00:00Unique, sexy, fun.
00:05What you have here now is the same car that was underground for a good almost four years.
00:13I had brought it back to what it is today.
00:24I like to drive it in the hills. I like the perkiness of it, the steering capability.
00:28In the cornering, it's incredible.
00:30This is a 1974 Dino.
00:33While this Italian classic may look like it's been immaculately cared for since it left the showroom,
00:39it in fact has an interesting story to tell.
00:45I was told the owner of the car had bought the car for his wife for her birthday.
00:51But just days later, the vehicle was stolen.
00:56Four years passed, then new homeowners made a surprising discovery.
01:02It was a big drought in L.A. for almost four years.
01:05It started raining and the kids were playing in the backyard, hit the back of the tunnel,
01:09then they brought in the police and unearthed it and supposedly that's how it was found.
01:13Brad bought the car in the late 70s and it's been in his care ever since.
01:20Everything was intact except the front windshield.
01:23They hit it with a shovel. It had a splatter mark on it.
01:27All the other windows in the car itself, front, back, even the chrome, all the settings,
01:33all of the trim around the front and the back, all of that's original.
01:37I have two wheels on there that are original.
01:40When I got it, I bought the same wheel for the car, which is the Campanola Dino wheels.
01:46Even in those days, I about passed out when I bought them.
01:49I think I paid $500 a piece for a wheel.
01:55The interior was dry and the leather itself was actually still quite nice.
02:01Actually, it was in good shape.
02:03A lot different than what people would assume a car would be that would be underground for that long.
02:08The paint job that was done is the same paint job that I had done in 1978.
02:13I haven't touched it up since.
02:15And after four decades together, there's no chance of Brad and his Dino parting ways now.
02:24I had many people, friends of mine, that always wanted to buy the car and I said,
02:27I didn't buy the car to sell it.
02:29What you have here now is the same car that was underground for a good almost four years.
02:37I had brought it back to what it is today.
02:40Kind of preserved underground.
02:44A car that's been painted almost four years ago.
02:48Still holding up pretty good.
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