“Do you know how you bend tubes? I’ll show you now. You fill them up with sand. However, I filled the racing cars’ brass tubes, of Maserati’s and Ferrari’s, with tar. I bent them without heating them up and then, when I put them under the flam, the tar poured out like wax. I was great at bending tubes. Once, a client who I bent a tube for, even wanted me to sign it as it was so well made: where the curve was, the tube was rounder than where there was no curve!”

Watch the first part of the video Danilo Tavoni, The Panel-beater – Chapter 1