Itching for a Track Day!

These pics snagged on Ferrari Chat are really giving me naughty ideas...

Who says all Ferraris should be red?

A gaggle of newly-minted 308 GT4's at the factory bound for the USA.  What a fascinating array of colors! I even see a lime green one halfway back!

For your consideration: Bertone Rainbow Prototype

The same year my Dino's body was built in the Bertone factory, Marcello Gandini and his team were creating this wedge-like design study also based on the Ferrari 308 mechanicals.  Clearly, these themes never made it into any production Ferrari. But you can see many elements here that would find their way into several small sports cars of the 80s, particularly from Japan.  At this time, Japanese automakers had yet to emerge, butterfly-like from their mimetic, unimaginative cocoons.  But collaborations between Italian styling houses and Japanese automakers began to bear fruit. Radical Italian ideas of the mid 70s became the new Japanese look of the 80s, and the wedge went from avante garde to mainstream.

Midnight Dino

It's midnight, which puts me in the mood for a late night drive. Would love to hop into this evocative night shot!

Many more photos of this car HERE

Dino on my mind

I've been a little obsessed with the Ferrari Dino 308 GT4 the past few days. They're especially lovely in non-red.  I cannot understand why these gorgeous cars aren't more sought after.  It's the only production Ferrari designed by Bertone (Marcello Gandini to be exact), and the first production V8 in a long line of V8s. Putting aside the tiresome snobbery surrounding the whole Dino badge, these are objectively very special little cars, and possibly some of the greatest 2+2 GT cars of the 1970s.