It would appear that the motivated workforce had to keep warm, by working extra hard! The gent in the overcoat and hat, is not
All Fiat Dino 2400 were assembled in Maranello based on pre-assembled Pininfarina and Bertone bodies. This kind of financial support was granted by Agnelli to Ferrari to ensure utilization of the new Maranello assembly hall.
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I've seen this photo before. Only about 400 Fiat Dino 2.4L spiders were built in Maranello. The rest, about 1200 2.0L or so, where built in Turin. About 6000 Dino coupes were built, making Coupe to Spider about a 3 times larger number. Mine yesterday as we are nearly finished with the mechanical restoration and will move next to cosmetic. Image Unavailable, Please Login
What a great thread! It surprised me to see so many Fiat Dinos in the Ferrari factory in Maranello, but after I did a little more research, I realized that this makes sense. By 1966, Ferrari needed Fiat so it could try to have a presence in Formula 2 in 1967. Of course, Ferrari also appreciated [read NEEDED] Fiat's financial help in general. Anthony Curtis wrote in an article that appeared in Thoroughbred & Classic Cars in December 1976, that in order to allow Ferrari to compete in the 1967 Formula 2 season, it needed to produce at least 500 examples of an engine (1600 cc limit). "Accordingly, Ferrari agreed to supply the engine in 2-litre form to Fiat for their own front-engined Dino to ensure the minimum production required." (A 1600 cc bored out to 2000 cc of the same general spec met the requirements). "To reduce production problems, the Fiat engineers tidied up the design, but it was built in the Ferrari works and still developed 160 (net) bhp as supplied to the bigger [Fiat] company." Edward Eves wrote in an earlier article that appeared in Autocar on March 8, 1973, that the engine was a "true Ferrari Engine in that it was laid down in the Ferrari drawing office and prototypes were built in Maranello, the castings being produced and machined in the works. Fiat, however, laid down the production tooling and, the machine tools being moved over to Maranello and housed in a new extension of the factory long before the Fiat Dino was discontinued. Incidentally, at the time Fiat Dino was in production at Maranello, Ferrari was in production with earlier versions of the Ferrari Dino coupe." P.S. TheMayor's got a beautiful Fiat Spyder, don't you think?
Having been a Ferrari 246 Dino Gt owner I wanted the other half. I just drove it the other day for the first time. When its finished I'll write my thoughts about the similarities and differences. But the Fiat Dino is "a Dino" without question. Perhaps distant cousins but certainly related.
There are WAY to many skeletons in my closet to ever run for office! I got a few stored away right now....
The Fiat Dino production really helped Ferrari get through a rough spot as the factory ginned up for Dinos and Daytonas that met US emissions standards. Without that production, things would have been really tough. Things were still tight until the 308s came out and production picked up. My Fiat Dino 2400 GT drove like a small Daytona and was really enjoyable for the year or so I owned her. Easy to work on too, except the screw down caliper pistons were a pain. Fitted an MSD ignition system to her that got me back the inop tachometer and really smoothed out the engine. Sold her to buy a 308 GTS. Love the photo of the Giallo Fly Daytona with the silver nose panel only fitted to relatively early A spec cars.
Wonderful YouTube Channel. It is worthy to note that this channel is run by Ian Tyrrell who runs a classic car service facility. No relation to Ken Tyrrell who ran an F1 team in the 60's-90's.
