Stefan Dierkes schrieb:
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Cari amici di Pietro Frua,
today we commemorate the 25th anniversary of the death of the great car designer and coachbuilder Pietro Frua, who died on 28th June 1983.
Pietro Frua worked as a freelancer most of his life and was one of the most important car designers of the "Scuola italiana". With his death the world lost one of the perhaps "last Romantics among the italian coachbuilders"
(Max Stoop 1987). He designed his automobile works of art in his small studio in Torino in northern Italy and built them himself as fully functional prototypes.
Frua designed and built prototypes and production cars on the mechanics of nearly all major car manufacturers including A.C., Alfa Romeo, BMW, D.B./Panhard, Fiat, Ford, Glas, Jaguar, Lancia, Maserati, MG, Lamborghini, Opel, Peugeot, Renault, Rolls Royce, Volkswagen and Volvo.
His most successful designs (in terms of production figures) were:
1958 Renault Floride + Caravelle: 117.113
1963 Glas 1700 Limousine, BMW 1800/2000/1804/2004 SA: 13.789 + ca. 20.000
1963 Glas 1300/1700 GT Coupé + Cabriolet, 1967 BMW 1600 GT Coupé + Cabriolet: 5.013 + 363, 1.255 + 2
1963 Maserati Mistral Coupé, 1964 Spider: 828 + 120
1963 Maserati Quattroporte I: 776
1965 Glas 2600 V8, 1967 BMW Glas 3000 V8: 300 + 418
1976 Maserati Kyalami: 200
1967 + 1965 AC 428 Fastbackcoupé + Spider: 50 + 29
His contributions to car styling were significant, yet he never received the public acclaim he rightly deserved; his quiet and unassuming nature most likely contributed to this. He lives on in his more than 200 creations which are documented on the website of the Registro Pietro Frua: www.pietro-frua.de.
Since the last Pietro Frua Newsletter numerous additions and corrections to the website have been made. The major additions were:
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1950 Cisitalia 202 Spider
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www.pietro-frua.de/1950_cisitalia.htm
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1950 Maserati A6G 2000 Spider
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Discovered in California in the ownership of the waitress "Dee Dee" in 1998, the restored car s/n 2017 has been presented at the Concors d'Eleganza Villa d'Este 2006. See 156 photos at
www.pietro-frua.de/1950_maserati.htm#2017
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1969-1970 BMW 2002 GT4 Coupé
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www.pietro-frua.de/1969_bmw2002.htm
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1979 Amectran Exar-1
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Frua's electric coupé has been discovered and changed ownership several times in the USA:
www.pietro-frua.de/1979_amectran.htm
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Sources: Motor Shows
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Geneva: www.pietro-frua.de/genf.htm - posters added
Bruxelles: www.pietro-frua.de/bruxelles.htm
Registro Pietro Frua
Stefan Dierkes
Eichendorffstr. 57
71665 Vaihingen an der Enz
Germany
Phone/Fax +49 174 3178115
E-Mail info@pietro-frua.de
www.pietro-frua.de
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