Tuesday 23rd July 2013

Ferrari 196S 'Dino': Time for Tea?

One of Ferrari's rarest sportscar racers on video - and it's for sale on PH!

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When a email arrives from DK Engineering with a link to 'probably the most expensive car ever on PH?!', everyday obligations tend to be discarded. Especially when there's a video to accompany it.

Racing provenance doesn't come cheap...

The car in question is a Ferrari 196S Dino, the first V6 racer made carrying the name of Enzo's son. This car, chassis number 0776, was the first of only three cars built at the end of 1959 for the 1960 season and campaigned by the Rodriguez brothers Pedro and Ricardo. Ergo, even when discussing Ferrari's sportscar heritage, the 196S is quite some car.

Fortunately, the accompanying footage isn't the standard video that can be found in car adverts (but then this is hardly a standard car!). The Millbrook Alpine route plays host to the 196S Dino and its glorious V6, the presenter certainly not keeping much in reserve when driving this hugely valuable Ferrari.

Ah yes, the value. After some not so covert digging (we asked DK upfront), we found that any prospective buyer should be willing to part with between £6.5 and £10 million pounds. Judging by this video, it could be worth every penny.

See the 196S advert here

 

 

[phast]

Any doctors out there who can tell me how many of my organs I can sell before I would be unable to drive the car?

[Monty Zoomer]

DK Engineering said:

probably the most expensive car ever on PH?!

How can they sell a car if they don't know how much it is?

[DeolTheBeast]

Oh my

[kambites]

Interesting, I didn't know Ferrari ever made a front engined V6 model.

[strudel]

Monty Zoomer said:

DK Engineering said:

probably the most expensive car ever on PH?!

How can they sell a car if they don't know how much it is?

Auction / sealed bids I guess. Or they have a price in mind and they're just waiting for a good offer!

[NRS]

Goodness! I would pay a lot of money that I don't have for that engine sound!

Bet PH wish it did adverts on a percentage of price basis now,

[sinbaddio]

Surely there's a certain ginger Radio 2 presenter who'd be interested in this little number? Altho it may be too much even by his standards!

[ellroy]

Utterly stunning.

Apart rom the buyer that chap is amongst the luckiest of people on this planet at present.

What a privilege it must be to give that the beans.

[kambites]

NRS said:

Goodness! I would pay a lot of money that I don't have for that engine sound!

Bet PH wish it did adverts on a percentage of price basis now,

I guess you could get one of these to sound reasonably similar for rather less money. Not quite as pretty though.

[johnnnnnnyy]

Funny... viewing this page a 'We buy any car' banner appeared. Love to see what their system does when you 'enter your reg number now' !

[j90gta]

kambites said:

Interesting, I didn't know Ferrari ever made a front engined V6 model.

The 246 formula 1 cars of the 50's as driven by Mike Hawthorn were front engined V6's.

[mickk]

A hell of a difference between £6.5 and £10 million pounds.

[aarondbs]

mickk said:

A hell of a difference between £6.5 and £10 million pounds.

not so much difference if you had several hundred millions in spare cash/liquid assets. I would guess the buyer of this would likely be in that league...

[Weatherbee]

mickk said:

A hell of a difference between £6.5 and £10 million pounds.

My thought exactly.

[Benbay001]

sinbaddio said:

Surely there's a certain ginger Radio 2 presenter who'd be interested in this little number? Altho it may be too much even by his standards!

Someone Tweet it to him?
Or is this the sort of thing that those in the know already know about?

[Bencolem]

Super video though, really well done.

[4rephill]

Benbay001 said:

sinbaddio said:

Surely there's a certain ginger Radio 2 presenter who'd be interested in this little number? Altho it may be too much even by his standards!

Someone Tweet it to him?
Or is this the sort of thing that those in the know already know about?

I suspect he's already well aware of this car being for sale (from the "Those in the know" scenario).

However, he has only just recently bought a 1961 Ferrari 250 TR61 for an undisclosed sum so I'm doubtful he's in the market for this car.

[Snoggledog]

I loved the way it squirmed slightly went it went over the crest. Brown trouser moment?

[mickk]

aarondbs said:

mickk said:

A hell of a difference between £6.5 and £10 million pounds.

not so much difference if you had several hundred millions in spare cash/liquid assets. I would guess the buyer of this would likely be in that league...

Buyer: I'm interested in the red car, how much?

Seller Between £6.5 and 10 million pound.

Buyer: Okay, I'll give you 6.5 million.

Is that not how it works?

[Oddball RS]

Lets lose the music, its not much to ask, its is for 'Petrolheads' and a 'special' almost unique sound.