How rare is the Ferrari Dino 246 GT ?

There are a couple of threads on here about how many could be left on the road, I just can't seem to find them.

Here are the original production numbers, worldwide.

1968-74 Production cars:

1968-69 206GT 150 cars

1969-74 246GT 2487 cars

1972-74 246GTS 1274 cars

 

FYI, Rosso is Italian for red. Rosso must be followed by another word such as Chiaro, Corsa, etc.

 

This last weekend the local FCA club had a long weekend out to the coast.
http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=113721
Upon arrival of the 26 Fcars at our hotel, several of the kids and parents came into the lot viewing, three headed straight for my Dino. I told them everything about it, let them see the engine and told them the history of Enzo's only son, Dino. Each child got to sit in the car and with big smiles I insisted they hit the horn, which they thoroughly enjoyed.

The perspective of the car from the driver's seat with the double curved fenders in your field of view is something that most observers's don't get a chance to see, yet is one of the most striking aspects of the car.

The performance of the car is also is par with other Fcars and I had one 512TR owner tell me that he had a very hard time catching up to me (and no possibility of passing) during a spirited 20 mile stretch that our Fclub is very familiar with; Moclips highway. I peaked at 185Kph, only because I was limiting myself to a hard ceiling of 5500RPM max as a recent dyno showed I run lean above that.

 

Umm, Piero might beg to differ

 

Piero was never acknowledged as a Ferrari family member until after Laura Ferrari (Enzo's wife) was deceased because Piero was never a child of Laura and Enzo's. You probably know he was born out of wedlock.

 

Yeah I know. I've seen the DVD(which was crap by the way). He was Enzo's love child

 

Wedlock or no, Piero is Enzo's son, period, the end! Dino was not his only son, but his first son and his "legitimate" son.

BTW, I didn't think the movie was crap. Maybe a bit long and melodramatic but very revealing.

Birdman

 

Piero was never Laura's son, not a son of Enzo Ferrari's family, nor was he raised in the Ferrari household. Enzo did not spend time with him and did not pass the Father-Son apprenticeship knowledge to him.

 

Simply semantics. Half his DNA is Enzo's. No-one really knows what relationship he had with Enzo growing up. If he wasn't considered a son, how did he end up with a significant share in Ferrari?

 

Given Italian family values, at that time especially; Mrs. Ferrari would not have accepted publicly the existance of a mistress. She obviously was aware of it, as she was no doubt aware of Piero's existance. Ferrari would not dump his wife, for a mistress, even if he wanted to. Such behaviour, would not have been acceptable to himself or his peers, especially after Dino's death. It would have been expected, from the male perspective, for Ferrari to have casual affairs; the existance of a son born of a mistress, would have been considered a consequence of his actions, however, if Ferrari had publicly embraced his son, the term "bastard son" would have been used at every turn, with very negative social and business consequences for all. For that reason, Ferrari was not able to publicly support is son Piero, nor could he bring him into the Ferrari business. Imagine Piero walking around the factory with a sign on his back "Figlio Bastardo" and believe me, it's social connotation in Italian is very very bad. It appears Ferrari protected Piero from all that, made sure that education and standard of living were maintained at a high level and made provisions for his future. Piero was probably, better off in the sidelines leading his own life than at the forefront, labelled the bastard son. That's My take on it.

 

Pure sympathy.

 

So I suppose you could say he was a lucky bastard

 

No Symaphathy
10 % of Ferrari stock
President Of ferrari, even if only for a short while
Gets any Ferrari he wants
Yes I think that qualifies him as a lucky bastard!

 

This thread has gone off topic to pointlessness. Time to either end it or get back on topic, IMO.

 

getting back on topic.......

interestingly enough, i have only seen TWO coupe's before. a silver one in las about two years ago and my 72 coupe. i don't think that this make sthem rare, but seeing as i have seen many more gts's, it is interesting to note that the coupe is almost twice as common as the spyder. why my situation i sthis way is hard to say, except for me being in houston, which doesn't have much of a classic car market.

when you talk of rarity, you have to remember that the dino was the MOST produced "ferrari" (spare me the arguements about it being a "real" ferrari) of all time. clearly, it is the most common ferrari up unto that point.

having said that, there still aren't that many around. i can't begin to guess how many have been lost, but i have to think there are a good number fewer around today than were produced.

 

My understanding is that in Europe and Japan there is a preference for closed cars, or at least less enthusiasm for open cars than we have here.
So most GTS's were sold here, and many GT's went back to Europe and to Japan when the dollar was soft.

Jim Oddie

 

For the past three years I've gone to the same concours. Each year there are six or seven Dinos but never more than two GT cars, one being mine.

DM

 

I'd buy one if I could find one, any condition, keep that in mind, I'd even pay a finders fee, not that that matters to most.