{"id":27677,"date":"2012-07-19T10:29:27","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T09:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=27677"},"modified":"2022-06-22T13:01:22","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T12:01:22","slug":"gandini-il-maestro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/features\/gandini-il-maestro\/","title":{"rendered":"Gandini: Il Maestro"},"content":{"rendered":"

It should probably come as no surprise that the designer of the Lamborghini Countach \u2013 the most futuristic of cars \u2013 has little time for past glories.<\/p>\n

He would rather think than talk.<\/p>\n

Marcello Gandini creator of the Lamborghini Countach, is a legend of automotive design. His career spans five decades and includes iconic work for Alfa, Fiat and Maserati – as well as the outrageously wedgie Lancia Stratos. His name is, however inexorably linked to Lamborghini and the Countach in particular.<\/p>\n

And when he does stop to look back, it\u2019s with modesty.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI do not have the habit to associate a drawing to the end result obtained,\u201d he has told press. \u201cI am not bound to the success of a particular car, rather the memory of the persons that collaborated to the project and the circumstances under which they were created\u201d.<\/p>\n

The son of a musician, composer and conductor, Gandini too was driven artistically, with conventions and practicalities less important to the young designer than the production of something\u2026different.<\/p>\n

The Countach was Gandini\u2019s follow up to the era-defining Miura, his first design for Gruppo Bertone since joining in 1965 as a replacement for Georgetto Guigario who had recently left to join Ghia. There is some controversy over the stylistic origins of the Miura, although Gandini is happy to acknowledge the influence of Guigario.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Miura was very like a Giugiaro car in some detail,\u201d Gandini says. \u201cIts lines were quite soft and it had similarities to cars he had done previously \u2013 the Maserati Ghibli, De Tomaso Mangusta and Iso Grifo. But what shows my stamp, I feel, is the effort to make the car into an integrated shape, not just a top and a bottom, as so many cars of the time had. The side-scoops, in particular, were intended to give the car a kind of global shape.\u201d<\/p>\n

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But the Countach was pure Gandini, a design that perfectly evoked what it meant to be a supercar in the 1970s and 80s. Exotic. Fast. Quirky. And ridiculously expensive.<\/p>\n

Of all the Countach\u2019s unique style points it was the futuristic scissor doors which left an indelible mark, an aesthetic that spoke to the dreamers and the speed demons, the kids with the poster on their wall. Meanwhile the engineers had their work cut out. But ultimately the Countach achieves its status for its style rather than it\u2019s performance. It\u2019s instantly recognisable, unique in many respects & epitomises the brash ethos of the supercar. All perfectly apt for a car named after an Piedmontese expression of delight, usually uttered as a beautiful women walks by, but in the case of the Countach, the response from Nuccio Bertone after first laying eyes of Gandini\u2019s original sketches.<\/p>\n

\u201cCoun-tach!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The creator of the Countach’s revolutionary design doesn’t dwell on past glories…<\/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":[1779,6],"tags":[2836,2033,951,2717,1318],"class_list":["post-27677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars","category-features","tag-gandini","tag-giugiaro","tag-italian","tag-lamborghini","tag-lamborghini-countach","manufacturers-lamborghini-2"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nGandini - Creator of the Lamborghini Countach<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Gandini creator of the Countach's revolutionary design doesn't dwell on past glories.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/features\/gandini-il-maestro\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gandini - 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