Pietro Frua - Freelance Italian car designer
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Summary
Pietro Frua was one of the great Italian car designers. Examples of his work include the Glas 1300 GT, the Maserati Mistral, the Maserati Quattroporte, the AC 428 and the Renault Floride, among hundreds of other designs. On the thirtieth anniversary of his death - he would have been 100 years old this year - this report looks back on his career and his legacy. Over 100 photos show the most important of his designs.
This article contains the following chapters
- One of the most important Italian car body designers
- Masterpieces built in weeks
- Son of a Fiat worker and a seamstress
- Career as a draughtsman
- Scandal and a new start
- Leap into the top league
- Special bodies based on Fiat as the main source of income
- Design work for car body companies
- Sale to Ghia and second restart
- Fruitful activities for Ghia Aigle and Lugano
- Work with the German manufacturers Borgward, Glas and BMW
- The design of two important Maserati
- At the third peak
- Company takeovers as obstacles
- Little success in the age of wedge shapes
- Another electric car
- Death due to illness
- Obituary
Estimated reading time: 15min
Preview (beginning of the article)
Turin in February 1964: the small basement workshop in the backyard of Via Villa Glori no. 8 is still bustling with activity, even though it is already dark outside. In the light of the neon tubes, Pietro Frua's latest creation is taking shape under his watchful eye. The Salone di Ginevra (Geneva Motor Show) is just a few weeks away. This is not the first time the craftsmen have worked for Frua. During the day, they assembled Cinquecentos on the assembly line in Lingotto on the other side of the Po in the famous factory with the test oval on the roof. But now they are doing what the people of Turin seem to have been born to do for hundreds of years: creating shapes from sheet metal that evoke emotions. Interspersed with a portion of tagliatelle and a glass of Dolcetto from the hills of Piedmont to the south, prepared by Frua's enterprising assistant Gina, they seem to know no fatigue. What's more, they sing while they work.
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