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5 days ago
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This 1973 Ferrari Dino 246 GTS Won the NY-to-LA Cannonball Dash 50 Years Ago. Now You Can Buy It
read the full story In 1975, Jack May and Rick Cline drove this Ferrari from New York to Los Angeles in 35 hours and 53 minutes, winning that year's Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash. Fifty years ago, this Dino made a record-setting run. Owner Jack May and co-driver Rick Cline averaged 83 mph driving from New York to Los Angeles. This plaque commemorates their achievement. After 50 years, Jack May is only now selling his car. The Dino is in unrestored condition. Because they'd be driving flat-out, May and Cline turned the tachometer to put the redline in a more visible position. In Wichita, Kansas, the team had to perform some emergency repairs. The parts receipt is still affixed to the car. Keep scrolling to see more pictures of this historic Dino. You Might Also Like Car and Driver's 10 Best Cars through the Decades How to Buy or Lease a New Car Lightning Lap Legends: Chevrolet Camaro vs. Ford Mustang!
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28-07-2025
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Historic 1973 Ferrari Dino 246 GTS Cannonball Winner Heads to Mecum Auction in Monterey
Read the full story on Modern Car Collector A piece of American automotive lore is set to cross the auction block as the legendary 1973 Ferrari Dino 246 GTS that conquered the 1975 Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash will be offered at Mecum's Monterey 2025 auction on August 16. The Bianco Polo White Dino, chassis number 05984, was driven to victory by SCCA racer Jack May and co-driver Rick Cline, who blasted from New York to Los Angeles in 35 hours and 53 minutes—a world-record time at the event. Averaging 83 mph, the feat landed the duo in the pages of TIME Magazine and cemented their place in automotive history. Still owned by the May family, the car remains in highly original, unrestored condition, showing 50,819 miles. Evidence of its famed cross-country run remains intact, including handwritten trunk markings and even spark plug packaging taped to the trunk wall from the 1975 journey. May, who chose the Dino over his Ferrari Daytona for its more discreet profile, pushed the V6-powered coupe to its limits, enduring a fouled spark plug, a fuel leak, a brush with Arizona jackrabbits, and even a brief arrest in Ohio. 'That Ohio cop was a super guy,' May recalled. 'I think he was sympathetic—he even showed us the fastest way back to the Interstate.' Mechanically, the Dino remains as it was when May raced it, retaining its 2.4-liter DOHC V6, 5-speed manual transaxle, and minor Cannonball-era tweaks such as wiper flaps for high-speed downforce and a rotated tachometer for easier viewing at speed. One of just 1,274 GTS models built, the Pininfarina-designed, Scaglietti-bodied Dino remains an icon of both Italian design and American outlaw spirit. Expected to draw strong interest, it represents a rare opportunity to own not just a classic Ferrari, but a bona fide chapter of Cannonball history. This amazing Ferrari Dino is selling at Mecum's Daytime Auction in Monterey, California. There will be many amazing vehicles to choose from and you can see them here. To register to bid visit Follow us on Facebook and Twitter
Car and Driver
24-06-2025
- Automotive
- Car and Driver
This Cannonball Run–Winning 1973 Dino 246 GTS Is Today's Auction Find
A Dino 246 GTS is a desirable collector car. This one just happens to be a Cannonball winner too. It was driven across the country from New York to Los Angeles in 1975 in just under 36 hours. Original and unrestored, this well-preserved example of 1970s road rebellion will go on the block at a Mecum auction during Monterey Car Week in August. On April 25, 1975, Jack May and Rick Cline rolled into the parking lot of the Portofino Inn in Redondo Beach, California. Driving a white Ferrari Dino 246 GTS, the pair had just pipped the record set by racing hero Dan Gurney and Car and Driver's Brock Yates four years earlier by an improbable one minute, clocking a total of 35 hours and 53 minutes to drive from New York to Los Angeles at breakneck speed. Now, someone new will soon be able to own this Cannonball-winning Dino. The inaugural Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash is by now a legendary piece of Car and Driver history. Dreamed up as a sort of high-speed protest against the restrictive speed limits of the early 1970s, the first event was not really a race at all but a dash across the continental U.S. in a Dodge van. Yates named the event after Erwin "Cannonball" Baker, an early-20th-century daredevil who racked up more than half a million miles of cross-country records in his day and would later race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway and be appointed the first NASCAR commissioner. The second Cannonball really was a race, though an unsanctioned and illegal one. At the time, the population of the U.S. was less than two-thirds of what it is now, meaning a lot of the interstate network was pretty empty apart from rush-hour traffic. Driving point to point across the country as fast as possible wasn't exactly safe, especially with 1970s tire and brake technology, but the risk to Cannonballers was mostly to themselves. Mecum Auctions The Gurney and Yates win was about as romantic as you can get, accomplished with a blue Ferrari 365GTB/4 Daytona. Gurney had plenty of experience driving at high speed for extended periods, being a Le Mans winner, and when an article about the 1971 Cannonball was published in the March 1972 issue of Car and Driver, it grabbed the public's imagination. After all it's hard to resist the allure of some wide open desert highway with the power of a Ferrari V-12 underfoot. Or a V-6 (yes, a Dino is technically not a Ferrari, but the engine is built by Maranello). The Cannonball-winning 1973 Dino GTS that's up for auction at this year's Monterey Car Week has a 2.4-liter V-6 that made just shy of 200 horsepower when new, pitted against around 2500 pounds. The S in "GTS" stands for spider, as the car has a removable top so you can listen to that six sing its heart out. With its five-speed manual transmission that has exposed metal gates, it's a wonderfully balanced and raw driving experience. Mecum Auctions A Dino GTS is rarer than an F40 and is a highly collectible machine all by itself. This one having the provenance of 1970s rebellion just adds to the appeal. Mecum notes it's in original and unrestored condition. The last official Cannonball ran in 1979, although there were many imitators and tribute runs over the years. But roads are far busier at all hours in modern times, and even though the elapsed drive time between New York and Los Angeles has been bested time and time again over the years, the romance of cross-continent record-setting wore off decades ago. This Dino hails from a time when it was still cool—daredevils against the system and its speed traps. It only beat the record by a minute, but it did so when the Cannonball still meant something. Brendan McAleer Contributing Editor Brendan McAleer is a freelance writer and photographer based in North Vancouver, B.C., Canada. He grew up splitting his knuckles on British automobiles, came of age in the golden era of Japanese sport-compact performance, and began writing about cars and people in 2008. His particular interest is the intersection between humanity and machinery, whether it is the racing career of Walter Cronkite or Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki's half-century obsession with the Citroën 2CV. He has taught both of his young daughters how to shift a manual transmission and is grateful for the excuse they provide to be perpetually buying Hot Wheels. Read full bio
