What a color!
12/27/2023
"Blu Dino" is the name of the color in which this Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona from 1972 is painted. The RM/Sotheby's auctioneer will auction the coupé with chassis number 15229 on January 25, 2024 in Arizona. It is expected to fetch USD 650,000 to 750,000, a value rather at the upper end of the current market, possibly justified by an extensive two-year restoration at GTO Engineering, which now dates back about four years.
But back to the color: according to RM, only 116 examples of the Daytona Coupé were delivered in this livery. "Only" is relative, of course, because we are talking about 8.4% of the entire production, which comprised 1383 Coupés up to December 1973.
So there is a high probability that you must have come across one of these blue Coupés at some point. And yet we can't remember coming across a Daytona in "Blue Dino" in the last 10 or 12 years. However, we have seen many, many red Daytonas, which is perhaps also due to the fact that some 365 GTB/4s were repainted in Rosso Corsa a long time ago.
For my part, I would much rather own a blue Daytona like the one pictured. But tastes differ, and unfortunately so do bank balances ...
