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Photos Pininfarina 1 Bob DeKorne/Hagerty Tuner Cars Part II Pininfarina Hyperion Sabu Advani (AZ) 2 making its debut at the Gooding & Company auction tent 1 at Pebble Beach and, later, on display on the Concept Car Lawn 2 , Pininfarina’s latest creation received an excellent reaction from the crowd. In the autumn of 2007 British car collector Roland Hall commissioned the Italian design house to create a one-off vehicle based on the Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupé, emulating the look of a 1930s sporting car. The typical long hood of that era and the necessarily short tail and aft-placed cockpit were achieved by deleting the stock car’s rear seats. This allowed the driving position to be moved backwards by 400 mm. The soft top folds behind the seats under a wood-lined cover. The carbon fiber bodywork encapsulates the two seats snugly and to compensate for the diminished storage space, two compartments were created in front of the windscreen to house small items or sports equipment, such as the owner’s two hunting rifles. The interior has remained largely unchanged and there are no significant mechanical changes. Roland Hall dedicated the car to the memory of the company’s late chairman and CEO, Andrea Pininfarina, who was killed in a road accident this August. Neither Pininfarina nor the owner are disclosing the price. Hall is himself keenly aware of the fact that the days for such highly bespoke cars may well be numbered. Even prior to Andrea Pininfarina’s untimely death the firm had only recently managed to get support for its turnaround plan to bring the company back to profitability. An agreement with its creditors to reschedule the company’s debt will now commit an extra 100 million Euros from shareholders towards future product development. Pininfarina is also intent on designing and building their own electric car, using batteries and technology supplied by the French Bolloré Group. ©The ©The Rolls-Royce Rolls-Royce Owners Owners Club, Club, Inc. Inc. 9074 THE FLYING LADY November / December 2008 [ search engine powered by magazooms.com - empowered by alQemy.com ]
When you see the car surrounded by people you get a better sense of scale. Note how tall the car is—the hood is at elbow height—and extrapolate from that its length and width. (l–r) Roland Hall (owner), Jason Castriota (Art Center College of Design graduate and now Pininfarina Chief Designer), Lowie Vermeersch (Pininfarina Design Director), Paolo Garella (Pininfarina “Progetti Speciali” [Special Projects] Manager). In the drawing the rear quarter panel has a much more pronounced rise behind the seat backs/rear wheel well, the wooden rear deck extends much farther back, the relationship of windshield base to front door is different, and the rear lights are not pulled down. And the car has no door mirrors. Observe how the crease on the body sweeps from the front to the rear and is picked up behind the rear wheel arch. Seen by itself, the car’s proportions give no indication as to its size: is it as big as a Miata or a city bus The 128˝ wheelbase is only 12˝ shorter than that of the Phantom. Vendors: Re Fraschini: carbon Isoclima: glazed surfaces Proxi Design: drawings Triom: lights and headlights Fondmetal: wheel rims Materialise: fast prototyping SIGMA Navale Italiana: teak finish ©The ©The Rolls-Royce Rolls-Royce Owners Owners Club, Club, Inc. Inc. November / December 2008 THE FLYING LADY 9075 [ search engine powered by magazooms.com - empowered by alQemy.com ]
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