The Daytona is not loved.

Yes, a very nice piece on your car in the current Octane Magazine with some great pictures. Interesting Power Steering Set Up. I love the interior of the Daytona. Beautiful clocks, seats, steering wheel and lots of space. It's just a great place to be. And that's even before you start it up and hear the sound of the truly fabulous engine. Although I would prefer and absolutely love the Miura SV for different reasons, and it would have to be the SV as I would prefer the Daytona to the Miura P400 and P400S, I have to say the Daytona was a better car and the best all round sports car in its day as it was so fast, refined, sophisticated and practical too.

 

I like the Grifo very much. They are absolutely beautiful. I've sold a few of them, admittedly with the 5.7 engine. Though with its Chevrolet OHV engine it's not a thoroughbred in the same league and an Iso is not a Ferrari. Sorry. The market prices change constantly.

 

Good post. There's a Playboy in all of us and the Daytona would have been THE car to bring that out in its day. However, the car should not be dismissed as merely a "Playboy's thing" as that would be to deny its towering ability and automotive supremity. Today, the Daytona makes me think of a Nobleman.

 

I can picture a woman behind the wheel of a 275, but not with a Daytona. It's a man's man's car

 

This woman you can picture must be very beautiful!!! Catherine Deneuve, Claudia Cardinale, Sophia Loren?

 

Exactly and NOT Kim Kardashian or any of her contemporary scrubbers

 

Ha ha, I'm ROFL. Really, I am!!!

 

So you compare the top of the TR market to the lower end of the BB market? Bottom of the market TR's are in the 40's. Bottom of the BB market is in the 80's. Can you even find a running, driving BB for under 90k? A quick search shows two running/driving TR's for 40's.

 

I find this thread so amusing.

Obviously, none of you owned a Dino in the 80's. In the 80's, it was the Dino that was not loved and the Daytona was loved on the auction market.

Now, it's the opposite.

The Dino is today's flavor. It will pass, as will this temporary love affair with the color white on cars.

Tastes change over time. What is fashionable today will not be tomorrow.

 

The Daytona was actually very highly revered from around 1977 when prices rose sharply and continued to rise until the recession of 1989? when prices of all cars came down.

 

Exactly.

 

There was no Daytona bashing then and for many years. It was a highly lauded car of which many stories were written. Classic car magazines raved over it.

 

The Daytona is my next one. Current prices may indicate no love but that's okay. I'm looking for one that needs some engine tweaking so the the big cams can be added.

 

Totally agree. The "drives like a truck" myth is bogus. It's a heavy car without assisted steering but that's because it's a product of it's time.

 

IIRC, there is a local Colorado car that fits that bill. Not sure if it's still around though.

 

I prefer Daytona steering feel to that of the 330GTC. FWIW.

 

Well, thats what people were saying 15 - 20 years ago, but collectors now better understand these cars and know that they are right on top with the other famous marques.

Here is a car that's chassis was designed by the man (Giotto Bizzarrini) who built the Ferrari GTO, body by Giugiaro and powered by one of the most race winning engines ever the 327 and 427. When Renzo Rivolta had the idea to build the GT he asked Bizzarrini to go out and find what Bizzarrini considered the best engine at that time, he came back with the 327. This is the same man who months earlier designed the Lamborghini V12! Giotto never changed his mind about this. Most of our club members are Ferrari owners or have been Ferrari owners and they know that the Grifo is a true thoroughbred.

The market prices have only gone one direction with Grifo's - up.

 

Raced at LeMans many times won it's class listed as Iso Grifo A3C
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Compared to mid engined cars the steering of a Daytona feels heavy at low speed, but there isn't that much difference with other front engined V12 Ferrari (without assisted steering), I think. A modern rack and pinion steering (365BB / 206GT onward) is for sure much more precise, than the old worm gear layout. If someone drives an old front engined Ferrari (Daytona, 275, 250) the first time, the statement "drives like a truck" may be not that bogus.

A friend of my father wanted to sell his Ferrari 250 SWB and persuaded my father to drive it because he thought the car is great! My uncle did the engine rebuild, the car was beautifully new painted in red and he knew my father was interested in his SWB. So my father got into his new 308 GTB for the 20km to meet Heinz and had directly afterwards a drive in his 250 SWB. I guess you know what my father sad, after driving?
It "..... .... . ....." and right, he didn't buy it ;-)

 

^ exactly! A friend of mine had a 330gtc and 246 gts. He sold the 330gtc, when asked why the 330 and not the dino, he said the 330 drove like a truck.

 

Look at this fabulous beast!!!

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Yes, the Grifo really is a very special car.

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