Yes- Lusso's have really come into their own. Was not a fan back then but they have really grown on me.
Yes - you probably would have sold it too soon- many did- I sure did with my 55 Speedster which was rust-free that I bought one month after I began my lease on the Dino. It required using all the money I had leftover from selling my 911 and paying the Dino seller his $1800. Car rich- cash poor. I kept it for 30 years and sold it because some guy kept nagging to buy it from me- and for some reason, I felt that I had too many cars. As my luck would have it I sold it three years before they started selling for stupid money. I blame Jerry Steinfeld. I kept the '61 cabriolet-- which I had built for autocross and took on our honeymoon 32 years ago because it was and still is, way more fun shod with Hoosiers than the stock Speedster. I still have my '61.
Back to your head-smack memory of the Lusso--I sort of made the same mistake you did. On my street in Arlington, there were three independent single-owner exotic car dealers who always had the cream of the crop race and street European cars. They all eventually moved their shops down to Florida where the real money was. Of course, DC has come way up in the money, judging from the Cars and Coffee photos my friend sends me every week.
I used to visit each of them every weekend- either in my '55 Speedster (which they would sneer at) or my Dino- never in my '58 bug which was my everyday car.
One day there is a Luso sitting there and the dealer said he would trade me my new Dino and $5K for the Luso. At the time I thought he was nuts because to me the Lusso was a huge old man's sports car compared to my Dino -plus it would have taken me about six years to clear $5K again. So I passed. I also passed on a bit of a worn 206 GT which looked shabby to me with its crank-up windows and vinyl interior.
But even though I could have come out way ahead if I had traded for either one- owning my Dino has always been the right choice for me.
