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twigworker Jack Austin Blowing Rock, NC, USA	Posted: July 04, 2012 06:27AM Registered: 7 years ago Posts: 20,742

Just saw that Sergio Pininfarina passed away yesterday in Turin, aged 85, often called the Godfather of Italian car design.

I know that it might seem a bit odd to post this on a Brit forum, but the Italians and particularly the house of Farina had and still have a huge influence on the shape of almost all automobiles, even the British ones.

Sergio's father, who started the business in the Dark Ages, gave him the Ferrari account when he was still in his twenties and the rest is history.

I am certainly in love with home grown cars, like the E-Type and the MGB, but I believe that the majority of the very best of all automobile designs came from the imaginations of Mr. Pininfarina, Nuccio Bertone, who passed away in 1997, and Giorgetto Giugiaro who is now about 74.

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-sergio-pininfarina-20120704,0,4772757.story

Jack

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Re: automobile designer - rip #2
Jim K James A. Krasnansky Liberty, KY, USA 1970 MG MGB GT "Chloe" 1971 MG MGB GT "Roscoe" 1972 MG MGB "Camilla"	Posted: July 04, 2012 07:44AM Registered: 9 years ago Posts: 7,903

Yeah, Jack - I saw that, too. Wasn't MGB designed by Italians?

Jim K is a grease-stained wretch

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Re: automobile designer - rip #3
twigworker Jack Austin Blowing Rock, NC, USA	Posted: July 04, 2012 07:59AM Registered: 7 years ago Posts: 20,742

Nope, but the hard top section of the GT was worked out by them.

Jack

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Re: automobile designer - rip #4
JohnTF John F Northeastern Ohio, USA 1970 MG MGB 1970 MG MGB	Posted: July 04, 2012 08:04AM Registered: 1 year ago Posts: 843

MGA looks to have some Italian in it?

Regards, John

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Re: automobile designer - rip #5
Jim K James A. Krasnansky Liberty, KY, USA 1970 MG MGB GT "Chloe" 1971 MG MGB GT "Roscoe" 1972 MG MGB "Camilla"	Posted: July 04, 2012 08:18AM Registered: 9 years ago Posts: 7,903

Don Hayter designed MBG - http://www.houstonmgcc.com/hayter.htm

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Re: automobile designer - rip #6
mgbmack jim mccartney georgia, USA 1963 MG 1100 1974 MG Midget 1975 MG MGB	Posted: July 04, 2012 08:41AM Registered: 4 years ago Posts: 466

THE MG 1100 was DESIGNED BY PININFARINA

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Re: automobile designer - rip #7
Jack Long Forest Hill, Maryland, USA 1974 MG MGB "Lucy"	Posted: July 04, 2012 09:20AM Registered: 7 years ago Posts: 3,891

I agree, a very influential designer although some of his work (Farina Magnette for example) hasn't aged very well.

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Re: automobile designer - rip #8
Old Number One James G Bergeijk, Netherlands	Posted: July 04, 2012 03:27PM Registered: 10 months ago Posts: 9

Very sad news, one of the legends of the design industry.

The design of the B was initially handed to Frua in 1957. At the time the brief was to design a coupe, project EX205/1.

Pininfarina did quite a few proposals for MG including ADO34 and EX234.

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Re: automobile designer - rip #9
arieck Adam Rieck San Antonio, Texas, USA 1969 MG MGB GT 1974 MG MGB GT	Posted: July 04, 2012 04:04PM Registered: 2 years ago Posts: 71

The roofline of the gt and its amazing Italian lines are what brought me into lbc's. I frankly don't really care much for the non gt versions of the mgb. I follow the designers more than the engineers and have a gugario design in the garage right next to the gt's. Hopefully, I'll be able to keep collecting these pieces of art. RIP Sergio.

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