"Noodles" (hilgyjeep)
12/30/2016 at 02:38 • Filed to: None
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"Noodles" (hilgyjeep)
12/30/2016 at 02:38 • Filed to: None | 1
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I found a strange fact.
The car was in 1972 sold to a Spanish industrialist who used it as his daily driver. Eventually, a group of labor activists planted a bomb under the Tapiro. The bomb exploded, burning the car but not destroying the chassis. !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! The burnt shell was repurchased by !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! and is now on display in its Giugiaro Museum.
This car is in fact “The Bomb”. One of my favorite Giugiaro designs.
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> Noodles
12/30/2016 at 02:51 |
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i can believe that
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Noodles
> pip bip - choose Corrour
12/30/2016 at 02:59 |
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Hahaha. That’s awesome
AuthiCooper1300
> Noodles
12/30/2016 at 08:59 |
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Not a Spanish industrialist but an expat Argentine composer and occasional conductor, Waldo de los Ríos. He enjoyed a brief (but financially very rewarding) moment of fame arranging classical pieces with a modern twist (oh, the 70s...). It seems he was so taken with the Tapiro when he saw it in a car show (maybe the Barcelona Motor Show, cannot say for sure) that he bought it from Giugiaro.
Not quite a bomb but a firebomb, if I remember correctly. I think the guilty party were employees of his.
Not much later he committed suicide after a period of depression, and that is when the whole story of the Tapiro becomes murky.
According to the late owner’s widow the car was sent to a garage which was going to start restoring it... or something. The garage closed, guy disappeared, etc. At this stage, who is the legal owner of the wreck becomes very confusing indeed; the widow has always maintained the car is still hers (but I think she threw in the sponge a long time ago). The remains go absolutely off-radar for decades.
Car ended up many, many years later in a scrapyard of sorts; was bought by an enthusiast who tried to convince Giugiaro to either restore it or to “clon” it. Negotiations came to nothing; one of the lines of reasoning of Giugiaro for not undertaking a recreation was that blueprints had been lost (or were even non-existent when the original Tapiro was built). Ultimately (after quite a few years) the car was sold to Giugiaro, who had it as an outdoor exhibit, mounted on a pole, outside ItalDesign HQ.
I ignore whether the car is still there (so owned by VAG) or was kept by the Giugiaros.
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Noodles
> AuthiCooper1300
12/30/2016 at 11:47 |
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Good info! The glass alone would cost a fortune
Nauraushaun
> Noodles
03/19/2017 at 03:39 |
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Hearing someone dailied it makes me very happy, regardless of what it came to. More concepts should get such treatment
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Noodles
> Nauraushaun
03/19/2017 at 19:02 |
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I totally agree. I bet it was awesome to see it on the street.