Bob Koure
1 min readMar 7, 2023

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That Ferrari 'Dino' V6 was designed by Vittorio Jano, who had previously been at Lancia. Ferrari ended up developing it for F2 at the prompting of - and with some input from - Enzio's son Dino, who sadly didn't live to see it. Jano had been responsible for the Aurelia at Lancia, which was similarly a V6.

So Lancia probably could have created a clone of the Dino.

When I was a teen, my dad was considering self-importing a Dino (the entire car, not just the engine) and I got interested. Possibly interestingly, he ended up buying a Datsun 280Z, which had an engine that appeared to be a mirror image of a Mercedes inline 6. Great backroads car! But to quote my dad's buddy who owned a body shop: "Robert, if you put that car in a dark room, you can *hear* it rust!". That L type engine went 300K miles, and then the car was sold. Wish I'd bought it, but I was away at school, came home to find it gone. Sigh.

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Bob Koure
Bob Koure

Written by Bob Koure

Retired software architect, statistical analyst, hotel mgr, bike racer, distance swimmer. Photographer. Amateur historian. Avid reader. Home cook. Never-FBer

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