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A dozen Italian cars will appear on the lawn at Waddesdon Manor this July to celebrate the life of one of the country’s pioneers in the automobile industry. Sergio Scaglietti, who died at the age of 91 in 2011, founded the Carrozzeria Scaglietti as a design and coachbuilding company in the 1950s. His business was located a stone’s throw away from where Ferrari was based in Maranello, with Sergio Scaglietti and Enzo Ferrari forming a friendship, which saw the former modify and repair many of Ferrari’s cars. The bodywork of numerous Ferraris is based on Scaglietti’s work throughout the 1950s and 1960s, with models such as the Ferrari 312S/412 S, the Ferrari 376 S, and the Ferrari 275 being just some of the cars that were modified through Scaglietti’s craftsmanship.
There’s a picture on the wall in one of Goodwood’s briefing rooms, showing a Ferrari 250 GTO and a Zagato Aston DB4 GT in close embrace against the Madgwick banking. Both cars are significantly damaged, and not by amateurs out of their depth, but by the very best in the world, as in Jim Clark and John Surtees. It was 1962 and the Tourist Trophy; Clark had spun the Aston and Surtees – who was leading the race – had collected him. Both cars were then later clouted by Robin Benson’s errant Ferrari 250 SWB. So let’s get this out of the way early on. Today, that’s a car park with a value heading towards 100 million. Dollars or pounds, it doesn’t much matter, and, assuming you bought as seen, the cost of any repairs would be completely incidental. Perhaps less so then: Maranello already knew how to add the noughts…