00:00Unique, sexy, fun.
00:04What you have here now is the same car
00:09that was underground for a good almost four years.
00:12I had brought it back to what it is today.
00:23I like to drive it in the hills.
00:25I like the perkiness of it, the steering capability.
00:28In the cornering, it's incredible.
00:30This is the 1974 Dino.
00:32While this Italian classic
00:34may look like it's been immaculately cared for
00:37since it left the showroom,
00:39it in fact has an interesting story to tell.
00:44I was told the owner of the car
00:47had bought the car for his wife for her birthday.
00:51But just days later, the vehicle was stolen.
00:55Four years passed.
00:57Then new homeowners made a surprising discovery.
01:01It was a big drought in L.A. for almost four years.
01:04It started raining and the kids were playing in the backyard,
01:07hit the back of the tunnel,
01:08and then they brought in the police and unearthed it,
01:11and supposedly that's how it was found.
01:13Brad bought the car in the late 70s,
01:15and it's been in his care ever since.
01:21Everything was intact except the front windshield.
01:24They hit it with a shovel.
01:26It had a splatter mark on it.
01:28All the other windows in the car itself,
01:30front, back, even the chrome,
01:32all the settings,
01:34all of the trim around the front and the back,
01:37all of that's original.
01:38I have two wheels on there that are original.
01:40When I got it, I bought the same wheel for the car,
01:43which is the Campanola Dino wheels.
01:46Even in those days, I passed out when I bought them.
01:49I think I paid $500 a piece for a wheel.
01:55The interior was dry,
01:58and the leather itself was actually still quite nice.
02:01It actually was in good shape.
02:03A lot different than what people would assume a car would be,
02:06that it would be underground for that long.
02:08The paint job that was done is the same paint job
02:11that I had done in 1978.
02:13I haven't touched it up since.
02:14And after four decades together,
02:16there's no chance of Brad and his Dino parting ways now.
02:23I had many people, friends of mine,
02:25that always wanted to buy the car,
02:26and I said I didn't buy the car to sell it.
02:28What you have here now is the same car
02:32that was underground for a good,
02:35almost four years.
02:36I had brought it back to what it is today.
02:40It kind of preserved underground.
02:43The car that's been in it almost four years ago,
02:47it's still holding up pretty good.
02:49It has been their stories.
02:56Let's see you in the next part,
02:56We're a little bit asking you guys.
02:56We're going to be here as a scene.
03:01We're going to have fun.
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