So we agree then. The issue - if there is one - is in the ad description. Not the car itself. Unlikely that anyone who is going to stump up the best part of a million bucks would be confused. Maybe they just like the car as it is, and don’t give a **** about whether it’s the same as when it came out of the factory. Whom would have thought?
The car has been through a further three shops since the work by Nick Cartwright according to the description. Whom knows what happened subsequently.
A Dino out of the UK would be seriously challenged body wise if it was driven in the winters, even with 3,700 miles, let alone 10 times that. There is no corrosion protection on these cars and one could almost argue they needed restoring straight off the production line, at least in the body. It could be 137,000 miles, not much is mentioned about its earlier history.
No. We don't. I like cars that are restored properly. That disctates this Dino should have a black vinyl interior and black carpets. Most people don't care, and that's totally fine, it's just not for me. And it's not original either. Much as adding shields to a 355 isn't my thing, but it's not for me to dictate to you what you should do with your car, and vice versa, unless you ask. The problem is that these "restored" cars become homogenised into this car display and concorso show circus where they are displayed as "original" and that really grinds with me. You may be surprised the number of people whom dump 7 figures into a vehicle they really have little idea about. I hope this lovely Dino ends up with a sympathetic owner that drives the ass off it. For it to be stowed away for the rest of its life would be a terrible shame. Incorrect seats or not.
Apart from the low resolution images in the listing which really should include some of the underside, I think the seller could have given a brief bio of its first owner: https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/may-2009/71/lunch-john-coombs/
Spot on. Quite a number of 246's have been restored in NSW over the last decade, all vinyl trim cars originally, all with daytona-style seats now, some with leather consoles, sill covers, door cards and rear bulkhead. All grievously incorrect, but when the likes of CTS are selling them, they're usually described as concours winners. It's got to the stage where someone could bring a nice correct car (they still exist) and fully expect to lose to one of the resto-mods. As for this white car, the fact that the bell housing and heads have been hosed over with a can of silver frost paint speaks volumes for the expertise of Concours Sportscar Restorations. (freeze the video at 2:11 for the horror show). Every hoseclip wrong, gloss paint where it should be satin, zip ties, polished cam covers, yellow chromate head nuts, the list goes on.
Fair enough. I get that if people are buying these “incorrect” cars and then entering them in shows and winning that’s pretty annoying. Surely it’s up to the judges to know what they’re doing? If these cars are being bought, driven and enjoyed and the owner couldn’t care less about car shows then good luck to them.
They're probably young folk who have no memory or respect for the greatest era of racing in the 50's and 60's.
Don’t know exactly what you mean, there. You like cars that are young boys? At least you’ve recently bought a manual six cylinder car with the engine behind the driver, like a proper enthusiast.
Obviously you're a young boy then: In non-ecclesiastical use, it derives its English meaning directly from its root, and is currently used to mean the following:[9] including a wide variety of things, or all-embracing; universal or of general interest; having broad interests, or wide sympathies; inclusive, inviting.