Here’s your chance to own a coveted sportscar on a normal person’s budget. Or at least, to own a car that very much looks like a certain coveted sporscar, if a Dino is your cup of tea. That is, if you don’t open the doors, or hood. Or trunk, because the car in question, a tip turned up by Curvette, is actually a Porsche Boxster from the 2000 model year with redone body panels that replicate the Dino. See it here on ebay in all its glory. Then, if you decide a kit car (the ad’s language) is for you, you can meet the seller’s asking price. That means that you have 16 days to come up with $125,000. You’ll then find a way to get to Lakewood, CA, to pick up your car. I might suggest the Long Beach Airport as a hassle-free variant on flying into LAX.
You may have heard of the Dino, a tiny “don’t-call-it-a-Ferrari” model produced by Ferrari and sold simply as the Dino in a couple of series that ran from 1968-74 in its main variants. That name came from the son of Enzo, who died in 1956. Why didn’t it get the “Ferrari” badge? Because among other reasons, it was not a 12-cylinder car, but a 6-banger, and thus could not be given the hallowed distinction that that nameplate would have conveyed. Later models, note, did get the Ferrari nomenclature, and most fans of the car these days consider it a Ferrari no matter what the nameplate says.
The actual Dino is scaled down in size from the regular run of Ferraris, but not less beautiful for that. The replica in question here seems to be fairly true to the body lines of an actual Dino, so it might be a car you’d be happy approaching with key in hand. The side profile view is particularly lovely, for instance. However, your new Porsche/Dino will continue to throw questions into your mind. Does it sound like a Ferrari? How accurate is the replica body? How disappointed are you going to be behind the wheel, when in truth you’re driving a 2000 model-year Boxster, a fine car in its own right, but something you could have for ten to fifteen grand all day long?
If you’re a glass-half-full kind of person, you could see the $125,000 price tag as a ridiculous bargain compared to a real Dino. The alternative is that you see this car as $100G’s for a bunch of fiberglass and twenty-five more for a used and previously wrecked Boxster S. Perhaps an in-person viewing will help tip you from one side of this equation to the other.
Besides the $125k issues mentioned… pink? Not just pink but Pepto Bismol pink.
This was on BaT last November where it stalled out at $48,200. Trying to find a buyer…
The fit & finish (according to the pictures) appears
to look good,but somehow it just doesn’t look right.
If the glass, as mentioned, is only half full, pour it into a smaller glass and quit complaining. As to this car, it is what it is (in an awful-looking interior color), a fake Dino, and definitely not worth even half the asking price. Seller is trolling for a big fish.
$125k Boxster S.😂. Good luck!
$125k with that interior color and those wheels?
OK, I gotta say, as a “kit car” goes, this is awesome, and if I could fit into it, I’d be all over it.
Also, it would have to be no more than $15,000.00.
Yes, wheels are gross, the interior color is baffling, and personally, I’d want to put a different steering wheel on it, without the Porsche crest.
Lol – “2000 porscbe boxster S Ferrari Lamborghini McLaren
Rebodied 2000 Porsche Boxster S Ferrari Lamborghini”. Trolling for a blind big fish!
I see power window switches on the center console so I assume the window cranks on the doors are fake. Which is nuts.
Believe that window crank is for the wing window.
Or the donor Boxster had power windows whereas the Dino clone doesn’t, and leaving the switches in place was easier than fabbing up plugs or a cover for where they got removed.
Speaking of windows, the squared-off side windows here really let down the look and give away the game, along with the missing triplet of vents in the solid buttresses.
You could buy 5 boxster “s” circa 2000 with under 30k miles for this price. IMHO they look good and run good.