Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

Proper Ferrari's are yellow.

Anyone who owns a red one never keeps it.

Been in the family since 1975. We must be the exception to the rule.

Very nice! The thinking man's Ferrari stable.
My dad has frequently thought about getting a 456 but he's never been quite brave enough to get it done. Tell us the story about the Dino!

Here's a quick version while I'm on the train.
My father bought it as a whole car in 1975. When he went to pick it up it was in bits. He always says it was literally in boxes. While he was waiting for the seller to fix it all up, the police investigated the dealer for various things so my dad nipped in pretty rapidly to take the dino in its boxes, rather than getting nothing at all.

My uncle was a mechanic who had worked in f1, including brabham and Jordan. He basically put it all back together which was a painstaking process. Apparently Ferrari had released the list of each individual part, but not how they went together. So I guess my uncle used as much guesswork as skill. When I talk about parts, I mean things as small as nuts and bolts which had no apparent location. It had been non traditional in terms of paint, so that got sorted.

It had been largely unused until recently when it had a full overhaul and is relatively useable. It's last outing was when I got a lift to school in it when I was 6 and it all went to shit.

In the garage behind the cars in shot is a 1957 lotus elite and a modern and utterly boring yellow elan.