The cars of Sergio Scaglietti will be featured at the Amelia Island Concours 2020, scheduled for March 5-8 in Amelia Island, Florida. The 25th annual event will celebrate Scaglietti’s renowned cars on the 100th anniversary of his birth.<\/p>\n
Scaglietti\u2019s bodies were usually found on racing cars. Racing was Ferrari\u2019s passion during the 1950s and sixties. The most famous racer hammered to life by Scaglietti\u2019s artisans was the 1962 update of Ferrari\u2019s renowned 250 GT. At first it was named the \u201c250 GT Comp\/62 berlinetta\u201d, an ungainly yet accurate handle for the car that became known as the 250 GTO.<\/p>\n
Ferrari even gave Scaglietti its commercial identity linking it to his hometown. Early in their relationship Ferrari produced a design of a new Scaglietti insignia that would adorn every Ferrari Mondial body: a vertical rectangle, yellow background wearing a stylized \u201cS\u201d above a blue field announcing \u201cSCAGLIETTI & C. MODENA.\u201d It seemed a blood relation of Ferrari\u2019s own cavallino rampante insignia.<\/p>\n
Scaglietti never did a drawing or even a sketch, reverting to his pre-war practice of erecting a lattice of metal tubes to determine the shape over which he hammered the metal panels. The din inside Scaglietti & C. must have been earsplitting.<\/p>\n
The shapes Scaglietti created were often glamourous. Scaglietti\u2019s silhouettes gave immortal form to the Ferrari legend with the 500 Mondial, 118\/121 LM, 500 TR, 500 TRC, 625 LM, 250 TDF, 290 MM, the 315 and 335 S, 375MM, the iconic pontoon-fendered Testa Rossa — Scaglietti\u2019s favorite — and the 250 GT California during the Modena carrozzeria\u2019s opening rounds.<\/p>\n
Scaglietti often built bodies to the designs of others. He even re-bodied a trio of Corvettes for American Chevy dealer Gary Laughlin in 1959. Jim Hall and Carroll Shelby each got one.<\/p>\n
Scaglietti\u2019s relationship with Ferrari\u2019s son Dino Ferrari made him a de facto member of the Ferrari family. The bond was forged when Dino and Scaglietti fashioned headrests for a 4.5 liter V-12. Ferrari Senior was displeased with the result and told Scaglietti so in blunt language. It was originally Dino\u2019s idea but Scaglietti took the blame and removed the headrests. Son confronted father. Dino asked his father what had happened to his headrests. The headrests were restored. For the rest of the era nearly every Ferrari sports\/racer wore headrests.<\/p>\n
At the end of Ferrari\u2019s life Sergio Scaglietti became a daily presence in his routine. They would share old times and often a glass of Dom Perignon, Ferrari\u2019s preferred Champagne. On August 13, 1988 Scaglietti spent most of the night with his old friend. When his phone rang the next morning Scaglietti was told of Ferrari\u2019s passing, even before word reached second son Piero Lardi Ferrari.<\/p>\n
Ferrari honored the special relationship between Scaglietti and Ferrari — the companies and the men — in 2004. Ferrari President Luca di Montezemolo named the new Ferrari 612 2+2 after Sergio Scaglietti. A unique honor.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe had a refined sense of proportion. Scaglietti\u2019s bodies look like Ferrari\u2019s engines sound,\u201d said Bill Warner, founder and Chairman of the Amelia Island Concours d\u2019Elegance. \u201cThey\u2019re the kind of voluptuous shapes boys are trying to draw when they sketch racing cars during study hall … instead of doing their homework.\u201d<\/p>\n
[Source: Amelia Island Concours]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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