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Dino 1966-1980 - In Memoriam

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Created in 2011

Reading time 3min

Written by:

Roger Gloor

Photos:

Wolfgang Wilhelm / Archiv Daniel Reinhard

Bonhams

Balz Schreier

Stephan Traber

Coys

Artcurial

Archiv

Wolfgang Wilhelm / Archiv Daniel Reinhard

Bonhams

Balz Schreier

Stephan Traber

Coys

Artcurial

Archiv

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Dino 246 GTS am Genfer Automobilsalon 1972 - die Targa-Ausführung des Dino 246 feiert Weltpremiere auf dem Pininfarina-Stand

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Dino 246 GTS (1972) - die Targa-Ausführung des Dino - erhältlich ab 1972

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Dino 246 GTS am Genfer Automobilsalon 1972 - der offene Dino feiert auf dem Pininfarina-Stand Weltpremiere

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Dino 246 GT (1972) - am GP Mutschellen 2014

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Dino 246 GT (1972) - als Lot 120 verkauft an der Coys-Versteigerung in Monaco am 9. Mai 2014

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Dino 206 GT (1968) - der Dino auf dem Stand von Pinin Farina

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Dino 206 GT (1969) - an der Bonhams Quail Lodge Auktion vom 14./15. August 2014 als Lot 001

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Dino 308 GT4 (1973) - langer Radstand, relativ kurze Überhänge

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Dino 308 GT4 (1973) - die Produktionsziele wurden nicht erreicht

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Dino 308 GT4 (1974) - beliebte Flughafenszene

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Dino 308 GT4 (1974) - die TRX-Reifen kamen erst bei späteren Baujahren zur Anwendung

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Dino 308 GT4 (1974) - der Kofferraum umfasst rund 200 Liter

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Dino 308 GT4 (1974) - macht vor allem auf verwinkelten Landstrassen viel Freude

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Summary

There have been around 10,000 car brands and designers - most of them have disappeared. Dino is one such vanished brand. Created by Enzo Ferrari as a second brand, Dino produced its first model in 1966, the Dino 206 GT, which was a masterpiece. Further models were produced until 1980.

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Because the term Ferrari stands above everything else for them, some Dino owners call their four-wheeled favorite by this great name, and have even mounted it on the Dino front. Wrongly so, because the Dino brand is incomparably more exclusive: the total number of cars built in 15 years is less than a Ferrari's annual output today! Admittedly, competitors at the time, Maserati and Lamborghini, built their smaller models under the same brand name, and there were indeed racing cars called Ferrari Dino. But Dino was officially launched as a second brand by Commendatore Enzo Ferrari in 1966. He used it to commemorate his son Alfredino, who had died ten years earlier at the age of 24 and had already distinguished himself as a highly talented engineer.

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