Differences between US and non-US Dinos.

The hose in the images is not braided steel but rather cloth braided rubber fuel hose. Totally correct for a Dino.

 

Agreed about the cloth braided hoses being correct, not agreed about the aging part...;-) With the lighting and angle of the photo, it looked like steel braided.

Also agreed about no judges would (likely) deduct for correct placement of stickers...maybe not even if the wrong stickers were present (e.g., english High Voltage sticker on a Euro car).

 

Thanks, but I don't think the slight difference in combination of lighting and instruments make it rare!
The L-series #01100 of Matthias is also interesting since it was delivered to Canada where it's instruments are also English/MPH.
Andrew

 

Prior to 1972 there were no US Spec 246's so any cars imported to the US were grey market cars from Europe. In Canada though there were some cars officially imported prior to 1972 and these cars were special in that they were 100% Euro cars with the exception that gauge clusters from a British car were fitted. As such the speedometer is in MPH and all of the instruments are in English rather than Italian. My brothers M Series is one of 6 such cars (one of the others belongs to a member here too) and so is Matthias' L series. A little oddity in the world of Dino's

 

#01100 had normal european lighting, the difference should be just the instruments...
regards Matthias

 

Only the US version had the "Fasten Seat Belts" warning light next to the defrost lever?

 

Furthermore, a number of these Canadian import cars made it into the US when it took nothing more than a drive south followed by a one way plane ticket home to import it. This information is right from the 90 year old original salesman of our car who took more than one one-way flight in his day. As he put it: 'It was different times back then'

 

To clarify, at least some of these early USA-delivered cars were ordered, built for, and imported to the USA through Chinetti but noted as "intended for competition purposes only", for the reasons that Rob mentions. The salesman and a long drive from Canada was not involved, at least not in my case. The headlights are not special to the US.
The lighting configuration is dependent on the country of delivery and outside the big 4 (Italy, UK, Germany, France), it's best to check the vehicle but the default is probably Italy, for LHD countries anyway. It's likely North America had the same lighting configuration based on what Matthias and Rob said but there are so few of these cars delivered to countries outside the big 4, that I keep an open mind.
Sorry to pollute your excellent thread Lars with a side topic, we should have started a separate one.
Andrew

 

I've been making my own list and here's one I'm inquiring about what I've seen on my Dinos:

Euro - The steering column left stalk can turn on the marker/parking lights and the headlights separately.

USA - Headlights can only be turned on after marker lights are on

Can anyone else confirm?