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Old 27th October 2021, 07:23
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Rust? On an Italian car? Surely, that's just patina.

There's an article in this month's Octane Magazine about a barn-find Dino restoration, which cost the owner £80k on top of the £140k purchase price (a bargain as it's now worth £350k+).

Interestingly, there are no direct pictures of the back end, but in one shot taken from the side you can clearly see that it has the Ferrari script badge on the rear deck.

As the Dino wasn't sold as a Ferrari, but a separate, budget brand and was never badged as a Ferrari by the factory, shouldn't Maranello send their lawyers out to have it crushed lest it damage their brand?

I'm also 100% behind the Judge with the pile of bricks analogy. No matter how beautiful a car is, it was created to perform a function such as winning races, breaking speed records or appealing to the masses to achieve volume sales, not just for aesthetic appreciation like a sculpture, painting or Tracey Emin's soiled bedding (a snip at $3.77m).
https://time.com/2933839/tracey-emin-my-bed-auctioned/

Hopefully, JLR, Ferrari et al will lose any case they try to bring in the UK due to that, very sensible, judgement.
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