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Carrozzeria Ala D'Oro
Carrozzeria Ala d'Oro was a short-lived Italian manufacturer of automobile bodies, which became known after the end of the Second World War primarily for bodies for sports cars. The company was closely linked to the aircraft manufacturer Officine Meccaniche Reggiane (OMR). History Carrozzeria Ala d'Oro was founded in 1947. It had its origins in the aircraft manufacturer Reggiane, founded in 1901, which had built successful combat aircraft before and during World War II. After Italy's defeat in 1943, Reggiane was banned from operating in the aviation sector by the victorious powers. In order to retain the expertise and skilled personnel from aircraft construction, Reggiane founded a company for the production of automobile bodies in 1947 on the initiative of the pilot and racing driver Franco Bertani, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carrozzeria 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 and Ermini. During 1963, Motto made a body for a Franco Scaglione-designed Porsche-Abarth 356 Carrera GTL berlinetta. He also bodied a handful of Ferraris. File:1947 Cisitalia 202 MM Berlinetta (19932032014) (cropped).jpg, 1947 Cisitalia 202 MM "Cassone" Berlinetta with bodywork by Rocco Motto File:Fiat 1100 Motto (cropped).jpg, 1948 FIAT 1100 with a barchetta style body by Rocco Motto File:Paris - Retromobile 2012 - Talbot Lago T26 Grand Sport - 1950 - 001 (cropped).jpg, 1950 Talbot Lago T26 Grand Sport Barchetta designed and built by Carrozzeria Motto File:1952 Siata 300BC Barchetta Sport Spider front.jpg, 1952 SIATA 300 BC Barchetta Motto File:Cadillac - Carrozzeria Motto.jpg, 1955 Cadillac with a custom body by Carrozzeria Motto Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giannini Automobili
Giannini Automobili S.p.A. is an Italian Car tuning, tuning company and a former producer of cars. Their focus has mainly been on Fiat cars. It was founded in 1920 by brothers Attilio Giannini, Attilio and Domenico Giannini. The company headquarters are in Rome, Italy. History Origins Founded in 1885 as a garage, in 1922 Giannini became part of Itala (company), Itala's service network. Through this collaboration and the skills acquired thereby, Giannini was able to enter and win its class with an Itala Tipo 61 in the first edition of the Mille Miglia (1927), commissioned by Marquis Pellegrini. 1930s Giannini expanded their scope during the 1930s by working on smaller cars, in particular the popular Fiat 500 "Topolino". In addition to engine modifications, the brake arrangements were also changed. In 1938 Giannini broke a number of world records with a single seat racer powered by one of these 499 cc engines, equipped with a Siata head. 1940s After World War II, the Giannini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiat 500
The Fiat 500 (, ) is an Economy car, economy / city car that was manufactured and marketed by Fiat Automobiles from 1957 until 1975. It was sold as a two-door semi-convertible or saloon car and as a three-door panel van or estate car. Launched as the ''Nuova (new) 500'' in July 1957, as a successor to the Fiat 500 "Topolino", 500 "Topolino", it was an inexpensive and practical small car. Measuring long, and originally powered by a rear-engine design, rear-mounted 479 cc two-cylinder, air-cooled engine, the 500 was smaller than Fiat 600, Fiat's 600, launched two years earlier, and is considered one of the first purpose-designed city cars. In 1959, Dante Giacosa received a Compasso d'Oro industrial design prize for the Fiat 500. This marked the first time a Compasso d’Oro was awarded to an automotive manufacturer. History In 1936, Fiat released the front engine Fiat 500 "Topolino" economy car. In 1949 to meet the demands of the post-war market, production resumed as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Officine Ermini Firenze
Officine Ermini Firenze was an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Florence. History The company was founded by Pasquale Ermini in 1932, opening its first workshop in Via Campo D'Arrigo, Florence, preparing sports cars for local drivers. In 1946, Pasquale Ermini developed his first car based on the Alfa Romeo 2500SS and with it, managed to win the title of Italian vice-champion in the Sport Maggiore category. Also in 1946 he designed and built his first twin''-''cam head, to be applied to the Fiat 1100 base. In 1947 he founded the Scuderia TESS (Testa Emisfera Super Sport) with which he achieved seventh place overall at the Mille Miglia of the same year. Due to the founder's health conditions, Ermini ceased production in 1956, but continued to provide assistance to its drivers until 1962, the year in which the last workshop in Viale Matteotti finally closed. Vehicles The first model had a tubular frame chassis. The drive was provided by a Engine configuration, four-c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guerino Bertocchi
Guerino Bertocchi (October 29, 1907 – April 13, 1981) was an Italian mechanic and racing driver known for his lifelong association with Maserati. Bertocchi was born on October 29, 1907, in Budrio. His younger brother, Gino, was also a mechanic. Initially employed at the Maserati factory, Bertocchi debuted as a mechanic and co-driver alongside Alfieri Maserati in the 1926 Targa Florio. In 1947, he was promoted to the role of chief mechanic and test driver of the Maserati Formula One team, as well as testing road cars like the 5000 GT. In 1957, he ran the car that gave Juan Manuel Fangio his third and fifth world titles. Fangio came to depending on Bertocchi to test the car, to the extent of declaring that he wouldn't drive a car if Bertocchi did not test it before. Bertocchi's only Formula One entry as a driver is the 1954 Spanish Grand Prix as a reserve driver. However, all Maserati-drivers started the race and Bertocchi never entered a Formula One race again. Between 1931 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luigi Villoresi
Luigi "Gigi" Villoresi (16 May 1909 – 24 August 1997) was an Italian racing driver, who competed in Formula One from to . Villoresi contested 34 Formula One Grands Prix across seven seasons for Italian teams Ferrari, Maserati, Lancia, and Centro Sud. He achieved eight podiums and one fastest lap, finishing fifth in the and World Drivers' Championships with Ferrari. Biography Born in Milan, Lombardy, and nicknamed "Gigi", Villoresi was the older brother of race car driver Emilio Villoresi, and co-piloted with him in several races at the beginning of their careers. From a prosperous family, Villoresi could afford to buy a car and began competing in local rallies at the age of twenty-two with a Lancia Lambda and a few years later acquired a Fiat Balilla with which he and his brother Emilio competed in the Mille Miglia. In 1935, he raced in the Coppa Ciano, finishing third and went on to capture the Italian driving championship in the 1100cc sports car class. The follow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mille Miglia
The Mille Miglia (, ''Thousand Miles'') was an open-road, motorsport Endurance racing (motorsport), endurance race established in 1927 by the young Counts :it:Franco Mazzotti, Francesco Mazzotti and Aymo Maggi. It took place in Italy 24 times from 1927 to 1957 (13 times before World War II, and 11 times from 1947). Like the older Targa Florio and later the Carrera Panamericana in Mexico, the ''MM'' made grand tourers like Alfa Romeo, BMW, Ferrari, Maserati, Mercedes-Benz, and Porsche famous. The race brought out an estimated 5 million spectators. From 1953 until 1957, the Mille Miglia was also a round of the World Sports Car Championship. Since 1977, the "Mille Miglia" has been reborn as a regularity race for Classic car, classic and vintage cars. Participation is limited to cars, produced no later than 1957, which had attended (or were registered to) the original race. The route (Brescia–Rome round trip) is similar to that of the original race, maintaining the point of depa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maserati A6
Maserati A6 were a series of grand tourers, racing sports cars and single seaters made by Maserati of Italy between 1947 and 1956. They were named for Alfieri Maserati (one of the Maserati brothers, founders of Maserati) and for their straight-six engine. The 1.5-litre straight-six was named ''A6 TR'' (''Testa Riportata'' for its detachable cylinder head), and was based on the pre-war Maserati 6CM and produced . It first appeared in the A6 Sport or Tipo 6CS/46, a barchetta prototype, developed by Ernesto Maserati and Alberto Massimino. This became the A6 1500 Pinin Farina-designed two-door berlinetta, first shown at the 1947 Salon International de l'Auto in Geneva (59 made) and the spider shown at the 1948 Salone dell'automobile di Torino (2 made). A 2-litre, 120-horsepower straight-six was used in the A6 GCS two-seater, "G" denoting ''Ghisa'', cast iron block, and "CS" denoting ''Corsa Sport''. The A6G were a series of two-door coupés and spyders for street, rather than ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pininfarina
Pininfarina S.p.A. (; ; short for Pininfarina Società per Azioni) is an Italian automotive design, car design firm and coachbuilder, with headquarters in Cambiano, Turin, Italy. The company was founded by Battista "Pinin" Farina in 1930. On 14 December 2015, the Indian multinational Mahindra Group acquired 76.06% of Pininfarina S.p.A. for about €168 million. Pininfarina is employed by a wide variety of automobile manufacturers to design vehicles. These firms have included long-established customers such as Ferrari, Alfa Romeo, Peugeot, Fiat Automobiles, Fiat, General Motors, GM, Lancia, and Maserati, to emerging companies in the Asian market with Chinese manufactures like AviChina Industry & Technology, AviChina, Chery, Changfeng Automobile, Changfeng, Brilliance China Auto, Brilliance, JAC Motors, JAC and VinFast in Vietnam and Korean manufacturers Daewoo and Hyundai Motor Company, Hyundai. Since the 1980s, Pininfarina has also designed high-speed trains, buses, trams, roll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coachbuilding
A coachbuilder manufactures bodies for passenger-carrying vehicles. The trade of producing coachwork began with bodies for horse-drawn vehicles. Today it includes custom automobiles, buses, motor coaches, and railway carriages. The word "coach" was derived from the Hungarian town of Kocs. A vehicle body constructed by a coachbuilder may be called a "coachbuilt body" (British English) or "custom body" (American English), and is not to be confused with a custom car. Prior to the popularization of unibody construction in the 1960s, many independent coachbuilders built bodies on rolling chassis provided by luxury or sports car manufacturers, both for individual customers and makers themselves. Marques such as Ferrari originally outsourced all bodywork to coachbuilders such as Pininfarina and Scaglietti. Today, the coach building trade has largely shifted to making bodies for short runs of specialized commercial vehicles such as motor coaches and luxury recreational veh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
