Great looking car..the Italians have that look down..I was in a junkyard the other day looking at a 53 Nash sedan that had a Pinin-Farina badge on it, best thing about that car was all the seats laid down flat into a pretty comfortable looking bed..that had to be the Italian influence, or no?
MetalShapes, you could be right about the knock-offs...what do I know. But here is a link to a large image of a '63 vette, and the wheels look very much the same, however the ones on the vette appear deeper than what's on this modified car. http://www.autoviaggiando.com/archivio/2006/01/09-bill-mitchell-e-zora-arkus-duntov/large%20di%20corvette%20sting%20ray%20del%201963.jpg Patrick McLoad
Ok, it's always historically interesting to know what were made by people... But ... Italian design is very "special"... RIP miss Vette
Yipes! I meant no disrespect, I ***ure you! I happen to like this car, but I must say that the look is still very Italian (Italian company), my mistake.
From the Tjaarda website, this one looks to be the 64 rather than the 63. The 63 shows no rear gl*** but it may have just been an update made for 64. As to the car, I think it would have to be something that would have to grow on me. It isn't a Vette because it wasn't a Vette that came through but he couldn't have screwed up the 83/84 any worse than GM did. The Italian cars look much more sleek than the 60's American muscle that was out there. I don't care for them myself but hey, I don't have to worry about having the money to buy one anyway. The one side view shown in the black and white reminds me of a Studebaker Hawk line but that Avanti back gl*** does nothing for me.
I think this was the Scaglietti bodied Corvette. As I recall, Carroll Shelby had some role in commissioning these, and three were built. It's almost exactly the same body as a Ferrari long wheelbase Berlinetta, though, and apparently Ferrari told Scaglietti that if he did any more, he wouldn't be doing Ferraris any longer. End of program. Beautiful car.
Hey, My understanding of the Scaglietti Corvette was that an American named Laughlin commissioned Scaglietti to build these with Enzo's tacit approval. He knew that when Sergio Scaglietti wasn't busy building Ferrari bodies, he had to make a living. Scaglietti was rumored to have built his bodies without ever having drawn a line, all by feel and eye. S****ey Devils C.C.
Its more like an American weight lifter in Italian school girls clothing. The original was distinct, now it looks like other Italian designs.....Go redesign a car that really needs it, like a Fiat 500
"... I don't remember the name for sure but it was an italian F word Fina, Farina, something like that..." Pinin Farina is one of the big coachbuilders in Italy and many Italian cars display the Pinin Farina badge. They also sold cars as a mfg. in the US for a few years back in the '80s after Fiat and Alfa retreated from the US market. There are number of Italian companies that stuffed American engines in Italian sheetmetal like Iso which produced the Rivolta and Griffo in the '60's with Chevy power. These cars are much rarer than Muscle Cars but usually go for far less money. <!-- / message -->
I heard that Laughlin got a huge bill for a Ferrari engine rebuild mainly because the crank was so expensive, so he decided to build his own exotic Italian car with a Chevy under the hood. The Chevy crank cost about 65 bucks.
Just watched it sold on Barrett-Jackson... I must say that seeing it in video like that made it look even better than the pics... very cool ride.
I think its heading to the http://www.blackhawkmuseum.org/ ..not sure though, kinda hard to listen to all the chat when they get wild.
Typical Pininfarina- Love at first sight. WOW. p.s; that Scaglietti 'Vette looks heaps like a Tour de France Ferrari.
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