![]() An elegantly proportioned design with a low hood, it is the car that usually is given credit for establishing Pinin Farina's reputation. Īt the end of 1945 the Cisitalia 202 Coupé was designed. The managers of the Grand Palais said of the display, "the devil Pinin Farina", but to the press and the public, it was the successful "Turin coachbuilder's anti-salon". Pinin Farina and his son Sergio, determined to defy the ban, drove two of their cars (an Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 S and a Lancia Aprilia cabriolet) from Turin to Paris and found a place at the entrance to the exhibition to display the two new creations. ![]() The Paris show was attended by 809,000 visitors (twice the pre-war figure), and queues stretched from the main gate all the way to the Seine. After World War II Īfter the war, Italy was banned from the 1946 Paris Motor Show. The Pinin Farina factory was destroyed by Allied bombers ending the firm's operations. The war effort against the Allies brought work making ambulances and searchlight carriages. In 1939, World War II ended automobile production, but the company had 400 employees building 150 bodies a month. This development happened in the mid-1930s when others saw the frameless construction as the end of the independent coachbuilder. With its close relationship with Lancia, the pioneer of the monocoque in automobile design, Farina became the first coachbuilder to build bodies for the new technique also known as unibody construction. ĭuring the 1930s, the company built bodies for Lancia, Alfa Romeo, Isotta Fraschini, Hispano-Suiza, Fiat, Cadillac, and Rolls-Royce. On papers were filed to become a corporation, Società anonima Carrozzeria Pinin Farina headquartered in Turin, Italy, at 107 Corso Trapani. That first year the firm employed eighteen and built 50 automobile bodies. When automobile designer and builder Battista "Pinin" Farina broke away from his brother's coachbuilding firm, Stabilimenti Farina, in 1928, he founded "Carrozzeria Pinin Farina" with financial help from his wife's family and Vincenzo Lancia. History The days as a specialist coachbuilder īattista "Pinin" Farina and his son Sergio, c. Pininfarina is registered and publicly traded on the Milan Stock Exchange, Borsa Italiana. As of 2012, with the end of series automotive production, employment has shrunk to 821. Īt its height in 2006, the Pininfarina Group employed 2,768 with subsidiary company offices throughout Europe, as well as in Morocco and the United States. After Andrea's death, his younger brother Paolo Pininfarina was appointed as CEO. Pininfarina was run by Battista's son Sergio Pininfarina until 2001, then his grandson Andrea Pininfarina until he died in 2008. ![]() Since the 1986 creation of "Pininfarina Extra", it has consulted on industrial design, interior design, architecture, and graphic design. Since the 1980s, Pininfarina has also designed high-speed trains, buses, trams, rolling stocks, automated light rail cars, people movers, yachts, airplanes, and private jets. These firms have included long-established customers such as Ferrari, Alfa Romeo, Peugeot, Fiat, GM, Lancia, and Maserati, to emerging companies in the Asian market with Chinese manufactures like AviChina, Chery, Changfeng, Brilliance, JAC and VinFast in Vietnam and Korean manufacturers Daewoo and Hyundai. Pininfarina is employed by a wide variety of automobile manufacturers to design vehicles. On 14 December 2015, the Indian multinational giant Mahindra Group acquired 76.06% of Pininfarina S.p.A. The company was founded by Battista "Pinin" Farina in 1930. (short for Carrozzeria Pininfarina) is an Italian car design firm and coachbuilder, with headquarters in Cambiano, Turin, Italy. Original early part number for the mirror was 356 70 033 replaced by 644 731 101 01 for all 3 mirrors and for both clamps, early number 357 70 303 replaced by 644 731 150 21.ĮLE 731 101 01 - mirror with early 2 hole mount,ĮLE 731 101 02 - mirror with late, 1956 to 1961, 1 hole mountĮLE 731 101 40 - mirror with round arm Speedster, Conv.Pininfarina S.p.A. When we started this project over one year ago, we noticed in the Porsche spare parts books that the same part number was used for all 3 different style mirrors, also the 2 very different holding clamps used the same part number !! Mirror size 175 x 60 mm, very nice satin dull finish to prevent reflections, fully correct mounting arms, excellent mirror glass mounted flawlessly. Also available both fully correct holding clamps. For 356 from 1952 pre A up to B T5, Coupe and Cabrio, Speedster, Convertible D and Roadster. Outstanding, perfect reproduction of the early 356 interior rear view mirror.
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