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BMW’s Italian Designers Part 10

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By Jackie Jouret
Photos courtesy The BMW Archive

Following its near-death experience at the end of 1959, BMW announced its renaissance at the Frankfurt auto show of September 1961. The Giovanni Michelotti-designed 1500 drew huge crowds, and the all-new midsize sedan tended to overshadow the other cars on the BMW stand. That’s a shame, because two of those cars were also making their debut: a convertible version of the popular 700 microcar—another Michelotti design—and the 3200 CS coupe wearing stylish bodywork designed by a young Giorgetto Giugiaro at Bertone.

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Giugiaro Retires, Boomerang at Auction

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Unique Giugiaro masterpiece to be sold at Chantilly, France

The Maserati Boomerang concept made its debut at the 1971 Turin motor show as a static design study. However, at the 1972 Geneva motor show it was presented as a fully operational road vehicle. (Photo credit: Bonhams)

The Maserati Boomerang concept made its debut at the 1971 Turin motor show as a static design study. However, at the 1972 Geneva motor show it was presented as a fully operational road vehicle. (Photo credit: Bonhams)

Story by Gijsbert-Paul Berk

In the same week that 78 year-old Giorgetto Giugiaro sold the remaining 9.9% of his shares in the Italdesign Giugiaro SpA to the Volkswagen-Audi group, the international auction house Bonhams announced that they will auction off one of Giugiaro’s icons, the unique Maserati Boomerang concept car. This auction will be held on September 5 during the Concours d’Elegance at the Château de Chantilly, near Paris, France. The Boomerang has participated at many world-class Show events such as the Bagatelle in Paris, Villa d’Este, the Concours Italiano, and Pebble Beach. In 2005 it was sold at an auction by Christie’s for €781,250 (US$1,007,005). [Read more…] about Giugiaro Retires, Boomerang at Auction

Graham Gauld: Special-Bodied Showcars

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By Graham Gauld

Show cars fall into two categories:
A. “Let’s put this apparently mad idea up and see if anyone takes any notice.”
B. “We will call this a show car but really show the way we are thinking for the future.”

I have always had an interest in coachbuilding and design. Perhaps it was due to the first books I ever bought about cars. They were the soft cover books produced by Fawcett Publications in the USA and I treasure them to this day. I particularly liked “Sports Car Album” by John Wheelock Freeman because, with photographer Alexandre Georges, he traveled round Europe and wrote stories about the manufacturers and coachbuilders of that time. I was serving two years National Service in the Royal Air Force at that time but little was I to know I would be visiting some of those exact same factories just a few years later. So don’t be surprised if, from time to time, I write about various special-bodied show cars that appeared only to disappear again.

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