Carrozzeria Sargiotto

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Carrozzeria Giorgio Sargiotto e C.
legal form
founding 1962
resolution 1965
Seat Nichelino , Italy
Branch Body shop

The Carrozzeria Sargiotto was a short-lived Italian manufacturer of automobile bodies , which was primarily concerned with the design and construction of prototypes.

Company history

The Carrozzeria Sargiotto was founded by the Italian coachbuilder Giorgio Sargiotto. Sargiotto had from 1946 to 1961 in Turin he had founded bodybuilder Monterosa passed in the 1960s in different Fiat - and Lancia converted models in small batches to station wagons and coupes and 1960, a single copy of the high-performance sports car Maserati 5000 GT with an individual body. After Monterosa had to cease operations due to bankruptcy in 1961, Giorgio Sargiotto went to Japan for about a year, where he worked as a design consultant.

In 1962 Sargiotto returned to Italy and founded a new coachwork company in the Piedmontese town of Nichelino . Some sources report that Italian designer Franco Scaglione was a partner in the company. According to Ferruccio Lamborghini's portrayal, the Carrozzeria Sargiotto was a very small, poorly organized workshop; in retrospect he called it “a rickety hut that was barely three by four meters.” The company received only a few orders. It ceased operations after just three years.

Sargiotto's work

Apollo GT

Apollo 5000 GT

Sargiotto's first project was the collaboration on the hybrid sports car Apollo GT , which was developed from 1960 by the American engineer and designer Milt Brown. The body design, which combined elements of the Ferrari 250 GT Spyder California with those of the Jaguar E-Type , went back in its basic features to Ron Plesca , but Franco Scaglione revised the design in detail. Sargiotto made at least one, probably two prototypes of the Apollo GT in 1962. Sargiotto did not receive the order for series production. The bodies of the series models were made at Intermeccanica in Turin from 1962 ; the completion, including the installation of the engine and all technical components, took place at Carbondio in Turin.

Lamborghini 350 GTV

Lamborghini 350 GTV

The Lamborghini 350 GTV was the prototype of the first sports car from Automobili Lamborghini SpA . It had an engine designed by Giotto Bizzarrini and a body designed by Franco Scaglione. Because Lamborghini's plant in Sant'Agata Bolognese was not yet operational in the late summer of 1963, Lamborghini had individual components for the prototype manufactured in different plants. Neri e Bonacini designed and built the chassis . Through Franco Scaglione, he had the body structure, including the outer panels, manufactured by Sargiotto. All individual parts including the chassis and engine - or a dummy engine - were assembled here. According to reports in the specialist press, the level of craftsmanship was poor; Sargiotto "hastily fudged the vehicle." The series production of the car, which was brought onto the market as the Lamborghini 350 GT after extensive revisions , was carried out by Carrozzeria Touring in Milan .

Other Projects

Apart from the prototypes for Apollo and Lamborghini, Sargiotto only produced a few special vehicles, most of which remained unique. They included a camera car based on the Fiat 1500 , the roof of which could be opened and which could be fitted with a television camera. The car was commissioned by the RAI television station .

literature

Alessandro Sannia: Enciclopedia dei carrozzieri italiani , Società Editrice Il Cammello, Torino, 2017, ISBN 978-8896796412

Web links

Commons : Carrozzeria Sargiotto  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Braun, Alexander Franc Storz: Typenkompass Lamborghini: Sports car after 1964. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3613026452 , p. 9.
  2. ↑ Quoted from Hans-Karl Lange: Lamborghini. All sports cars since 1963. Verlagsunion Pabel - Moewig, Rastatt 1991, ISBN 3-8118-3063-5 .
  3. ↑ a b c Alessandro Sannia: Enciclopedia dei carrozzieri italiani , Aesthetica 2017, ISBN 978-8896796412 , p. 492.
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Blaube : Green Star. 50 years of Lamborghini. Presentation of the 350 GTV in: Oldtimer Markt, issue 7/2013, p. 246 ff.