by Mike –
Sergio Scaglietti died on November 20, 2011 at the age of 91. He was a great car designer and coach builder who was inextricably linked to Ferrari and was responsible for the styling of many of Ferrari’s great race cars of the 1950s and 1960s.
He also was a personal friend of Enzo Ferrari and the Ferrari family.
Here are some of his creations.
Testa Rossa
Testa Rossa Front
Testa Rossa Rear
The 1957 Testa Rossa above was sold at the Gooding auction in Monterey in August 2011 for the highest price ever paid at a public auction for any car – $16.4 million.
He did not draw his designs, he hammered the beautiful shapes into aluminum directly from his head. You know he is special when Ferrari names a car in his honor – the 612 Scaglietti.
250 GTO
275 GTB
275 GTB NART Spider
The 275 GTB was designed by Pinin Farina but crafted by Scaglietti.
Testa Rossa
Testa Rossa - Rear
750 Monza Spider
The pictures of the 1955 750 Monza Spider above and the 1957 500 TRC Spider below are compliments of RM Auctions.
500 TRC Spider
Ferrari Testa Rossa TRC
The silver 1957 Ferrari Testa Rossa TRC above is owned by Bruce Meyer. The blue 1962 GTO and the red 1959 Testa Rossa above were photographed at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles.
For more details about this exceptional man see the New York Times and Veloce Today.
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He was an artist of the first order and we shall miss him!
I agree – it is likely we will not see artists like him again. Car design and production is much different now than when Scaglietti was working.