Paying a visit to the Museo Nazionale dell’Automobile di Torino, the Italian National Motor Museum in Turin, ‘Mauto’ as it is known, is a veritable treat. To do so when there is a special exhibition on one of the greatest of all Italian car designers Marcello Gandini and to meet the great man himself, doubly so.
Marcello Gandini’s birthplace is itself the birthplace of Italian motoring, Turin, where the son of an orchestra conductor was born on 26 August 1938. Upon meeting the small, dapper 80-year-old, now troubled by a bad back, it is difficult, until one starts talking to him, to realise that he has been responsible for some of the greatest automobile designs of all time – supercars and saloons, utility and sports cars, motorcycles, push bikes, trucks,…