Ferrari sculptor Scaglietti dies

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Scaglietti,who gave his name to the Ferrari 612 Scaglietti, styled some of Ferrari's best cars.
Neil Dowling
Contributing Journalist
22 Nov 2011
2 min read

Scaglietti, who gave his name to the Ferrari 612 Scaglietti, also gave his life to the company and gave the company its life.

He styled some of Ferrari's best cars - the 250 Testa Rossa and 250 Monza - and even went outside Italy to create the Chevrolet Corvette Scaglietti Coupe of 1958.

In an official statement, Ferrari chairman Luca di Montezemolo said: ``Today is a sad day for Ferrari'' ``We lost a friend, a travel companion, a man who had his name forever connected to the Prancing Horse. 

``Sergio Scaglietti leaves behind the legacy of an artist who, with his talent, created some of the most beautiful cars of our history. ``(Those who) had the luck to know him like I did will also remember him as a straightforward and honest man, completely dedicated to his work. We will miss him.'' 

Scaglietti, who worked mainly in aluminium and preferred to sculpt a car body rather than draw it, started work in a garage in Modena at the age of 13. By age 17 he and his brother had opened a workshop opposite Ferrari's Scuderia factory. 

He worked on repairing race cars for Ferrari's clientele as well as for Enzo Ferrari. During the 1950s Enzo was so impressed with Scaglietti's work that he hired him to build a new chassis. Scaglietti soon after handled most of Ferrari's work.

Neil Dowling
Contributing Journalist
GoAutoMedia Cars have been the corner stone to Neil’s passion, beginning at pre-school age, through school but then pushed sideways while he studied accounting. It was rekindled when he started contributing to magazines including Bushdriver and then when he started a motoring section in Perth’s The Western Mail. He was then appointed as a finance writer for the evening Daily News, supplemented by writing its motoring column. He moved to The Sunday Times as finance editor and after a nine-year term, finally drove back into motoring when in 1998 he was asked to rebrand and restyle the newspaper’s motoring section, expanding it over 12 years from a two-page section to a 36-page lift-out. In 2010 he was selected to join News Ltd’s national motoring group Carsguide and covered national and international events, launches, news conferences and Car of the Year awards until November 2014 when he moved into freelancing, working for GoAuto, The West Australian, Western 4WDriver magazine, Bauer Media and as an online content writer for one of Australia’s biggest car groups. He has involved himself in all aspects including motorsport where he has competed in everything from motocross to motorkhanas and rallies including Targa West and the ARC Forest Rally. He loves all facets of the car industry, from design, manufacture, testing, marketing and even business structures and believes cars are one of the few high-volume consumables to combine a very high degree of engineering enlivened with an even higher degree of emotion from its consumers.
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