I’ve been driving this one at least once a week in Hill Country Texas. Nice windy roads with no traffic. I hadn’t planned on restoring this until a few years down the road. My last drive was a month ago and as I drove into the garage and was admiring the color and shape I decided it deserved more! I wheeled my toolbox over and went at it. So now its been taken apart, media blasted and is at my metal shop as usual to make like new.
This Dino was flown over from Belgium directly to Houston, then to me. It was a very nice car but needed a little refurbishment. The car was originally Argento Autiel with black interior. Now Rosso Chiaro with tan and daytona seats and Campagnolo wheels. It lived it’s whole life in Belgium and now Texas!
The best part of these projects is reassembly! Months are spent with taking it apart, restoring all the parts to new, metal work on the body, paint, upholstery, engine rebuild and a hostb of other projects.
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back from the paint shop and getting ready to start reassembly. It’s my favorite part of the process, as it starts to come to life and clean hands at the end of the day. The Dino was originally Rosso Chiaro but I made a change, also deleted USA lights, front, rear and side, as well as smog equipment. Now for the haters!!! How could I do such a thing. My grandaughter Gracie is cleaning a spot for it in the shop.
I finished this complete restoration of 1972 Ferrari Dino Gt. Original specifications of Blu Scuro/ Beige.
A few jobs today that are unique to the 206. The air canister and air filter are lettered with individual letters, not 1 decal. I had these sheets printed for me and each letter is rubbed off individually. The dash is unique to the the 206 and rather crude. The actual glove boxes are metal cans lined with felt. If you notice they made the cans too big and they hit on the frame. Ferrari mechanics use the favorite Dino tool in their box, the hammer! The boxes were beaten down to fit. I’ve restored three 206’s and they were all this way. On the L model they corrected this and made the boxes a little less deep. We did make one new box and the original fit so poorly. The early 206 dashes were all vinyl with later ones being a combination of mousehair and Dino vinyl. The L used all mousehair. The other unique feature on the dash was a dual rheostat that controlled both the wiper speed and the dash lights. This one was rebuilt by Jim Simpson at Oddparts to make it a bit more reliable and it was broken.
Rebuilding the gearbox and other parts. The brakes are Girling like the 206. They have a separate parking brake unlike the 246 ATE brake. The gearbox was coated with glyptal and baked. With the porous castings they are coated inside.
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There have been too many projects that have gotten ahead of my 206 but today worked on the seat rails and restoring the seat belts. The 206 seats have a rake adjustment.
