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Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: The $15,000 Fiat Dino?
Detroit, 9:53 PM
Sat Nov 28
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01/22/09
It would then see daily driver duty in the greater Seattle area, ripping velvet as I rip through the geaars. Perhaps I'd even wash it from time to time...
01/22/09
Assuming the short in the window doesn't burn it to the wheels as soon as you get home.
No, seriously. What a beauty. $15k and money left over for crack to celebrate.
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Remove the cavallino rampante shields immediately (including the one one the engine), are those mirrors aftermarket?, detail the engine bay, this is workable
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Beautiful car, beautifuller engine. And the costs of keeping it going can't be anywhere in the same range as the maintenance on a mid-sixties Ferrari.
01/22/09
A Dino is a great car on its own. The fact that Ferrari makes the V6 is just icing on the cake.
01/22/09
I must click on to another post, mustn't call seller . . . Children need to eat, have to pay mortgage . . . Arrrrrg!!
01/22/09
I know, I am going to give the guy a call at lunch today and see if there is any chance I can drive out to see it after work. Sadly, the only camera I have uses film canisters, not memory cards, and I don't even know where it is.
Otherwise, I would volunteer to gather a few bonus pictures.
01/22/09
Having just bought the Jensen Healey I am lacking in resources - both financial and space/time to undertake such a purchase, but boy would I love to have a little Dino coupe, and 15 grand isn't a bad price for one in nice shape.
01/22/09
It does have a camera, and I have been digging around the office frantically trying to find the USB cable that I would need to hoop it up to the computer...it must be here somewhere, dammit...
I would love that car, too. A couple others have asserted that there would be hidden costs in there somewhere, and I agree to an extent, but even so, that is a very nice price.
How is the Healy doing?
01/22/09
The Healey is cranking, but not firing. Need to pull the distributor (which lives under the intake plenum (thanks Lotus) and make sure the points aren't fried, and the plug wires are on the correct terminals.
Then I start disassembly of the interior in order to fix the 6x12 hole in the floor. Gonna' buy me a MIG welder!
Old cars are fun.
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6x12 hole in the floor!? Ah, the joys of restoration. You are braver than me, however, for being willing to get into it with a British car, and no less a Jensen. Props for that.
Every car has hidden costs involved; parts for these cars are generally more expensive, and come on, if you owned a car that cool, would you not eventually find yourself obsessed with fixing every little thing that you notice isn't perfect?
I know that I would, and I am willing to bet that after you have invested a fair amount of time into that Healy, you would too.
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But look at it......just...f#@&ing....look...at...it. It is gorgeous...like a perfectly tailored Armani suit with wheels. The man or woman who drives it will increase thier personal "suave-ness" by a factor of 10. If Larry the Cable Guy drove this Dino, he's turn into Cary Grant.....instantly.
Nice price? No, AWESOME price.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I need a little...ahem... some alone time....and then a cigarette.
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I'd even pay more... No, really.
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