Fiandri e Malagoli

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Fiandri e Malagoli
Officina Fiandri
legal form Corporation (Srl)
founding 1950
Seat Modena , Italy
management Celestino Fiandri
Duilio Malagoli
Branch Body construction ,
metal processing

Fiandri e Malagoli (later also: Officina Fiandri ) is a metalworking company from the Italian city ​​of Modena that manufactured automobile bodies in the 1950s . In this role, the company worked almost exclusively for the sports and racing car manufacturer Maserati . The Maseratis from Fiandri e Malagoli are now sought-after rarities, reaching prices in the seven-digit range. Since retiring from the automotive sector, Fiandri has been producing garbage containers and street furniture, among other things .

Company history

The company was founded by Celestino Fiandri and Duilio Malagoli. Both had worked in the early post-war period at Carrozzeria Fantuzzi , a small body shop owned by Medardo Fantuzzi , which was based in the Maserati factory and manufactured sports car bodies there. One source describes Celestino Fiandri as Medardo Fantuzzi's assistant. In 1950 Fiandri and Malagoni set up their own business in Modena, which initially operated as Fiandri e Malagoli. In the early years, Fiandri e Malagolis employees included Fernando Baccarini, who founded a rival company in 1957 with Carrozzeria Gransport .

Until 1959 Fiandri e Malagoli worked almost exclusively as a supplier for Maserati's sports car program. When Maserati ended its factory motorsport involvement for economic reasons at the end of 1958, Fiandri e Malagoni's central business division broke away. The company then withdrew completely from the automotive sector and realigned itself. Since 1963, the now firmierende as Officia Fiandri farm produces dumpster and trash including matching transport equipment and street furniture such as benches and lamps made of metal. Fiandri is still active in this area in the 21st century.

Fiandri e Malagoli and Maserati

Fiandri e Malagoli was closely associated with Maserati for the first ten years after it was founded. At the time, Maserati only produced the engines for its racing and street sports cars itself; the construction of most of the other components, including frames and bodies, on the other hand, was outsourced to numerous small specialist companies. Fiandri e Malagoli built various mechanical parts for Maserati's racing cars, but at times also bodies made of aluminum sheets. The construction of full bodies probably falls between 1953 and the summer of 1957.

A6GCS / 53

Maserati A6GCS / 53 Corsa (No. 2087) with Spider body from Fiandri e Malagoli

The first work in the body area included superstructures for the Maserati A6GCS racing car , which, after four years of production, was presented in 1953 in a further developed version, sometimes referred to as the A6GCS / 53. The competition versions of the A6GCS / 53 received a two-seater Spider body, the shape of which was designed by Maserati's chief engineer Gioacchino Colombo . The majority of these Spider superstructures were made at Fantuzzi; However, individual chassis were also equipped with bodies from Fiandri e Malagoli, the shape of which largely corresponded to that of the Fantuzzi versions in terms of style. How many of the total of 52 Spiders received a body from Fiandri e Malagoli is not clear. One source speaks of a "small number", another thinks that Fiandri e Malagoli produced the A6GCS bodies "in the early days" before Fantuzzi took over production completely. At least the chassis numbers 2062, 2078 and 2087 can be assigned without a doubt to Fiandri e Malagoli.

The A6GSC / 53 are high-priced classics. As early as 2011, prices of around € 2 million were reached for private sales in Europe. The Fiandri-e-Malagoli car with chassis number 2087 was auctioned in France for € 2.4 million (US $ 2.9 million) in 2018; a year later, the purchase price claim for the 2078 in the USA was $ 3.2 million.

150S

Maserati 150S

In 1955, Maserati introduced the 150S , which virtually replaced the A6GSC / 53. It used a revised version of the A6GSC / 53 chassis with a rear De-Dion axle , but had a newly developed 1.5 liter engine. All 150S were bodied as a two-seater Spider. The structure was a design by Celestino Fiandris, which was based on the body of the larger 300S designed by Medardo Fantuzzi . One source describes the 150S as a scaled down version of the 300S. A total of 23 or 25 copies of the 150S were made. Fiandri e Malagoli produced the superstructures without exception. The last 150S left the factory in 1957.

200S

In addition to the 150S, Maserati also brought out the 200S in 1955 , a model very similar to the 150S with an engine enlarged to 2.0 liters. Fiandri e Malagoli built the prototype of the 200S and then the first four production vehicles, which were completed by the summer of 1956. All other 200S, beginning with the fifth production vehicle, had bodies from Fantuzzi, which, according to observers, were “slimmer” than the early 200S from Fiandri e Malagoli.

literature

  • Martin Buckley: Maserati. Italian luxury and flair . Heel Verlag, Königswinter 2012. ISBN 978-3-86852-633-2 .
  • Gianni Cancellieri: Maserati. All the cars. Giorgio Nada Editore, Vimodrone 2015, ISBN 978-88-7911-609-1
  • Hans-Karl Lange: Maserati. The other Italian sports car. Zsolnay, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-552-05102-3 .
  • Adolfo Orsi: La partenogenesi delle carrozzerie modenesi. In: Associazione italiana per la storia dell'Automobile (ed.): Velocità e bellezza: la doppia sfida dei progettisti. (= AISA monograph Volume 101). AISA, Milan 2013, pp. 6-18 digitized
  • Anthony Pritchard: Maserati. The history of racing , Delius Klasing, Bielefeld, 1st edition 2003, ISBN 978-3-7688-2513-9
  • Alessandro Sannia: Enciclopedia dei carrozzieri italiani , Società Editrice Il Cammello, 2017, ISBN 978-8896796412
  • David Sparrow, Iain Ayre: Maserati Heritage . Osprey Classic Marques. Auckland 1995. ISBN 1-85532-441-5 .

Web links

Commons : Fiandri e Malagoli  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Alessandro Sannia: Enciclopedia dei carrozzieri italiani , Società Editrice Il Cammello, 2017, ISBN 978-8896796412 , p. 222.
  2. ↑ Alessandro Sannia: Enciclopedia dei carrozzieri italiani , Società Editrice Il Cammello, Torino, 2017, ISBN 978-8896796412 , p. 212.
  3. ↑ a b c Walter Bäumer: Baby blue with a long nose (history of the Maserati A6GCS with chassis number 2062), Der Dreizack No. 42 (1/2012), p. 42.
  4. ↑ Mike Lawrence: Grand Prix Cars 1945-1965 , Motor Racing Publications 1998, ISBN 1899870393 , p. 213.
  5. ^ A b Gianni Cancellieri: Maserati. All the cars . Giorgio Nada Editore, Vimodrone 2015, ISBN 978-88-7911-609-1 , p. 103.
  6. ↑ a b N.N .: Maserati A6GCS - 2078: Who am I? www.radical-mag.com, August 10, 2019, accessed on March 26, 2021 .
  7. ↑ note of the auction house Artcurial for the auction by February 9, 2018 (accessed on 26 March 2021).
  8. ↑ Der Dreizack No. 42 (1/2012), p. 6.
  9. ^ A b Gianni Cancellieri: Maserati. All the cars . Giorgio Nada Editore, Vimodrone 2015, ISBN 978-88-7911-609-1 , p. 127.
  10. ^ Anthony Pritchard: Maserati. The history of racing , Delius Klasing, Bielefeld, 1st edition 2003, ISBN 978-3-7688-2513-9 , p. 139.
  11. ↑ The Maserati 150S with the chassis number 1675 on the website www.barchetta.cc (accessed on March 26, 2021).
  12. ↑ Overview of the Maserati 200 models on www.barchetta.cc (accessed on March 25, 2021).
  13. ^ Anthony Pritchard: Maserati. The history of racing , Delius Klasing, Bielefeld, 1st edition 2003, ISBN 978-3-7688-2513-9 , p. 140.