Oro Kelso was a special color painted on only 3 Dinos. Steve K. at surface masters is currently painting this color on an original car delivered in this color. The owner bought it in boxes and will be comimg to my shop in early January to hopefully get it all back together.
The car has been stripped and ready to o to Steve’s for about 4 months
My friend is the chief designer at Cobra Golf. When Puma bought Cobra his group was given the assignment to develop and design a whole line for Ferrari. The day the group started the brainstorming they had me bring over my Scuderia to get their creative juices flowing. Two years later they had me bring my Dino for the launch. He gave me a driver as a thank you!
My third one! Hopefully I’m smart enough to keep this one. 8,000 miles, factory stripe and Rosso Scuderia.
The owner hadn’t decided on a color but was leaning towards blue. We were told this car was originally silver. As I was stripping it down there right in front of me was a remnant of the original color. The car came from the factory wearing Dino Blue Metallizzato, the owner decided that’s what it will be. I really like this trend with owners going back to original colors.
I was contacted by a guy in New York who had stumbled upon dinorestoration.com and loved the two restorations I had done and wondered if I would be willing to take on a new project. Of course I said yes and in one day’s time I picked up the car in Los Angeles and brought it to my shop. It will mostly be a cosmetic restoration although the engine will come out for new synchros. As soon as I have it apart it will go to Steve Kouracos for one of his fantastic paint jobs.
Another project to work on. It’s a 74 GTS original color black and will stay black. The owner has chosen red leather with red carpet. All the trim to be done in black dino vinyl and the dash in Henk’s material from the Netherlands.
After several years of work #O4946 is done! It is a 73GT, 1 0f 5 coupes imported to the USA with flares and shares. I know, some of you will have to look away. The car was originally yellow with black interior. It was later painted red, then black and now Azzurro Metallizzato. Steve K. did a fabulous paint job and came out of retirement to paint this car. Since this one he’s done a half dozen and more lined up. As you can see (for you purists) I took a few liberties. I changed the black on the bottom so it doesn’t hide the beautifully sculpted air intakes at the front. I also just have individual air cleaners rather than the stock one which hides the engine. I used Henks dash material and vinyl. I had Cavallo Motorsports do all the adjusting etc so it runs and drives perfect. It has about 400 miles now on it to work out all the kinks and fully sort things.
