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Whilst this Italian classic might look like it’s been immaculately cared for since it left the showroom, it actually has an interesting story to tell. This 1974 Ferrari Dino 246 GTS was stolen and buried in the garden of a house in South Central LA. Four years after its burial, it was discovered by some young kids who were playing and digging in their garden. The car was in a terrible state and was returned to the insurance company. Despite its condition, the car’s current owner Brad Howard bought it in the late 1970’s and had it restored to how it looked originally. Brad has no plans on selling his prized car, and said: “For a car that got painted over 40 years ago, it’s still holding up pretty good.”

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00:00Unique, sexy, fun.
00:05What you have here now is the same car
00:09that was underground for a good almost four years.
00:13I 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.
00:50But 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,
01:10and supposedly that's how it was found.
01:12Brad bought the car in the late 70s,
01:15and it's been in his care ever since.
01:18Everything was intact except the front windshield.
01:25They 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, all 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.
01:41When 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, and 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 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.
02:14And after four decades together,
02:16there's no chance of Brad and his Dino parting ways now.
02:24I 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 that was underground for a good almost four years.
02:37I had brought it back to what it is today.
02:40It kind of preserved underground.
02:43A car that's been painted almost four years ago.
02:47It's still holding up pretty good.
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03:09It'susto built for that part of the factory,
03:10that's what I want a smell last year.
03:11I'm glad the filling looks for you in here.
03:15Put in at the large hole of the factory
03:17by filming for lunch.
03:18Now it enters a barium and the station.
03:21I need to follow up.
03:24Now we do the frying pan.

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