{"id":20297,"date":"2011-05-10T13:13:11","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T12:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=20297"},"modified":"2023-01-24T14:48:50","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T14:48:50","slug":"rare-as-hens-teeth-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/rare-as-hens-teeth-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare as Hen&#8217;s Teeth #4"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Austin-Healey-Pininfarina-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20300\" title=\"Austin-Healey-Pininfarina-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Austin-Healey-Pininfarina-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Austin-Healey-Pininfarina-1.jpg 570w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Austin-Healey-Pininfarina-1-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Austin-Healey-Pininfarina-1-278x185.jpg 278w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Austin-Healey-Pininfarina-1-251x167.jpg 251w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Austin-Healey-Pininfarina-1-526x352.jpg 526w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Pio Manzini (Manzu to his friends) was Italian to his bones, part of a venerable and artistic Milanese family &#8211; but decided to persue his studies at the Hochschule in Germany&#8217;s Ulm. This technically-focussed university was perfect for his interests in material science and bending metal into pretty shapes.<\/p>\n<p>The Healey 3000 concept for <a href=\"https:\/\/pininfarina.it\/en\/\">Pininfarina<\/a> was his dissertation project: and very interesting it was too. After graduating in 1965 he was snapped up by NSU Motorworks &#8211; where he worked on various design studies and prototypes that culminated in the production of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ro80.com\/\">Ro80<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Moving on in 1968 to become adviser to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.media.stellantis.com\/uk-en\/fiat\/press\">Fiat&#8217;s Style Centre<\/a>, his first fully realised project was to be the Fiat 127, the new front-wheel drive car that was one of a handful of revolutionary &#8216;people&#8217;s cars&#8217; that arose during the period.<\/p>\n<p>The tragedy is that Manzu never saw the project completed. In a horrible irony, he died in his Fiat 500 on his way to the official presentation of the final prototype 127.<\/p>\n<p>Lost to time and circumstance, who knows what wonders Manzu would have brought to our streets&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/ado30_04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20308\" title=\"ado30_04\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/ado30_04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/ado30_04.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/ado30_04-300x142.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/ado30_04-278x132.jpg 278w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/ado30_04-526x249.jpg 526w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/ado30_04-572x271.jpg 572w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pio Manzu &#038; the Austin Healey Pininfarina<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1779,110],"tags":[2010,11],"class_list":["post-20297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars","category-blog","tag-fiat","tag-pininfarina"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - 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