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Originally Posted by yuragagarin1961
I visited Zagato mid August 2004 and saw a Murciélago body just in the same fashion, naked to the body and possibly waiting for re-spraying...
I was not allowed to take as many pictures as I would have liked, but in the showroom there I could finally admire a fully finisthed and gorgeous orange example of Lamborghini Canto. Those who hate it should see it in in the flesh, and then they might kindly close their big mouths for a full year.
A few meters away, under a silken blue cover, there was a very flat and wide roadster thing with a very distinct horse-shoe shaped nose.... I suggested "... a special Bugatti for a customer?" An uncertain smile came as an answer. I am pretty sure it was a rebodied EB110...
Marcel, remember the Pregunta!!! It came in 1998. Still, Heuliez wasn't one of the coachbuilders to be commissioned by Audi to bring a proposal to rebody the Canto before selecting Donkerwolke's proposal, as was Bertone, or Zagato, once again...
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You are very fortunate !
I also like the Canto and if I had known that Zagato had retained a finished
version I would have defiitely made a point to see it last summer when I
was in Italy. I expect/hope they still have it. I love the Murcielago, and
Luc's genius. But I also love the Canto. I have been hoping that we might
have a few that get built.
Also, right next to Christina's desk at the Lamborghini Museum, is a wonderful
Lamborghini V12 development poster, showing the different V12 supercars
that have been designed (not all built). The Gandini Super Diablo and
other never built Gandini Diablo variants are depicted as well. I tried to buy
that poster but it wasn't in the store for sale. I shot video of the poster
once I realized I couldn't buy it, to at least have some record of the
designs on it, and I noticed while watching it on my TV that Christina was
attributed at the bottom of the poster as having helped develop it. I need
to contact her and ask if it is available. But some of the designs there are
interesting as well.
And then there is just commissioning a new design from one of those great
houses!
Again not to slight Centro Stile ! One should approach them as well, but I
expect that they have their hands full giving us the great designs they
have been giving us. But maybe not. Maybe they also want to do custom
work! They could grow their staff for that. I don't know if that's possible.
During the LP640 coming out at Geneva, ITALIASPEED had very interesting
photos of Luc giving Ken Okuyama (Pininfarina Creative Director and
Ferrari Enzo designer) and Jason Castriota (Maserati 75th Anniv Birdcage and
Ferrari 599GTB designer) a detailed tour of both the LP640 and the Miura
Concept. They seemed to be quite interested. I would have loved to drop
in on that one! I have some interesting theories, but I'd probably get
myself in trouble.