Pietro Frua (1965)

Pietro Frua (May 2, 1913 - June 28, 1983) was one of the leading Italian coachbuilders and car designers during the 1950s and 1960s. Pietro Frua (ca. ... May 2 is the 122nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (123rd in leap years). ... 1913 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... This article is in need of attention. ... 1983 is an integer and composite number that represents a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A small variety of cars, the most popular kind of automobile. ... Millennia: 1st millennium - 2nd millennium - 3rd millennium Events and trends Technology United States tests the first fusion bomb. ... Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s - 1960s - 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s Years: 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 Events and trends The 1960s was a turbulent decade of change around the world. ...

Pietro Frua was the fourth son of Angela, a tailor, and Carlo Frua, an employee of Fiat in Turin, the centre of coachbuilding in northern Italy. This article is about Fiat the automobile manufacturer. ... Location Region Piedmont Province Torino Area   – Total   – Water 130 km² (50 mi²) ##.# km² (#.# mi²) #.##% Population   – Total (2002)   – Density 857,433 6,596/km² Time zone CET: UTC+1 Latitude Longitude   45°04N 7°40E (##.#######, -##.#######)1. ... This article discusses transportation vehicles. ... The Italian Republic or Italy (Italian: Repubblica Italiana or Italia) is a country in southern Europe. ...

After school he was educated as a draftsman at the Scuola Fiat. His professional career began at the age of 17 when he joined Stabilimenti Farina as a draftsman. At the age of 22, he became Director of Styling at Farina, already a leading Turin coachbuilder employing several hundred people. That was where Frua had his first contact with his pupil and lifelong friend, Giovanni Michelotti, who became his successor as Head of Styling after he started his own studio in 1937. Giovanni Michelotti (1921-1980) was one of the most prolific designers of sports cars in the 20th century. ... 1937 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...

During World War II car-styling work was scarce and Frua had to turn to designing children’s cars, electric ovens and kitchen units, as well as a monocoque scooter. An oven is an enclosed compartment for heating, baking or drying. ... Monocoque (French for single shell) or unibody is a construction technique that uses the external skin of an object to support some or most of the load on the structure. ... A modern scooter Another scooter A scooter is any of several related types of vehicle. ...

Frua planned for post-war times: in 1944 he bought a bombed-out factory, hired 15 workers (including Sergio Coggiola, who founded his own carrozzeria in 1966) and equipped himself to design and build cars. 1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Sergio Coggiola is an italian designer mainly known for his design of automobiles. ... Design as a process can take many forms depending on the object being designed and the individual or individuals participating. ... A small variety of cars, the most popular kind of automobile. ...

His first known car is a 1946 Fiat 1100 A Sport Barchetta. Maserati was one of the first clients who contracted Frua for the styling of their new 2-litre, 6-cylinder sports car, the A6G. From 1950 to 1957, Frua built 19 Spyders and seven coupés in three different design series – including those on the A6 GCS racing chassis. 1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... The Fiat 1100 was an automobile. ... A roadster is a two-seat, open car, traditionally without side windows (possibly with pluggable doortops), so that even with the lightweight convertible top raised the driver and passenger remain exposed to the elements. ... See also: Mazarati, a 1980s band. ... 1995 Buick Riviera coupe A coupe (or coupé) is a two or four_seater car with a fixed roof and two doors. ... A chassis (plural: chassis) consists of a framework which supports an inanimate object, analogous to an animals skeleton; for example in the construction of an automobile or of a firearm. ...

In 1957, Frua sold his small coachbuilding company to Carrozzeria Ghia in Turin, and Ghia director Luigi Segre appointed him head of Ghia Design. In this short period, Frua was responsible for the successful Renault Floride, which experienced well-deserved commercial success. This success led to a disagreement between Segre and Frua over the car’s “paternity”, and Frua left Ghia to start his own design studio again. 1957 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Ghia (Carrozzeria Ghia SpA) is one of the most famous Italian automobile design firms, founded in 1921 in Turin by Giacinto Ghia (lived 1887 - 1944). ... Renault S.A. is a French vehicle manufacturer producing small to upper-midsize cars, vans, buses and trucks. ...

At the same time, Pelle Petterson designed his Volvo P1800 at Ghia under the attentive eye of Frua and, not surprisingly, it is often attributed to Frua's pen. From 1957 to 1959, Frua also designed several cars for Ghia Aigle, the former Swiss subsidiary of Ghia Turin, already independent at that time. Giovanni Michelotti was his predecessor in this position. Volvo P1800 is an automobile from Volvo. ... 1957 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1959 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ...

After Ghia Aigle finished coachbuilding, a former employee, Adriano Guglielmetti, started his own business and founded Carrosserie Italsuisse in Geneva. Again Pietro Frua did the drawings and, most probably, built all the prototypes for this company. After a Corvair-like styled pontoon-Beetle in 1960, Italsuisse showed a Maserati 3500 GTI Coupé on the Italsuisse stand at the 1961 Motor Show in Geneva, together with two tasteful bodies on Studebaker chassis. In 1964 a lovely little Spyder followed with Opel Kadett mechanics. Coat of arms of the Canton of Geneva Coat of arms of the City of Geneva Geneva (French: Genève, German: Genf, Italian: Ginevra, Romansh Genevra, Spanish: Ginebra) is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zurich), located where Lake Geneva (French: Lac de Genève or Lac L... Prototypes or prototypical instances combine the most representative attributes of a category. ... The Chevrolet Corvair remains one of General Motors most unusual creations. ... 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1961 (As MAD Magazine pointed out on its first cover for the year) was the first upside-down year - i. ... Studebakers Lazy S logo designed by Raymond Loewy was used from the 1950s until 1966 Studebaker was a United States wagon and automobile manufacturer that was incorporated on February 16, 1852. ... 1964 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1974 Opel Kadett C The Opel Kadett was a compact-sized automobile from the German Opel company, which is part of General Motors’ European division, offered between 1937 and 1940, then from 1962 to 1990. ...

During the 1960s Pietro Frua was among the most prominent car designers in Italy. The “Frua line” was synonymous with the good taste of a single man. He followed each car’s practical realization to the last detail of the fully functional one-offs and prototypes, often driving them to their presentation at the motor shows in Europe. Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s - 1960s - 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s Years: 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 Events and trends The 1960s was a turbulent decade of change around the world. ... Synonyms (in ancient Greek syn συν = plus and onoma όνομα = name) are different words with similar or identical meanings. ...

In 1963, at the age of 50 and at the peak of his career, Frua designed for Glas, Germany’s smallest car-maker, the GT Coupé and Cabriolet. These were built until 1968 as the BMW GT, after BMW had bought Glas. Events January-February January 11 - The Whisky A Go-Go night club in Los Angeles, the first disco in the USA, is opened. ... 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... The BMW logo is a circle divided into quadrants of alternating white and light blue color. ...

In the same year, Maserati showed the Frua-bodied Mistral and the four-door Quattroporte which, after several one-offs, re-established Frua’s connection with this manufacturer. With these cars Maserati was positioned into a new market of luxury and powerful, understated cars. The Maserati Quattroporte is a luxury four-door sedan made by Maserati of Italy. ...

In 1965, AC showed the Frua-bodied, 7-litre, 428-hp AC 428 Spyder, which drew from the Mistral’s shape. A coupé followed in 1967. In the same year, Monteverdi in Switzerland started to build a Frua-bodied sport coupé, this time with a Chrysler engine. 1965 was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... AC Cars Group Ltd. ... 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... Monteverdi was a Swiss brand of luxury cars created in 1967 by Peter Monteverdi. ... The Chrysler Corporation is a United States-based automobile manufacturer, since 1998 merged with Daimler_Benz into DaimlerChrysler. ...

At the end of the 1960s, Frua tried in vain to prolong his success with Glas by making a dozen proposals to BMW. BMW decided to make it on their own, but Frua’s influence can be seen even today in the “angry view” of BMWs.

In 1967 the Swiss racing driver and Ferrari importer Peter Monteverdi started to build his own sports cars, with the Frua-bodied Monteverdi 375 S. Due to Frua’s limited capacities, the production of the following models went to Fissore in Turin. 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ...

In the 1970s Frua reduced the frequency of his presentations, but in the sixth decade of his life he still demonstrated his good taste and craftsmanship to the younger ones who already had taken their role in the industrial process. There was no longer a demand to build completely detailed and functional prototypes in less than ten weeks, and no more customers for special bodied one-offs. Events and trends Although in the United States and in many other Western societies the 1970s are often seen as a period of transition between the turbulent 1960s and the more conservative 1980s and 1990s, many of the trends that are associated widely with the Sixties, from the Sexual Revolution...

In 1982 Pietro Frua contracted cancer and had unsuccessful surgery in the autumn of that year. He and his long-time assistant, Gina, married shortly before he died on June 28, 1983, a few weeks after his 70th birthday. 1982 is a number and represents a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar Events January-February January 6 - William Bonin is convicted of being the freeway killer. January 8 - AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions January 11 - Mark Thatcher, son of the British... When normal cells are damaged or old they undergo apoptosis; cancer cells, however, avoid apoptosis. ... This article is in need of attention. ... 1983 is an integer and composite number that represents a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

See Also

• Car body style
• Car classification

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External link

The complete history and an extensive illustrated description of over 200 cars designed and built by Pietro Frua can be found on the Web site of the Registro Pietro Frua (http://www.pietro-frua.de.)