{"id":955,"date":"2020-04-24T20:30:45","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T20:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pebblebeachconcours.net\/?p=955"},"modified":"2020-06-09T19:40:21","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T19:40:21","slug":"la-famiglia-e-il-futuro-at-zagato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pebblebeachconcours.net\/cars\/la-famiglia-e-il-futuro-at-zagato\/","title":{"rendered":"La Famiglia \u00e8 Il Futuro At Zagato"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Carrozzeria Zagato has long been one of the best-known names in the coachbuilding business. Less well known is the fact that today, Zagato is one of the very few \u2014 and by far the most important \u2014 Italian coachbuilders still owned and managed by the family that founded it.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The company\u2019s founder, Ugo Zagato, was born in 1890 in Gavello di Rovigo, in the northeast corner of Italy. After a few years spent in Germany, Zagato returned home at age 19 to work for Carrozzeria Varesina before moving to become a department head at Ing. O. Pomilio & Co. in Turin, one of the most famous airplane manufacturers of World War I. There, the young Ugo was deeply impressed by the technology involved, including the use of lightweight alloys. When he founded his own carrozzeria in Milan, in 1919, he brought with him all that he had learned, and by 1922 he created a Fiat 501 with an alloy body shaped like an airplane cockpit. The car was so special that Alfa Romeo asked him to build the bodies for its racing cars \u2014 and that relationship soon brought legendary results. Zagato bodies \u2012 especially two-seat Spiders \u2012 became synonymous with Alfa Romeo\u2019s legendary 6C and 8C sports cars of the 1920s and \u201930s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n