The ultimate italian coachbuilder site
The ultimate italian coachbuilder site
Alfredino “Dino” Ferrari was Enzo Ferrari’s son and by all accounts the only person or thing the Ferrari founder ever loved more than cars and racing. In the ’50s Dino suggested that his father’s company should build a small V6 for use in Formula 2 competition. But Dino died of nephritis in 1956 before the engine he had suggested and fostered would run. And long before it would earn glory for winning the 1961 Grand Prix world championship with American driver Phil Hill piloting the Ferrari Dino 156 “shark nose.”
So when Ferrari decided to put a V6-powered car for the street into production, it was no surprise that he would call it the Dino. In fact it was called Dino to the exclusion of the name Ferrari, as it was expected that Dino would become a second line of vehicles that would let the Italian manufacturer compete against such lowly marques as Jaguar, Mercedes and Porsche. The Dino road car first appeared at the 1966 Turin Auto Show: a midengine two-seater powered by a 2.0-liter version of the Dino V6 engine (the “206” part of the name indicates a 2.0-liter 6-cylinder engine). With an alloy body designed by Ferrari’s usual collaborator Pininfarina, the 1967 Dino 206 GT was, if nothing else, gorgeous.
“The Aesthetic of Motoring: 90 Years of Pininfarina” will showcase the diversity and versatility of the coachbuilder’s designs through four milestone examples – the 1931 Cadillac Model452A Boattail Roadster, 1947 Cisitalia 202 Coupe, 1966 Dino Berlinetta 206 GT Prototype and 2019 Automobili Pininfarina “Battista” Design Model
