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Early Vignale and Pinin Farina Coach work

Discussion in 'Vintage (thru 365 GTC4)' started by mroz, Oct 24, 2004.

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  1. mroz

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    #1 mroz, Oct 24, 2004
    Yesterday I took a couple photo's of a 1953 Vignale 375 America which was the Paris show car next to my 1954 Pinin Farina Cabriolet that was the 1954 New York show car. The Vignale was built in late 53 and the Cabriolet was built early 54. You guys can figure the serial #'s
    I took the pictures because it is a very interesting combination of Ferraris. Close to the same period of manufacture by two different coach builders that have different styling approaches. Vignale was coming to an end of his working relation with Ferrari and Pinin Farina beginning a new partnership. It shows the decorative coach work by Vignale and the simplified refined lines of the Pinin Farina style. Both are exciting cars.
    The photos are not to good because of lighting.
     
  2. dretceterini

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    #2 dretceterini, Oct 24, 2004
    The spider is wonderful, but sorry, I prefer the coupe. It's drop dead beautiful, IMO....
     
  3. donv

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    #3 donv, Oct 24, 2004
    Both look wonderful! And incidentally, the photos are great.
     
  4. zjpj

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    #4 zjpj, Oct 24, 2004
    beautiful! Do the cars still retain these bodies?
     
  5. El Wayne

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    #5 El Wayne, Oct 24, 2004
    Zach, the photos were taken yesterday so I'd think the answer is "yes."

    Manny, very nice! Thanks for sharing those.
     
  6. zjpj

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    #6 zjpj, Oct 24, 2004
    whoops, thought they were taken in '54!

    eccellentissimo!
     
  7. Boudewijn

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    #7 Boudewijn, Oct 24, 2004
    Beautiful pics. Now they are both repainted from red.
     
  8. Bryan

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    #8 Bryan, Oct 24, 2004
    I see influence in the coupe (0301 AL) of the "design of the day"...small, but definite fins, chromed space ship-like front end. I prefer Vignale's spyders. Maybe comparing spyders to coupes is unfair, but Vignale did some coupes that I like.

    No evidence of this in the Pinin Farina. Clean lines that are more timeless and "lighter" than the Vignale.

    Thanks for sharing! Nothing wrong with the photos at all.
     
  9. Aardy

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    #9 Aardy, Oct 24, 2004
    I have never seen a picture of 0301AL at 1953 Paris show car. Does anybody have one ??
    The only Vignale coupé's pictures I have for 1953 Paris show is 0295EU.

    WONDERFUL pictures !! 0311EU is BEAUTIFUL without the previous horrible red. Same thing for 0301AL.
     
  10. mroz

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    #10 mroz, Oct 24, 2004
    Does anyone have pictures of 0311eu at the 1954 New York Show?
     
  11. Bryan

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    #11 Bryan, Oct 24, 2004
  12. El Wayne

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    #12 El Wayne, Oct 24, 2004
    Bryan, at that time, it was gray. Here's a photo of the car in dark red while owned by Greg Garrison.
     

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