Originally published at: This 1972 Blu Dino 246 GT may be the most beautiful Ferrari ever | Boing Boing
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Because of the engine, Enzo didn’t consider the Dino a proper Ferrari and didn’t allow it to wear the name or logo. When did they put it on the steering wheel and wheel hubs?
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(skeptical of claim)
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The Dino’s are indeed lovely cars. That said, @zzzz picked one of the models I’d elevate over it.
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Clearly this photo is of a Matchbox or Hot Wheels car using some kind of close-up photography technique to make it appear life-sized.
No car as cool as this could really exist.
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WOW! The Dino is the top of my most gorgeous cars ever list.
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Blue Pozzi is the best Ferrari blue. Fight me!
Someone who thinks the Dino isn’t a real Ferrari at this late remove? Seems weird to me. The answer is probably that in the intervening decades someone (could have been the original dealer) but Ferrari emblems on it. Because Ferrari made the car.
The same motor was used in the Statos.
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just on the steering wheel, which is presumably a recent addition. The wheel hubs seem to have the Dino script
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Yes. A Ferrari logo on the steering wheel is an aberration, although Dino parts specialists do offer Ferrari steering wheel logos to Dino-owners who want to remind themselves (and passengers) that they’re in a Ferrari.
(BTW: I’m pretty sure those are Dino logos on the hubs. No prancing horseys there.
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Yet another gorgeous Pininfarina body!
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It’s quite the cost-reduced Ferrari, but even given that status, it’s more lovely than anything else out there (save a 1960s Jag E).
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He wanted to honor his late son with naming the 6 cylinders after him, that is hardly “he didn’t want to see his name anywhere near it”.
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The 250 GTO has an ugly back, the Lusso looks like it was already bent in the middle. The Dino design beats them both. What both cars have is a lot more status, but don’t let that blind you to the beauty of the 206/246. Also they spawned the whole 8 cylinders series that came to be what Ferraris are actually known for - and what is actually raced by “gentlemen” drivers for a long time now.
Let’s just agree to disagree on this one. Besides, IMHO it’s not a Ferrari unless it’s got a V-12. 
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I wonder what both these cars look like to modern eyes. I was about seven when the E-Type came out, and that, the Miura, Dino and other exotics made a good impression. Now, to me the E-Type looks a little angular, the Miura a little silly, but the Dino seems as it always did. I remember old timers when I was a kid lusting after the mid sixties super cars telling me, “ah, but you should see a Bentley” or SS100, etc. All I could think in response was “with a front axel from my Dad’s truck…” . (I actually did see an SS 100 in person about 1969, parked at a remote central Ontario gas station. It was a real one, too; I gave it a thorough inspection. It did look pretty sweet, but still old 
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Most of today’s supercars look to me like someone asked a nine-year old to “draw a totally kewl anime warrior helmet, and put four wheels under it”.
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