red/black. Sam
