{"id":492359,"date":"2012-05-01T19:00:09","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T02:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=28653"},"modified":"2024-01-08T14:22:44","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T14:22:44","slug":"ercole-spada-design-design-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/ercole-spada-design-design-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ercole Spada \u2013 Design by Design"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ercole Spada started his design career with Carozzeria Zagato in 1960.
Photo: David Gooley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Artists and artisans have called Italy home for millennia, with pursuit of the arts a natural activity for countless Italians inspired by the natural beauty all around them. One with such a destiny arrived on July 26, 1937 in the town of Busto Arsizio, northwest of Milan, a newborn son of the Spada family named Ercole.<\/p>\n

After discovering his gift for drawing cars while studying industrial engineering at Milan\u2019s Instituto Technica Feltrinelli, Spada realized he could merge his passions for art and automobiles through a career in Italy\u2019s coachbuilding industry. Upon fulfilling his national military obligations, he went to the famed Milanese design house Carrozzeria Zagato early in 1960 to seek employment. There, Elio Zagato hired him on the spot after hearing affirmative answers to two questions: Could he make full-scale drawings, and did he have a degree?<\/p>\n

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Spada updated the look of Alfa\u2019s SZ with a \u201cCoda Tronca\u201d design that featured a more elongated body, with cut-off Kamm tail and enclosed headlights.\u00a0Photo: Casey Annis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Spada followed his Alfa Romeo TZ1 design, with the lower and more menacing looking TZ2.
Photo: David Gooley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In a classic win-win scenario, Ercole Spada\u2019s arrival commenced one of the most prolific periods in Zagato history. During the next decade he would create nearly 30 unique automobiles, most of them for Italian manufacturers like Alfa Romeo, Abarth, Maserati, Lancia, Ferrari and Fiat, but also for overseas companies such as Aston Martin, Rover and Volvo.<\/p>\n

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Photo: David Gooley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

His first assignment for Zagato was the Aston Martin DB4 GTZ, a car commissioned as the result of AM boss David Brown\u2019s desire to have a front rank contender ready for the burgeoning interest in Grand Touring automobiles that would mark the early \u201960s. Spada shortened, lightened and smoothed the standard DB4 into one of the most beautiful examples of the marque ever created. Powered by AM\u2019s triple-Weber-carbureted dohc six-cylinder engine, rated at more than 300 hp, the DB4 GTZ clocked zero to 60 mph in 6.0 seconds and topped out at 154 mph, both impressive figures for the day.<\/p>\n

The DB4 GTZ debuted to an admiring public at the 1960 London Motor Show, but was only the first of three Spada designs destined to captivate audiences that year. The Turin Auto Show later displayed his OSCA 1600 GTZ concept car for the world, while his Alfa Romeo Giulietta SZ debuted at the Geneva Motorshow that March.<\/p>\n

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Photo: David Gooley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

His update of the existing SZ\u2014for Sprint Zagato\u2014was Spada\u2019s initial design for Alfa Romeo, and the first car to feature the \u201ccut tail\u201d concept originally defined by Swiss aerodynamicist Wunibald Kamm that would become a characteristic of many Spada designs\u2014along with those of other designers. In addition to the truncated tailpiece, the new SZ was lower, sleeker, had its headlights enclosed behind Plexiglas fairings, and with its standard 1290-cc dohc 4-cylinder pumping 100 bhp through its 5-speed gearbox, top speed rose beyond 120 mph. Consequently, even though only 200 were produced, the car known as \u201cZagato\u2019s Little Jewel\u201d formed the heart of Alfa\u2019s formidable race and rally programs of the early 1960s.<\/p>\n

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Photo: David Gooley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Photo: David Gooley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A limited run of two-door \u201csport\u201d versions of Lancia\u2019s Flavia, a medium-sized luxury sedan, garnered Spada further notice, but then his attention returned to Alfa Romeo, where in 1962 he created the SZ\u2019s successor by cloaking Giuseppe Busso\u2019s small-diameter steel tube chassis in gloriously sleek aluminum alloy bodywork to produce the Giulia Tubolare Zagato (TZ). With independent suspension and disc brakes all around, the TZ\u2019s 160-hp, 1600-cc four could carry the sleek 650-kg coupe up to 135 mph. Seeing the Kamm-tailed TZ as the perfect vehicle to return the marque to competition, Alfa chairman Giuseppe Luraghi set up an in-house racing department called Autodelta under the direction of Carlo Chiti and Lodovico Chizzola, to assemble the cars and handle the company\u2019s racing program.<\/p>\n

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Father and child\u2014Spada stands proudly with an Alfa\u2008Romeo TZ1, one of his many Alfa Romeo designs, at the Pebble Beach Concours d\u2019Elegance.\u00a0Photo: David Gooley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Design study showing the evolution of Alfa Romeo front ends, culminating in Spada\u2019s design for the 155.\u00a0Photo: David Gooley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Continuing development of the TZ through competition ultimately led to the TZ2, the prototype of which retained the same chassis but carried a Spada-restyled alloy body. Subsequent examples had bodies crafted of fiberglass, however, a departure for Zagato, where aluminum had long been the favored medium for coachwork. Beyond its even\u00a0sleeker shape, among the other improvements Spada and Autodelta incorporated into the TZ2 were a 65-pound weight reduction, 13-inch wheels and a dry sump lubrication system for the 170 horsepower, 1600-cc engine that helped lower the car\u2019s center of gravity and reduce its frontal area. Although the car\u2019s competition debut at the 1965 24 Hours of Le Mans ended with all three entries failing to finish, when they returned to the tracks for the following season they won the 1.6-liter GT class wherever they ran. Only a dozen were built, however, with victory on the racetrack apparently not sufficient to save the model as Autodelta\u2019s attention shifted to the new GTA sedans and Tipo 33 prototypes.<\/p>\n

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Spada\u2019s first design, after joining Zagato, was the now iconic Aston Martin DB4 GTZ.
Photo: David Gooley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Another Lancia was next for Spada, as he gave the existing Flaminia Sport a Kamm tail and teardrop headlight openings, as well as the classic Zagato \u201cdouble bubble\u201d roofline, to create the Super Sport. Yet, another Lancia to benefit from Spada\u2019s talents was the front-wheel-drive Fulvia Sport, for which he designed a significantly sleeker aluminum monocoque body that led many to believe it was a concept car. Happily, Lancia\u2019s 1300-cc, 87 horsepower V4 engine provided performance to match its avant-garde looks.<\/p>\n

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Alfa Romeo Giulietta concept sketch.
Photo: David Gooley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Spada next undertook a redesign of Lamborghini\u2019s 350GT, producing the 3500GT with a body shape similar to his Alfa TZ2 on a chassis shortened 10-cm from standard. This car drew mixed reviews and only two were ever built, so it is generally considered to be a concept car. Another Spada concept, the Rover 2000 TCZ, first appeared at the 1967 Turin Motor Show, but was never seriously considered for production, perhaps because it looked a bit too Italian for the staid British automaker. The same basic shape did indeed reappear shortly thereafter as the Lancia Flavia Super Sport Zagato, two prototypes of which were built in 1968.<\/p>\n

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Spada\u2019s Ferrari FZ93 concept was a styling exercise designed to give the 1993 Ferrari Testa Rossa a technologically updated look.
Photo: David Gooley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Alfa Romeo Junior Z, however, became the car with which Spada realized his latest concept on a car that actually reached the production line. The wedge-shaped hatchback with superb visibility and truncated tail first appeared at the Turin Auto Show in 1969, visually different from anything else at that time and set to satisfy a marketing niche for an original sporty compact GT. The steel-bodied coupe was based on Alfa\u2019s Giulia 105 series, sharing the same platform and running gear as the Spider and powered by Alfa\u2019s standard dohc 4-cylinder. It went into series production as the result of a conversation on the show floor between Alfa CEO Luraghi and the Zagato brothers, Elio and Gianni, with some 1510 examples being built, their power plants split about three to one in favor of the 1300 over the 1600. This was the car that lifted Zagato onto equal footing with Bertone and Pininfarina among Alfa\u2019s contract coachbuilders.<\/p>\n

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The 1969 Alfa Romeo Junior Z saw 1510 examples of Spada\u2019s design produced in 1300-cc and 1600-cc configurations.
Photo: David Gooley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A further variation of Spada\u2019s basic wedgy fastback shape appeared in 1969 as the Volvo GTZ 2000, a concept car based on the Swedish automaker\u2019s 142 sedan. Despite being well received, it never moved beyond the concept stage.<\/p>\n

As the \u201960s were ending, Spada decided to leave his position with Zagato to strike out on his own as a freelance designer. During his time with the famed design studio he had risen from a fresh-off-the-street newcomer to become the firm\u2019s chief designer, with soft, streamlined shapes and smooth lines characterizing his work.<\/p>\n

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Photo: David Gooley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

His first solo commission (though still a collaboration with Zagato) was a radical redesign of the Fiat 500, transforming the economy sedan into a topless, buggy-style sports car called the Zanzara\u2014Italian for mosquito. Spada\u2019s next challenge took him to Ford, as the American giant acquired the Italian design houses of Ghia, Vignale and de Tomaso. He remained chief designer there until 1976, when he briefly worked with Audi before moving to BMW, where as chief stylist he turned his talents toward all-new versions of the German company\u2019s 5 and 7 series sedans.<\/p>\n

Upon leaving BMW in 1983, Spada joined the five-year-old I.DE.A Institute, an automotive design and engineering group in Turin. There he tackled a number of interesting projects, including:<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Fiat Tipo, a roomy five-door hatchback family car on an all-new platform that appeared in 1988 with body panels galvanized to preclude rusting, that was selected as European Car of the Year in 1989:<\/p>\n

\u2022 That same year, the Institute was commissioned to create a unique Pace Car for Indycar series sponsor PPG, based on a Ferrari Mondial, that cost $1 million and became a showcase for PPG\u2019s paint products;<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Lancia Dedra, a 1989 four-door sedan built on the Fiat Tipo floorplan that helped relaunch Lancia in the compact executive car segment and boasted a remarkable drag coefficient of just 0.29;<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Fiat Tempra, another four-door sedan, introduced at the 1990 Geneva Auto Salon and intended to be an affordable and dependable family car that, like the Fiat Tipo, featured galvanized body panels;<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Alfa Romeo 155, a compact, front-wheel-drive executive car with a slick 0.29 coefficient of aerodynamic drag that was launched in 1992 as the replacement for Alfa\u2019s previous 75 sedan, even though the switch to front-wheel-drive was not very well-received;<\/p>\n

\u2022 A second-generation Lancia Delta, also known as the Nuova, appeared in 1993, another small family car based on the Fiat Tipo platform;<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Lancia Kappa was built on the same platform as Alfa Romeo\u2019s 166, and introduced as the carmaker\u2019s flagship executive car in 1994;<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Daihatsu Move appeared late in 1995, designed to meet the requirements of Japanese regulations for lightweight cars, vans and pickup trucks, otherwise known as kei cars. It was a tall-bodied, minivan-style vehicle based on the company\u2019s Cuore chassis that turned out to be a sales success.<\/p>\n

Those projects helped keep Spada busy through 1992 when he returned to Zagato for a two-year stint as Design Director before leaving again to open his own studio. His return was celebrated by the company with an ambitious project to give the fabulous Ferrari Testarossa a makeover, the project assigned the name of FZ93 (Formula Zagato 1993) and intended as a styling exercise that embodied the latest deveopments in automotive technology. As a nod to then current Formula One technology it featured a raised nose section that proved unattractive to many observers, but which was designed to serve as a bumper that could absorb low-speed impacts without passing damage on to the surrounding bodywork. It also incorporated Zagato\u2019s trademark \u201cdouble bubble\u201d roof design. A subsequent redesign, the ES1, both honored Spada and made for a more pleasing appearance, and is credited with influencing the look of the Ferrari Enzo supercar that followed a decade later.<\/p>\n

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Photo: David Gooley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

These days Spada oversees the work of Spada Concepts & Design, in Milan, the same town from which he began his career more than 50 years ago. Working with his son, Paulo, they are establishing a new family tradition, adding Paulo\u2019s own experience working for Smart and Honda\u2019s Advanced Design Studio to that his father has acquired over the years. Their combined expertise gives them the capability to handle a broad array of projects while developing prototypes from conception to creation.<\/p>\n

In 2008, the Spadas also launched their own supercar, the Spada TS Codatronca, a natural evolution of the design philosophies that have characterized Ercole\u2019s entire career. The limited-production Codatronca had its premier showing at that year\u2019s Top Marques Monaco, a luxury and supercar show, where it was chosen as the most beautiful car of the exhibition by the New York Times. It is a characteristically sleek and slippery GT coupe powered by a seven-liter aluminum V8, mounted in the front and driving through a close-ratio 6-speed transmission.<\/p>\n

So it is that the tradition of family artisans passing along their knowledge to their sons continues as Paulo absorbs the lessons of his father\u2019s experience, expanding and extending the family\u2019s legacy just as Italians have done for centuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Artists and artisans have called Italy home for millennia, with pursuit of the arts a natural activity for countless Italians inspired by the natural beauty all around them. One with such a destiny arrived on July 26, 1937 in the town of Busto Arsizio, northwest of Milan, a newborn son of the Spada family named Ercole. 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