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Do i understand you guys correctly here..........the Dino was made by someone else and is not a Ferrari, and was never badged as a Ferrari???
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the Dino was made by Ferrari, but on orders of the boss it was supposed to be a separate brand, (to honour his son who died in 1956 and was behind the design of the original V6) so the name ferrari appears nowhere. (The wheelnuts had yellow "dino" badges). The picture I posted shows the chassis number and refers to the model "dino 246GT, but there is a factory plate in the back with a prancing horse on it. This might not be original as it is very easy to replicate.
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only the later 308 GT4 dinos had ferrari badge
12 cylinders or walk!
hi first time poster here, there was a more cynical reason why enzo didn't badge 206 and 246 dinos as ferraris, Dino was working on the narrow angle v6 engine for f2 racing at the time enzo's cars where all huge v12 monsters and he didn't want to dilute his brand with a weedy 2.0 liter so he tested the market with the dino brand, personally I think it's a travisty to rebadge a dino as a ferrari
I am not convinced about that V12 preference story. When Dino died he was working on the V6 for the F2 class, and hence Enzo declared that every V6 should bear the name Dino in his honour.
Prior to the 246, Ferrari had launched already a new V6-Dino programme for its sports prototypes (the 196 and 246) which culminated in the beautiful 206S. All these cars had the Dino suffix, and I don't think that was because of Ferrari not wanting not V12 Ferraris being called Ferraris. (They had been highly successful with the 4 cylinder 500-625-750 engines too, and there was also the brutish 118-121LM inline six).
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I don't doubt that enzo wanted to pay homage to his son but you have to admit that the dino brand was a was a safe way to test the market for a smaller engine ferrari road car, Enzo had toyed around with smaller engines in racing before with 4 and 6 cylinders but not in his road cars, in fact he had developed a four cylinder engine in the late fifties for a road car but he didn't put it into a ferrari he leased the rights to asa, on a final note the 308 gt4 was originally badged as a dino until sales took took off in the US then they were swiftly re badged as ferraris witch spawned a whole linage of v8 powered ferraris.
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