Marcello Gandini RIP

[carspath]

Marcello Gandini … a kind , patient and very generous man , who brightened , and continues to brighten , all our lives .
RIP

[Fink-Nottle]

For lots of insights and anecdotes, and a sense of what Gandini the person was like, Davide Cironi's YouTube interviews are a great resource.

[Nigel malvern]

carspath said:

Marcello Gandini … a kind , patient and very generous man , who brightened , and continues to brighten , all our lives .
RIP

Path
Do send me an email via Pistonheads
Your original owner F920OYG
Regards Nigel

[carspath]

Hi Nigel ,
Absolutely will do .
I’ve been trying to contact you for years now …I got in touch with your ex -company secretary from Malvern a few years ago but the trail then went dry .

BW , Path

[carspath]

Hi Nigel ,

Tried yesterday and again today but your PH profile is not accepting private messages …. Can you allow it to do so please ?

BW
Path

[Tripe Bypass]

Bit confused why this isn't bigger news?...

[Scrump]

Nigel malvern said:

Path
Do send me an email via Pistonheads
Your original owner F920OYG
Regards Nigel

Nigel, your report was received. You are the only one who can enable emails via your profile.

[Fessia fancier]

Quite a cool short video at the time of him going to work in his work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69zTb5-pcnA

[carspath]

Hi Nigel ,

Tried yesterday and again today but your PH profile is not accepting private messages …. Can you allow it to do so please ?

BW
Path

[staso_oz]

Tripe Bypass said:

Bit confused why this isn't bigger news?...

Likewise - would be nice to see a pistonheads 'special feature' celebrating his incredible work..... hello pistonheads team....

Gandini designs - a key factor in sparking my interest as a teen in cars, and why I still get inspired by great design (when it appears on new cars - rarely but thankfully does) and when enjoying a walk around classic car shows/gatherings

[ratrod 2]

Fessia fancier said:

Quite a cool short video at the time of him going to work in his work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69zTb5-pcnA

Brilliant , thanks for posting .

Remember seeing that ad in period , all the special to me as i use the own one of those BX's back in the day.

Amazing how young Marcello was in the ad ,especially compared to when Iain Tyrrell interviewed him a year or two

back when they drove the Italian Job's original Miura in the Italian Alpes on one of his video's.

[Hereandthere]

There is an obitiary in the Telegraph for him today

[ratrod 2]

Hereandthere said:

There is an obitiary in the Telegraph for him today

Thanks for that bit of info,

Will go and buy myself a copy ,my local newsagent will think i've gone all intellectual

[Hereandthere]

I read it online today so hopefully it is in the paper copy today as well

[Fessia fancier]

Also an obituary in the Guardian

[dontlookdown]

Fessia fancier said:

Quite a cool short video at the time of him going to work in his work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69zTb5-pcnA

Tks for that. I remember it from back in the day. A time when car ads had some intelligence.

It's quite surprising that he agreed to do the ad, given that he kept such low profile. Albeit only a couple of fairly fleeting glimpses.

I guess the fact that he avoided the limelight means that not many people know of him, hence not much fuss being made.

I agree that it's poor there hasn't been a PH article on someone who could claim to be the most influential car designer of the modern era.

[Fessia fancier]

Also an obituary in the Guardian

[ratrod 2]

Just got my Octane mag through the door yesterday,there's a nice piece on him in there as well.