__NOTOC__ Franco Scaglione (26 September 1916 – 19 June 1993) was an Italian automobile coachwork designer.

Biography

Franco Scaglione was born in

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to Vittorio Scaglione, a chief army doctor, and to Giovanna Fabbri, captain of the

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service. His was a well-to-do family of noble ancestry (count of Martirano San Nicola and of Mottafilocastro). At the age of 6, he and his younger brother became fatherless.
His studies were of humanistic leanings, but he entered the university of Aeronautical Engineering. His favourite hobbies were reading, tennis, riding and rowing. He went into military service with the rank of sub-lieutenant in the

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s, the Genio Pontieri. He continued his studies, but at the outbreak of the

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he volunteered to be assigned to a more destructive unit, the Genio Guastatori and was sent to the Libyan front. On Christmas Eve 1941, he was taken prisoner by the British at El Duda, a village to the south of

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. He was to be interned at the Yol detention camp in India, where he remained until the end of 1946. He returned to Italy on Boxing Day that year with the last boat used for the carrying of prisoners. He rejoined his mother (his brother Eugenio was killed during the war) in Carolei, near Cosenza, and stayed with her for almost a year.
At the beginning of 1948 he went to Bologna in search of a job; he already had it in mind to work as a stylist in the automobile field, his real passion. Initially he devoted his time to sketching clothing for fashion houses, which was very profitable, but his vocation was automobile coachwork design. On 25 September 1948 he married Maria Luisa Benvenuti and two years later, on 10 September, his daughter Giovanna was born.
In April, 1951, he moved to Turin, where there were the major

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firms, and he contacted

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, who very much appreciated his renderings. However, this did not result in collaboration, as Farina did not allow his models to be linked to the designer’s name. He met

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and finally an association was born, which led him to create automobiles such as the Alfa Romeo B.A.T.s, the Giulietta Sprint and Sprint Speciale and many others. In 1959 he concluded the exclusive relationship with the

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coachworks and worked on his own. His first collaboration as a freelancer was with

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and Porsche, and he designed the Porsche 356 B Abarth Carrera GTL, the acclaimed design forerunner of the

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. Then Scaglione conceived the Lamborghini 350 GTV, the

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, the 1900 Skyline Sprint for the Japanese Prince company (later to merge in 1966 with Nissan), the Titania Veltro GTT, and various models for

Intermeccanica Intermeccanica (formally Construzione Automobili Intermeccanica) is an automobile manufacturer, founded in Torino, Italy, in 1959 by Frank Reisner. It subsequently moved first to the United States, then to Canada, and is currently headed by F ...

such as the Apollo, Torino, Italia GFX, Italia IMX, Indra. In 1967, he designed for Alfa Romeo's

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the legendary

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, said by many to be one of the most beautiful cars ever made. Alas, Intermeccanica became bankrupt and the entrepreneur owner, Frank Reisner, moved to Canada. Franco Scaglione, having put his own savings in the production of the Indra, was disillusioned and retired from work.
In 1981 he moved to Suvereto, a little village in the province of Livorno, where he lived a very secluded life. In July, 1991, he was diagnosed with lung cancer. He died two years later.

Designs

1952

Lancia Aurelia B53 Balbo, Franco Scaglione design

Fiat 1100 The Fiat 1100 is a small family car produced from 1953 until 1969 by the Italian manufacturer Fiat. It was an all-new unibody replacement for the Fiat 1100 E, which descended from the pre-war, body-on-frame Fiat 508 C Balilla 1100. The 1100 was ...

"Utiletta Frasca" (Carrozzeria Ansaloni) * Abarth 1500 Biposto Coupé Bertone * Siata 208 CS sports racing * Siata 208 CS coupé 2+2 * Lancia Aurelia B53 Balbo (One-off)

1953

*Fiat 1100 /103 TV Savio Sport berlinetta * Alfa Romeo Berlinetta Aerodinamica Tecnica (B.A.T.) 5 *Alfa Romeo 1900L two-door saloon Bertone * Arnolt-

Aston Martin DB2/4 The Aston Martin DB2/4 is a grand tourer produced by Aston Martin from 1953 until 1957. It was available as a 2+2 hatchback saloon, drophead coupé (DHC) and 2-seat fixed-head coupé. A small number of Bertone bodied spiders were commissioned ...

sports racing Bertone (2 examples) * Arnolt-

spider Bertone *

Ferrari-Abarth 166 MM/53 The Ferrari-Abarth 166 MM/53, also called ''Smontabile Spider'', is a competition car designed in 1953 by Carlo Abarth for the driver Giulio Musitelli. Its bodywork was a design of Franco Scaglione. The car is a reworking of the Ferrari 166 MM for ...

sports racing Bertone * Arnolt-Bristol 404 X sports racing Bertone

1954

* Arnolt-Bristol 404 X spider gran turismo Bertone *Arnolt-Bristol 404 X coupé gran turismo Bertone * Siata 208 CS coupé * Alfa Romeo 2000 Sportiva racing berlinetta (prototype) Bertone * Alfa Romeo 2000 Sportiva sports racing (prototype) Bertone *

Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint The Alfa Romeo Giulietta (''Tipo 750'' and ''Tipo 101'', meaning "Type 750" and "Type 101") is a family of automobiles made by Italian car manufacturer Alfa Romeo from 1954 until 1965 which included a 2+2 coupé, four-door saloon, estate, spi ...

berlinetta Bertone * Alfa Romeo Berlinetta Aerodinamica Tecnica (B.A.T.) 7 *Fiat-

Stanguellini Automobili Stanguellini was an Italian maker of small sports cars, based in Modena and founded by Vittorio Stanguellini; it was most active between 1946 and 1960. They continued to produce competition cars until 1981, when Vittorio Stanguellini ...

1100 /103 TV berlinetta Bertone *Fiat-

1100 /103 TV 'Cheetah' spider Bertone

1955

*Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Spider prototype 002 Bertone *Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Spider prototype 004 Bertone *Alfa Romeo 1900 convertible “Perla” Bertone * Alfa Romeo Berlinetta Aerodinamica Tecnica (B.A.T.) 9

1956

Fiat-Abarth 750 The Fiat-Abarth 750 is a compact sporting series of automobiles manufactured by the Italian manufacturing firm Abarth & C. of Turin, Italy in the 1950s and 1960s. The cars used the floorpan and often the bodywork of the Fiat 600 but were fitted wit ...

Record Bertone * Fiat Abarth 215 A Coupé Bertone * Fiat Abarth 216 A Spyder Bertone *Arnolt-

convertible Bertone

1957

*Fiat-

1200 spider 'America' Bertone *

coupé Bertone * Jaguar XK150 coupé Bertone *

Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Speciale The Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Speciale (''Tipo 750 SS/101.20'', Italian for "Type 750 SS/101.20") and Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint Speciale (''Tipo 101.21''), also known as Giulietta SS and Giulia SS, are small sports cars manufactured by Alfa Romeo ...

berlinetta Bertone

1958

* Alfa Romeo-Abarth 1000 berlinetta competizione, for Bertone *

NSU Prinz The NSU Prinz (Prince) is an automobile which was produced in West Germany by the NSU Motorenwerke AG from 1958 to 1973. NSU Prinz I, II & III The first post-war NSU car, the Prinz I, was launched at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September 1957 a ...

Sport coupé (the first 1700 or so, constructed by Bertone) (Developed from Scaglione design but built in his absence): *

Sport spider Wankel (prototype 1960, produced from 1963)

1959

Maserati 3500 GT The Maserati 3500 GT (''Tipo 101'') and the Maserati 3500 GT Spyder (''Tipo 101/C'') are 2-door coupé and convertible grand tourers made by Italian car manufacturer Maserati between 1957 and 1964. It was a seminal vehicle for Maserati as the comp ...

coupé Bertone *Fiat-

O.S.C.A. O.S.C.A. (Officine Specializzate Costruzione Automobili—Fratelli Maserati S.p.A.) was an Italian manufacturer of racing and sports cars established 1947 in San Lazzaro di Savena, Bologna, by the Maserati brothers, and closed down in 1967. The ...

1500 berlinetta Bertone *Fiat 1200 “Granluce” berlinetta Bertone *

Alfa Romeo 2000 The Alfa Romeo 2000 (officially known as ''Tipo 102'', Italian for ''Type 102'') is a luxury car produced by Italian car manufacturer Alfa Romeo between 1958 and 1962, as a successor to the 1900 Super. It was replaced in 1962 by the Alfa Romeo ...

“Sole” Bertone *

4 two-door saloon prototype

1960

Porsche 356 The Porsche 356 is a sports car that was first produced by Austrian company Porsche Salzburg, Porsche Konstruktionen GesmbH (1948–1949), and then by German company Porsche, Dr. Ing. h. c. F. Porsche GmbH (1950–1965). It was Porsche's first ...

B Carrera GTL Abarth berlinetta, Carrozzeria

Rocco Motto Carrozzeria Motto was an Italian (Turin) coachbuilding company established in 1932 by Rocco Motto. The company produced bodies from Cadillacs to Delahayes. In 1946 Motto commenced building aluminium bodies for Alfa Romeo, Fiat, Cisitalia, Bandini ...

1961

*Redesign for

“Apollo” berlinetta 2+2

1962

* Maserati Tipo 64 'Supercage'

1963

Prince Motors The Prince Motor Company (Japanese language, Japanese: ) was an automobile manufacturer, automobile marque from Japan which eventually merged into Nissan in 1966. It began as the Tachikawa Aircraft Company, a manufacturer of various airplanes fo ...

'Skyline 1900 Sprint' berlinetta * Apollo GT *

Apollo Apollo, grc, Ἀπόλλωνος, Apóllōnos, label=genitive , ; , grc-dor, Ἀπέλλων, Apéllōn, ; grc, Ἀπείλων, Apeílōn, label= Arcadocypriot Greek, ; grc-aeo, Ἄπλουν, Áploun, la, Apollō, la, Apollinis, label ...

convertible * Lamborghini 350 GTV coupé prototype *

- Guzzi 'Colibrì' record runner *

1964

“Griffith” coupé (and convertible?)

1966

*Titania “Veltro GTT” *

“Torino” convertible and coupé

1967

“Italia GFX” convertible and coupé

1968

* LMX Sirex

1970

“Italia IMX” berlinetta competizione

1971

“Indra” convertible

1972

“Indra” coupé

Gallery

File:Alfa BAT.jpg, Alfa Romeo B.A.T. 5 File:1954 Alfa Romeo BAT 7 Concept Car fvl3.jpg, alt=, Alfa Romeo B.A.T. 7 File:1955 Alfa Romeo BAT 9 Concept Car fvl0.jpg, alt=, Alfa Romeo B.A.T. 9 File:Alfa Romeo Giulietta white.jpg, Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint File:Arese Museo Storico Alfa Romeo 1954 1900 Sport Spider 2.jpg, alt=, Alfa Romeo 1900 Sport Spider File:SprintSpecial.jpg, Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint Speciale File:Lamborghini 350 GTV.jpg, Lamborghini 350 GTV File:Porsche 356 Abarth blue vl TCEr.jpg, Porsche 356 B Carrera GTL Abarth File:ATS 2500-GT Front-view.JPG, ATS 2500 GT File:1972 Italia Spyder.jpg, Intermeccanica Italia convertible

References

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Scaglione, Franco 1916 births 1993 deaths Engineers from Florence Italian automobile designers Pininfarina people