My 5 Favorite Facts About the Ferrari 308GT4 | The Bad Blonde Car History
/Hello friends, check out my 5 favorite facts about the Ferrari 308GT4 on The Bad Blonde Car History channel! #Ferrari #Dino #308GT4 #1 – Where did the name Dino come from? Alfredo ‘Dino’ Ferrari Enzo Ferrari’s only legitimate son with his married wife.. Enzo did have another son born from an affair. We have Dino to thank for Ferrari cars… You see Enzo man reason for stop his racing driver career. Enzo had vowed to stop racing (he was racing for Alfa at the time) if he had a son. #2 – Why did Enzo decide to create the Dino marque? This is a good follow up to the naming.. You see Alfredo ‘dino’ Ferrari had persuaded his father that Ferrari needed to begin research on smaller engine cars. He talked his father, the king of v12s, into developing a 1.5 litre DOHC v6 engine for f2 racing, creating the first Ferrari engine with less than 12 cylinders. Sadly, it would be just as Dino was making his mark at Ferrari that he would be diagnosed with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. Even through his final days Dino still worked with fellow engineer and famed racer Vittorio Jano on Ferrari’s first V6 engine. Now Enzo was worried about putting the Ferrari name on anything that had less than 12 cylinders, but he wanted to get into the smaller engine and lower cost sports car game So he paid honor to his son Dino by creating this separate marque 10 years after his passing. The first Dino to roll out was powered by the same V6 engine that Dino worked on before his passing #3 – This was the first for Ferrari to dabble outside of Pininfarina Yes, this was the first time that Ferrari broke away from their long and successful relationship with Pininfarina and contracted Bertone to design the 308GT4. They had been partnering since 1951. The 308 was designed by automobile designer Marcello Gandini at Bertone. The guy that also did the Lancia Stratos. And you know clearly it was quite a design departure from the 206/246 Let’s take a quick spin around the car #4 – That both Dino and Ferrari badges were sometimes put on the same cars Car owners/purchasers were getting worried about owning a Ferrari that didn’t have the Ferrari name on it. The Dino marque came from Ferrari in 1967 and stopped three years before 1976 this 308gt4 was manufactured but yet you will still see a Dino badge on the back of there #5- Their popularity is sky rocketing right now Prices and notoriety are going up, Becoming increasingly sought after "record sale" of the Euro 308 GT4 on BAT for $141,000 What is your favorite Dino? Are there any paths that you think Ferrari would have taken differently if Dino had not passed away early? What is your favorite cantankerous Enzo story? If you are picking any Ferrari keys out of a box, which are you picking?
