Features

Back to Library >
ti icon

Features

Our Cars: Julian’s Dino

3 years ago

not bookmarked

Writer:

Julian Thomson | Designer

Date:

20 December 2021

I’m not really sure what kids put on their bedroom walls these days. I suspect it’s a mix of computer game heroes, footballers and K-pop stars.

But in the Seventies, it was all about cars. Athena will probably be best remembered for the saucy tennis player photograph, but the poster merchant would also have made a small fortune peddling images of Lamborghini Countachs, Ferrari Testarossas and flat-nosed Porsche 911 Turbos.

My teenage bedroom was no different from most. Alongside pictures of Blondie and Raquel Welch I had loads of photos of Ferraris. An early red 365 GT4 Berlinetta Boxer, a large black and white image of Gilles Villeneuve sideways in a Ferrari 312T4 and, in pride of place, a shot of a Giallo Fly Dino 246 GT from a 1970 Automobile Year annual.

Start your 30-day free trial to continue reading this article.

Begin free trial

Already subscribed? Click here to log in.

ti icon

Library

Breaking the ice record

Doing 200mph is one thing, but doing it on ice is quite another. Dr Ulrich Eichhorn recalls his part in one of the maddest record attempts ever

not bookmarked

The end of the road

Bentley is killing its W12 engine, but we won’t miss it much. The V8 has always been the one to have, argues Dan Prosser

not bookmarked

The longest-lived engine of all

Former Bentley engineering boss Dr Ulrich Eichhorn recalls the rise, fall, rebirth and final retirement of the Rolls-Bentley V8, and how he turned it up to 11

not bookmarked

How to revive an icon: Part two

Bringing back a much-loved brand can lead to great success, dismal failure and, at times, total ignominy. Andrew English looks at the best and perhaps the very worst

not bookmarked

No ordinary amateur

By the time the cars got to Firenze, the 978-mile, 1952 Mille Miglia race seemed almost over. In torrential winds and rain, sportscar specialists Karl Kling and Hans Klenk...

not bookmarked

Rethink racing

Why have only two women ever started a World Championship Grand Prix? Not a lack of ability argues Joana Fidalgo, but lack of opportunity

not bookmarked