Pininfarina Design Sketches

We've all seen the Pininfarina design sketches of the most recent Ferraris - I'm thinking about the 612, 599 and even a certain F-chatter's P 4/5.

What about seeing renderings of some older models - anybody have any to share?

I am really interested to see if anyone has a rendering of the 308GTB - I have never seen one except in a picture of two designers standing in front of a sketch on a drawing board (will scan and post when I find it).

Also, I had a pic of a BB sketch signed in the unmistakable LF signature of Fioravanti, but can't find it anymore. Have this one of the BB though:
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Never seen that picture of the BB before. Somewhat strange proportions, quite the find!
Some of the Ferrari Press Kits included art work but not prior to about 1982.
CH

 

i think some of those bb design sketches are in the book "Ferrari Design of a Legend". Dont know about THAT one.
let me check...

love those design drawing tho... i like to see how the car "grew" from concept to concept... seeing what "might have been".

GT

 

Interesting sketch of the BB !
You can also find some more designs in the Book "L'idea Ferrari" by Fabbri Editori,this Book was published for the" L'idea Ferrari "- Expo in Florence,Italy in 1990.

regards
ivo

 

Can anybody who has this book or "Ferrari Design of a Legend", as suggested by ferrariartist, confirm or list the Pininfarina sketches included in these books. Really curious to know if they include 308GTB sketch.

Thanks.

 

I did have a newspaper clipping somewhere, with the 308 sketch........I should also have the Brovarone sketch of the Dino and the Paolo Martin designed Dino Competizione.

Will try to post them soon.

 

for anyone running out and buying these, they are basically the same thing. One in softcover as the brochure, and then republished as a hardcover for Design of a Legend.

I hate it when they do that...

Here is a quick list of the Pininfarina drawings in "Ferrari Design of a Legend":
(there are others by Vignale, Ghia etc as well)
1958 Type 250GT
(2 drawings - hardtop and convertible - of 4 views each - side back front and top)
1961 "A coloured sketch for a cabriolet to be built with the classic 3-litre 12-cylinder chassis"
1961 "Another coloured sketch probably for a coupe on a 400 Superamerica chassis"
Type 410 Superamerica 2 drawings a front and side elevation
1964 Type 400 SA front elevation
1961 Type 400 SA 3/4 front rendering
1964 Type 275 GTB 3/4 front rendering (This is infact appears to be the special Rossellini car that won all the awards when it was restored in the late 90s)
1968 Type 365 GTB 4 Daytona (side elevation that looks like what would later be the "removable hardtop one-off)
1967 Type 206 GT (an odd downward angle side view seeing the roof and rear window/sailpanel treatment)
1965 Type Dino (Side elevation in colour of the yellow futuristic Dino Competizione showcar with the large wing)
1968 Prototype P6 (colour 3/4 front view)
1985 Type 328 GTS (one is misnamed because it is the GTB, but both are orange side elevation rendering with minor differences. Both look more like 308s than 328s)
1984 Testarossa (Side elevation in colour - the most well rendered (realistically) all them all.)

There are other Pininfarina studies but they are 3-dimensional models (a couple of these is what i mistakenly remembered as a drawing for the BB - sorry.)

hope that helps..

GT

 

They say that the Ferrari 430 Scuderia also was designed by PininFarina. Do you have the sketches?

 

There is a side view marker rendering (similar to the BB image above) labeled "328 GTB" but based on the front end design, it looks more like a 308. I don't have a scanner but I can scan it at work later this week if the image isn't posted by then. It's a great rendering, likely drawn by Fioravanti himself. PF should make prints of it.

-F

 

here are the 2 328 renderings - that look like 308s
and the really cool TR... must be one the final drawings because it looks REALLY close to the final version. The rendering ive seen in other books (the one by Mark Hughes for example) arent as close to the road car.

GT
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From "Ferrari Pinninfarina"
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Aldo Brovarone sketches, designer of the Superfast, and Dino

 

Very interesting! The first sketch looks far more wedge shaped than the actual car, with the cabin (and those angled parts beside the engine leading up to the roof.. how the hell are THEY called?) being nearly a parallelogramm (compare it to the Lambo Jarama!). Very 'clean', too (wheels!)

 

Check out the wheels on the first one! eww

 

Thanks Grant, those are great. So these are from "Ferrari Design of a Legend"?

The 328 sketches really do look like they would be for the 308, also because the art looks to be from the same era as the BB sketch at the top of this thread. The front spoiler is also another give-away: none on the first sketch and a very small one on the second sketch. By the time of the 328, the deep front spoiler was an option, if not standard.

If this is the case, this would be the first time I've seen a 308 sketch.

BTW, the BB sketch appears to be signed AB - Aldo Brovarone, most likely.

As for the TR, I have Auto & Design as well as Car Styling issues covering the design of the car. I will scan them as soon as I have some time. I also have sketches of the Mondial, some of which really surprised by how bad they were!

 

Here's the only picture (from a newspaper) of a 308 sketch I'd ever seen and I found the BB sketch by Fioravanti (though I was certain I had a pic without the page crease through it!).

Note the crease through the rear fender on the BB sketch which didn't make it to production, but reappeared on the 308, trailing off the side scoop.
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Fascinating topic! Check out these design articles:

360:
http://www.cadinfo.net/editorial/ferrari3601.htm

Enzo:
http://www.carbodydesign.com/production-cars/2003-enzo/2003-enzo.php
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288 GTO
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Very interesting - they seem to be more graphics studies than style studies (only one seems to show the rear quarter window as a scoop).

Where did you find those?

 

Very nice. I already saved those when you posted them in the Dino thread!

From the drawings posted here it looks like Brovarone was the one adding the final touches on the BB and 308. I also have a drawing showing the TR closest to final design and it's signed AB - will scan later.

 

f50

hung at Ferrari of Ontario... hard to get a good shot due to reflections....

GT
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Fioravanti and team never made a design study, they just started working on a stretched 308 chassis, this info and the sketches I have from the book about the GTO by Llewandowski.

 

That looks to be signed Pininfarina. Is that Sergio Pininfarina? I seem to remember reading about some of his arrt work, don't think it's a design sketch, though.

 

Grant,

Can you retake the 2 328 (308?) shots square to the page - would like to keep those as reference.

Since those look like AB (Brovarone) signed sketches like the first BB, here's one more signed AB, for the TR. Also a couple of BB sketches in keeping with the Fioravanti sketch:
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sorry for the delay...

i uploaded some high res shots of those 3 to a new blog. Book is kinda thick so there is still some wavyness to them but i did my best:
http://ferrariart.blogspot.com/

GT