Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Barrett-Jackson - Pininfarina Rondine

[Hans E. Hansen (FList]

I was with a group that spent a day with Tom Tjaarda this last September.
Real interesting guy.

Hans

On 1/21/08, Ken Rentiers <rentiers [at] mac.com> wrote:
>
> On Jan 20, 2008, at 10:50 PM, Todd Walke wrote:
> >         Yeah, too much American muscle at BJ this year, but did you
> > see
> > the Pininfarina Rondine concept car that sold Saturday night?  Holy
> > smokes,
> > what a beautiful car! ...
>
>
> The designer was Tom Tjaarda, an American then working for
> Pininfarina, who also penned the Ferrari 365 Spyder California as well
> as the Ford Detomaso Pantera. He was onstage when that glorious car
> was sold. To this eye the early 60s Italian designs were and remain
> the apex of automotive aesthetics.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Here's something else to like about Ferrari, btw. He makes, what?, 14
> of the 365 California Spyders, then goes on to something else.
> Meanwhile Porsche turns out the same bodyshell for a quarter of a
> century. No wonder we are seduced by Ferraris! Imagine if all women
> looked exactly the same! There's your most effective form of birth
> control, right there.
>
> ken
>
> On Jan 20, 2008, at 10:50 PM, Todd Walke wrote:
>
> >         Yeah, too much American muscle at BJ this year, but did you
> > see
> > the Pininfarina Rondine concept car that sold Saturday night?  Holy
> > smokes,
> > what a beautiful car!  Based on a '63 Corvette chassis and
> > commissioned by
> > GM for the Paris Auto Show.  Fantastic, classic early-'60s styling
> > in a
> > very tasteful seafoam blue/green.
> >         Nobody can lay down graceful lines like the Italians:
> > Pininfarina,
> > Turin, Ghia, etc.  Too bad modern rollover regulations don't allow the
> > thin, graceful roof pillars of yesteryear.
> >         Sold for $1.6 million.  If I had some mega-big dough, I'd be
> > asking Pininfarina to duplicate the car on a modern Corvette or 612
> > chassis.  Yum!
> >         A quick Google search of "pininfarina rondine" will find
> > multiple
> > pictures of the car.  Pronounced ron-di-nay, means "swallow" in
> > Italian.
> >
> >
> > Todd
> > Seattle,WA
> > '86 GTI, Red of course. (exciting racey car)  269,000 miles
> > '87 Golf, Polar Silver. (boring work car)     642,000 miles <- Yeah,
> > baby!
> > http://www.pureluckdesign.com <-Ferrari & VW stuff
> >
> >
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