Pininfarina Architect of Cars

This is the second volume in the Pininfarina story, and is focused on the post war period with the company's change from traditional coachbuilding to being designers for the mass market, manufacturers of small series and artist-engineers deeply com¬mitted and highly equipped to plan and prototype the vehicles of tomorrow. By 1958 Battista (Pinin)'s son Sergio and son-in-law Renzo Carli had moved the company into a new factory at Grugliasco and the way was made clear for the de¬velopment of their own mass-production capabilities with Fiat Spiders and Peugeot Coupes, to name but two. In the specialist field such design exercises as the Fiat 130 Coupe have demonstrated that none of the flair has been lost —though by then there was a large design staff at work in the new Study and Research Centre which now boasts such technology as a Wind Tunnel, a computer and in 1976, Numerical Control Machines. Exotic brands such as Ferrari, Alfa Romeo and Lanica receive good coverage, with additional information being covered in the appendices, such as coachwork production for Ferrari during the period 1954 to 1966 on such models as the Monza 250 Spider Competizione, Ferrari Specials, 410 SA Coupe, 250 GT Cabriolet, Berlinetta Competizione, Cabriolet Speciale, Superamerica Coupe, 410 Superamerica Coupe Speciale, Aerodinamica Coupe, Superamerica Coupe 2+2, 400 Superamerica Cabriolet, Coupe Speciale, Superamerica Coupe 400, 406A Berlinetta, 414 Superfast Coupe, 500 Super Fast Coupe, and the 365P California Cabriolet 2 Posti, A story told in pictures, this absorbing book clearly shows that through all the years, the flair for design has neither been lost nor have the skills been forgotten.