{"id":492590,"date":"2012-09-01T03:11:54","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T10:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=25523"},"modified":"2024-01-08T15:04:49","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T15:04:49","slug":"sergio-pininfarina-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/sergio-pininfarina-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Sergio Pininfarina Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Italy and the world lost one of the most accomplished stylists of all time in early July, when Sergio Pininfarina died after a long illness. He was born Sergio Farina in 1926, the son of Battista \u201cPinin\u201d Farina who founded the family\u2019s body styling business on\u00a0 May 22, 1930.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Such was the impact of the company on Italian life that Battista\u2019s nickname was allowed to be incorporated into the family name by a special decree of the then President of Italy Giovanni Gronchi in 1961. And from then on, the name Pininfarina simply became the pinnacle of automobile creativity, elegance and fine taste.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sergio graduated in mechanical engineering from Turin Polytechnic in 1950 and joined his father in the business, which had stepped up from designing and building bodies for rich individuals to small production runs of its creations on the mechanicals of Alfa Romeos, Hispano-Suizas, Lancias and Fiats. In 1947, the company created the Cisitalia 202 coup\u00e9, a car of such elegance that it is now exhibited in New York\u2019s Museum of Modern Art. But all that was just a beginning as the company began to work with the car manufacturers themselves at the end of the Fifties, starting with Peugeot before Alfa Romeo ordered a massive 27,000 Giulietta Spiders from them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ROADn11-201209-p1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-710523 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ROADn11-201209-p1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ROADn11-201209-p1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ROADn11-201209-p1-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ROADn11-201209-p1-71x100.jpg 71w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ROADn11-201209-p1-293x410.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>In 1961, Battista handed over control of his company to Sergio, and that kick-started one of the most illustrious careers in car design. In the Sixties, he conceived such motoring icons as the Alfa Romeo Spider \u201cDuetto,\u201d the Ferrari Dino 246, the Fiat 124 Sport Spider and the Ferrari Dino Spider. At the end of that decade, the company transferred to Grugliasco, in Piedmont, which Sergio turned into the heart of automobile innovation and technological research. There, he built a center for calculus and design and later Italy\u2019s first full-size wind tunnel, from which came cars like the Ferrari Daytona, 308 GTB, 365, 400i and Lancia Beta Montecarlo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">No longer content to \u201csimply\u201d design and produce bodies for other people\u2019s cars, Pininfarina started to build the whole vehicle, starting with the Fiat Campagnola and Alfa Romeo 33 Giardinetta.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But if for no other reason, Sergio Pininfarina will forever be revered for his Ferraris: cars like the Testarossa, GTO and F40 ordered by Enzo Ferrari himself to commemorate his company\u2019s 40th anniversary, through to the more recent 575M Maranello, the Enzo and the one-off P4\/5.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;Robert Newman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italy and the world lost one of the most accomplished stylists of all time in early July, when Sergio Pininfarina died after a long illness. 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Such was the impact of the company on Italian life that Battista\u2019s nickname was allowed to be incorporated into the family name by a special decree of the then President of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":533392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263,255,18114],"tags":[18435,18105],"class_list":["post-492590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car-culture","category-news","category-people","tag-people","tag-people-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sergio Pininfarina Dies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sergio Pininfarina Dies\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link 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