The
Ferrari Museum in Maranello today inaugurated the
Great Ferraris of Sergio Pininfarina exhibition
which focuses on the years during which Sergio, the son
of founder Battista “Pinin” Farina, made a pivotal
contribution to the creation of the Prancing Horse’s
most famous models. A collaboration that started in 1952
and which represents one of the great icons of the Made
in Italy phenomenon.
Present at the opening were Ferrari chairman Luca di
Montezemolo, Paolo Pininfarina, president of the
eponymous company, Piero Ferrari and members of the
Pininfarina family including the late Sergio’s wife,
Giorgia.
The exhibition, which runs until January 7th, comprises
22 models, including one-offs of the likes of the
extraordinary Pinin, Ferrari’s only experimentation with
a four-door car, and the 330 GTC Speciale once owned by
Lilian, Princess de Rethy of Belgium. The cars in the
exhibition are split between three separate, themed
halls which tell the story of Pininfarina’s work on the
racing cars (“Pininfarina and Racing”), the road cars
(“Pininfarina and the Grand Tourers”) and some of the
experimental models bodied by the Turin coachbuilder
(“Pininfarina and the Concept Cars”). In addition to the
cars, many previously unseen exhibits from the
Pininfarina family’s private and company collections
will also be on display, not least of which is the
wooden styling buck of the Modulo concept car.
Also on display are some of the racing cars Pininfarina
penned for Ferrari: the 250 LM, Ferrari’s last overall
winner at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the 500 Mondial and
250 MM berlinettas, the classic 375 MM racer, the
spectacular BB Le Mans, the short wheelbase 250 GT
Berlinetta in which Stirling Moss won the Tourist
Trophy, and the Sigma Formula 1 prototype from 1969.
The 11 road cars in the exhibition are divided between
the front-engined berlinettas, such as the 1964 275 GTB4
and the Spider version of the legendary Daytona, the
mid-rear-engined models, notably the milestone BB, and
the contemporary creative evolution which encompasses,
amongst others, the Testarossa and the 599 SA Aperta,
the latter a homage by Ferrari to Sergio and Andrea
Pininfarina.
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