Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Styling opinion

[Red5hilser (Red5hilser]

Don't tell cLyDe about this . . . it would kill him!  --   Bubba
 
 
In a message dated 2/20/2009 2:54:08 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
FList [at] hanshansen.org writes:

Oh, and  BTW, here is what was Nuccio Bertone's personal  daily
driver.

Hans.

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Hans E.  Hansen <FList [at] hanshansen.org> 
wrote:
> Bertone was a bit  scary.  They had closed a large manufacturing
> plant outside of  Torino, and their beautiful design campus in the
> base of the Alps was  a ghost town.
>
> Here is a photo looking down into their basement  where many/most/all
> of their concept cars are stored.  This is  just part of the basement,
> as my camera didn't have a wide enough  angle lens to get it all from
> this viewpoint.  We had free run of  the cars, climbing
> in and around, playing with gadgets, etc.  The  Bertone family was
> very nice.
>
> Hans.
>
> On  Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Hans E. Hansen <FList [at] hanshansen.org> 
>  
wrote:
>> Agree that all of the design houses had winners and loser -  some
>> with more than one than the other.
>>
>> A  year or so ago, I visited many of the various designers.  They  *all*
>> are on hard times.  Zagato appeared to only have one  car in process,
>> the Ferrari 575.  Their showroom had the car  under wraps and I
>> didn't get to see it ---- there.  Later I  saw it in the fab shop that had
>> been subcontracted to build  it.  I think it was at Golden Car, but
>> a few too many  Morettis may have fogged up that memory cell a bit.
>>
>>  Andrea Zagato really got the attention of the ladies.  Sort of  an
>> Italian Ferrari Bubba?
>>
>> Attached (if I  can size it correctly) is a pic of Zagato's showroom.
>>
>>  Hans.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:22 AM, LS  <lashdeep [at] yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I love  those!!
>>>
>>> The AM DB4 Zagato is pure  sex!
>>>
>>>  
http://blog.hemmings.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/61astonmartin_resized.jpg
>>>
>>>  There are winners and losers in all of the design houses. Remember that 
a  certain houses' trends may have been dictated by their chief at the time.  
Gandini was powering Bertone in the 60s and thus the shapes that came out  
reflected that. Some of their later work may not have been up to that  standard!
>>>
>>> What about Ghia and Ital  Design??
>>>
>>> The Pre L Pantera from Ghia was top  notch:
>>>
>>>  http://panteraplace.com/page5.html
>>>
>>>  LS
>>>
>>>
>>
>

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