{"id":11604,"date":"2019-01-09T06:30:37","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T05:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.internationalclassic.com\/oscar-sergio-scaglietti\/"},"modified":"2019-02-05T10:56:19","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T09:56:19","slug":"oscar-sergio-scaglietti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/en\/oscar-sergio-scaglietti\/","title":{"rendered":"Scaglietti: &#8220;I want to make a car&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h3>The Roots<\/h3>\n<p>The house is high up there, on the peak, in Castelvetro di Modena. The mounds of soil tell lots of tales, the earth \u201cknows\u201d. Here, the countryside has soft and welcoming curves, just like a \u201c<em>zdora<\/em>\u201d, the proverbial Emilian housewife. They fought here, back in the Etruscan times, and there was a stronghold: it isn\u2019t surprising that, centuries later, history presented its bill and the land started erupting old tombs.[\/vc_column_text]<style type=\"text\/css\" data-type=\"the7_shortcodes-inline-css\">.carousel-shortcode.carousel-shortcode-id-9a9c67b4170787ac47da613fcd5382ac.owl-carousel .owl-nav div {\n  width: 40px;\n  height: 40px;\n  border-radius: 500px;\n}\n.dt-arrow-border-on.carousel-shortcode.carousel-shortcode-id-9a9c67b4170787ac47da613fcd5382ac.owl-carousel .owl-nav div:not(:hover):before {\n  border-width: 0px;\n}\n.dt-arrow-hover-border-on.carousel-shortcode.carousel-shortcode-id-9a9c67b4170787ac47da613fcd5382ac.owl-carousel .owl-nav div:hover:after {\n  border-width: 0px;\n}\n.carousel-shortcode.carousel-shortcode-id-9a9c67b4170787ac47da613fcd5382ac.owl-carousel .owl-nav div.owl-prev {\n  top: 50%;\n  transform: translateY(calc(-50% + 0px));\n  left: -43px;\n}\n@media all and (-ms-high-contrast: none) {\n  .carousel-shortcode.carousel-shortcode-id-9a9c67b4170787ac47da613fcd5382ac.owl-carousel .owl-nav div.owl-prev {\n    transform: translateY(-50%);\n    margin-top: 0px;\n  }\n}\n.carousel-shortcode.carousel-shortcode-id-9a9c67b4170787ac47da613fcd5382ac.owl-carousel .owl-nav div.owl-prev i {\n  padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n.carousel-shortcode.carousel-shortcode-id-9a9c67b4170787ac47da613fcd5382ac.owl-carousel .owl-nav div.owl-next {\n  top: 50%;\n  transform: translateY(calc(-50% + 0px));\n  right: -43px;\n}\n@media all and (-ms-high-contrast: none) {\n  .carousel-shortcode.carousel-shortcode-id-9a9c67b4170787ac47da613fcd5382ac.owl-carousel .owl-nav div.owl-next {\n    transform: translateY(-50%);\n    margin-top: 0px;\n  }\n}\n.carousel-shortcode.carousel-shortcode-id-9a9c67b4170787ac47da613fcd5382ac.owl-carousel .owl-nav div.owl-next i {\n  padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n.carousel-shortcode.carousel-shortcode-id-9a9c67b4170787ac47da613fcd5382ac.owl-carousel .owl-nav i {\n  font-size: 18px;\n}\n.carousel-shortcode.carousel-shortcode-id-9a9c67b4170787ac47da613fcd5382ac.owl-carousel .owl-nav div:not(:hover) i,\n.carousel-shortcode.carousel-shortcode-id-9a9c67b4170787ac47da613fcd5382ac.owl-carousel .owl-nav div:not(:hover) i:before {\n  color: #ffffff;\n  background: none;\n}\n.carousel-shortcode.carousel-shortcode-id-9a9c67b4170787ac47da613fcd5382ac.owl-carousel .owl-nav div:hover i,\n.carousel-shortcode.carousel-shortcode-id-9a9c67b4170787ac47da613fcd5382ac.owl-carousel .owl-nav div:hover i:before {\n  color: rgba(255,255,255,0.75);\n  background: none;\n}\n.carousel-shortcode.carousel-shortcode-id-9a9c67b4170787ac47da613fcd5382ac .owl-dots {\n  top: calc(100% + 20px);\n  left: 50%;\n  transform: translateX(calc(-50% + 0px));\n}\n@media all and (-ms-high-contrast: none) {\n  .carousel-shortcode.carousel-shortcode-id-9a9c67b4170787ac47da613fcd5382ac .owl-dots {\n    transform: translateX(-50%);\n    margin-left: 0px;\n  }\n}\n.carousel-shortcode.carousel-shortcode-id-9a9c67b4170787ac47da613fcd5382ac .owl-dot {\n  width: 10px;\n  height: 10px;\n  margin: 0 8px;\n}\n@media screen and (max-width: 778px) {\n  .carousel-shortcode.carousel-shortcode-id-9a9c67b4170787ac47da613fcd5382ac.hide-arrows .owl-nav a {\n    display: none;\n  }\n}\n@media screen and (max-width: 778px) {\n  .carousel-shortcode.carousel-shortcode-id-9a9c67b4170787ac47da613fcd5382ac.reposition-arrows .owl-nav .owl-prev {\n    top: 50%;\n    transform: translateY(calc(-50% + 0px));\n    left: 10px;\n  }\n  .carousel-shortcode.carousel-shortcode-id-9a9c67b4170787ac47da613fcd5382ac.reposition-arrows .owl-nav .owl-next {\n    top: 50%;\n    transform: translateY(calc(-50% + 0px));\n    right: 10px;\n  }\n}\n@media screen and (max-width: 778px) and all and (-ms-high-contrast: none) {\n  .carousel-shortcode.carousel-shortcode-id-9a9c67b4170787ac47da613fcd5382ac.reposition-arrows .owl-nav .owl-prev {\n    transform: translateY(-50%);\n    margin-top: 0px;\n  }\n}\n@media screen and (max-width: 778px) and all and (-ms-high-contrast: none) {\n  .carousel-shortcode.carousel-shortcode-id-9a9c67b4170787ac47da613fcd5382ac.reposition-arrows .owl-nav .owl-next {\n    transform: translateY(-50%);\n    margin-top: 0px;\n  }\n}\n<\/style><div class=\"owl-carousel carousel-shortcode dt-owl-carousel-call carousel-shortcode-id-9a9c67b4170787ac47da613fcd5382ac bullets-small-dot-stroke reposition-arrows arrows-bg-off dt-arrow-border-on dt-arrow-hover-border-on disable-arrows-hover-bg arrows-hover-bg-off  \" data-scroll-mode=\"1\" data-col-num=\"1\" data-wide-col-num=\"4\" data-laptop-col=\"1\" data-h-tablet-columns-num=\"1\" data-v-tablet-columns-num=\"1\" data-phone-columns-num=\"1\" data-auto-height=\"true\" data-col-gap=\"30\" data-stage-padding=\"0\" data-speed=\"600\" data-autoplay=\"false\" data-autoplay_speed=\"6000\" data-arrows=\"true\" data-bullet=\"false\" data-next-icon=\"icon-ar-017-r\" data-prev-icon=\"icon-ar-017-l\">[vc_single_image image=&#8221;11508&#8243; 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My father bought the house in the \u201960s. We lived here from March till December, there was enough room here, for everybody. Here I had my young children skiing and sledging, and here they became fond of skiing. Can you see down there? Yes, it\u2019s a little hazy today, but when it\u2019s clear, I can see the Alps, Mount Baldo and the Euganean Hills from here. And then the Apennines, the mountains above Sassuolo\u201d. Oscar Scaglietti talks with endless love about the land &#8211;\u00a0<em>his<\/em> land &#8211;\u00a0 and the reason why is clear. In his tale, you breathe a dialectic made of confines and horizons. 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They always got on well, you know? My mother never complained, even if we always had people for lunch and dinner. For us, work has always been group work and she was one of the group because she understood its needs\u201d. When he talks about her, Oscar lights up. \u201cShe was my point of reference in the family, there was a strong trust between us, I was an open book with her. I talked to her about everything, even about my first experiences with women. My mother was the one who convinced my father to buy this house, you know? She came from a family of farmers\u201d.[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=&#8221;11581&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; add_caption=&#8221;yes&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][vc_column_text]However, your father \u2013 the great Sergio \u2013 also came from a family of farmers. He was born in a hamlet in the district of Tre Olmi, next to the Secchia river; when Sergio was a child, he used to paint the tractors\u2019 models in red, his favourite colour. Sergio was only thirteen when he started to \u201clearn the job\u201d \u2013 as an errand boy or \u201c<em>factotum<\/em>\u201d \u2013 in the body shop. In winter, the road from that new world to the countryside home seemed endless, foggy, dark. The small Sergio walked it with racing pulse and with a five Lira silver coin under his tongue. It was the weekly pay and it was worth a treasure: it would have been a disaster if someone stole it! Who would have thought that that scared child would have become the patriarch of a body shop which would have made the history of cars.<\/p>\n<p>Success came without knocking on his door: on the other hand, it is always like so. Through the years, the Scaglietti e C. would become \u201cScaglietti\u201d full stop, with the split from Marchesi e Sala. In the meantime, the head offices were moved to San Lazzaro as a change, where the neighbour was nonetheless than Ferrari. For Sergio who loved red as a friend and who was enraptured when he saw a car that colour, Ferrari was the magic forge: the enchanted palace par excellence. \u00a0But how could he leave an impression on that man, who was already an out-of-reach legend for us? One afternoon, the right chance presented itself. Oscar still remembers it.[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=&#8221;11517&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; add_caption=&#8221;yes&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][vc_column_text]\u2013 My father was always there, looking at the cars going in and out and, when the chance occurred, he went to Ferrari to make small repairs: a lock, a bonnet. That is when he said: \u201cOne day I want to make one of these cars!\u201d and, at a certain point, that day came.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 What happened?<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 A Ferrari client crashed against an electricity pylon: the car was destroyed! The car\u2019s owner\u2019s name was Alberico Cacciari and he was a metal sheet manufacturer, who was fond of races. Luckily, Cacciari remembered that he saw my father\u2019s body shop right in front of Ferrari\u2019s, so he came asking him to fix his car. &#8220;What do you want to fix, if you wish I\u2019ll make it new again\u201d, my father proposed, adding: \u201cActually, if you give me ten aluminium sheets, I\u2019ll make it even lighter!\u201d Said and done: the old bodywork was discarded, with its heavy tubes and my father put together a nice car. At that stage, Cacciari brought it to the front, to assemble the engine and the mechanics and he took advantage of that to praise us: \u201cLook, Ferrari, look what a nice car the guy in front of you made for me!\u201d When they tried it, it actually drove better than the others because it was a lot lighter too\u2026 So, Ferrari crossed the road and told my father \u201cCan you make a few like that one for racing for me, do you have time to? Do you think you could manage?\u201d My father didn\u2019t need him to say it twice: he split from his brother and with another two people who worked there, he hired three guys and they started off like that, with six or seven of them. It was 1953: I was eight years old.[\/vc_column_text]<style type=\"text\/css\" data-type=\"the7_shortcodes-inline-css\">#default-btn-056406e528e71fd479d1be0ecc53e386.ico-right-side > i {\n  margin-right: 0px;\n  margin-left: 8px;\n}\n#default-btn-056406e528e71fd479d1be0ecc53e386 > i {\n  margin-right: 8px;\n}\n<\/style><div class=\"btn-align-center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/localhost\" class=\"default-btn-shortcode dt-btn dt-btn-m link-hover-off full-width-btn \" target=\"_blank\" id=\"default-btn-056406e528e71fd479d1be0ecc53e386\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>Have\u00a0 you\u00a0 also\u00a0 a\u00a0 story\u00a0 to\u00a0 tell?\u00a0 Write\u00a0 it!<\/span><\/a><\/div>[vc_column_text]Following in your father\u2019s footsteps isn\u2019t easy, partly because a father like Sergio was busy at all times and because \u2013 which is something that everybody who lives the situation of a family-run business will know \u2013 in such contexts of excellence, the concept of \u201cbig baby\u201d or mama\u2019s boy doesn\u2019t exist at all. Actually, quite the contrary, Oscar talks about himself with uttermost honesty.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 My father started off with a lot of courage: he had a wife and two children, which meant that he worked day and night.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 How do you remember him, back then?<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Look, I\u2019ll tell you something. Once I saw him with the moustache and I didn\u2019t recognise him. I hadn\u2019t seen him for so long, that the person I had in front of me was a stranger. I also cried, then he went to shave his moustache off and I stopped. I didn\u2019t recognise him as he worked all the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Were you born in San Lazzaro?<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 No, when I was a child, we lived in my paternal grandmother\u2019s house, but my cousins lived there too and so, one day, we understood that we couldn\u2019t all fit in there. So my father thought about moving to Tre Olmi, where my mother\u2019s sister and father lived and we lived there for four to five years. Then, we moved to Modena, because my father spent too long travelling to the workshop and we moved to San Lazzaro, where I started the second year at primary at the nuns. From the school window, I could see the Ferrari workshop courtyard. When I had time, I cycled to my father\u2019s workshop, to watch them making cars.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Yep, Ferrari. How did you see him back then, when you were a child? He must have not had an easy temper\u2026 I wonder how many times you would have seen him argue with your father.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Will you believe me if I said that I never saw them truly falling out? Just a few squabbles, such as \u201cI told you to do this, you always do as you please!\u201d. Such things. Then, a few minutes later, Enzo would call my father as if nothing happened, and used to tell him \u201cCome on, come here as I need you\u201d.[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=&#8221;4949&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; add_caption=&#8221;yes&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][vc_column_text]My father called him \u201cthe big man\u201d! I used to think to myself: he has some ideas\u2026 he\u2019s a bit of a dictator. I mean, I was intimidated by him. He looked sourly, cruel. Then, little by little, he proved himself to be a wonderful person: but only with a selected few! He was close to us and he told us about his own stuff. He came every morning. He went to Antonio\u2019s to get his beard shaved, then he went to the cemetery and, on the way back, he came to see us. We only spoke in dialect. Often, he had us accompany the clients. Sometimes he had some of them take a drive on his coupe, just to let them hear the engine. You should have seen the clients who came off the car with all of the hair straight on their head! Once in a while, from mid-July to the end of August, the Drake didn\u2019t have his cook, so they came to ours in the countryside: they placed the driver and the body-guard under the oak tree. They met with the knight commander Barilla, who brought maccheroni and tagliatelle. There was also Cremonini, the one who owned the meat empire. The entrepreneurs from Correggio came, as well as those who helped us with plastics and they\u00a0told each other their own stories from outside work. Listening to them was beautiful, they brought up some fantastic anecdotes! They talked about visits from kings and other people, in a different way to how they were told in the magazines. They were magnificent days.[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=&#8221;11579&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; add_caption=&#8221;yes&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][vc_column_text]\u2013 Anecdotes aside, can you remember what they talked about?<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Sure! It had been a few years since the early years in San Lazzaro. You heard things about the progress made by industries, the investment strategies\u2026 I liked listening to them because, as a greenhorn, I learned things that they would have never taught me at school. Specifically, I remember the period of the major strikes between \u201968 and \u201970, when some entrepreneurs threatened to shut down because they said: \u201cIf we cannot rule our companies, there is no point in investing money, which will need to be shared with the trade unions\u201d. Such things made me think: how can a young person who has just started working for the company, hear about an entrepreneur who\u2019s about to shut down because the trade unions are a tough cookie? However, in most occasions, they talked about new projects: about what they could do to improve contacts with suppliers and clients, to have a dynamic expanding company, not like a small shop, but with a more open mentality. There were some who thought about how to set up a better work organisation, etc.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 And how did the <em>Drake <\/em>deal with the situation?<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Enzo Ferrari tried to understand how he could improve his relationship with the employees. He was a hard nut with the trade unions, but in the end, he made concessions for the company\u2019s own good. \u201cIf the workers are happy, it benefits me\u201d he used to say. There was a time where basically the manufacturing halted because there was a strike after another: alternated work, one-quarter of an hour on and a quarter of an hour down.[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=&#8221;11548&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; add_caption=&#8221;yes&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][vc_column_text]We had 65\/70 employees who had to make 7\/8 cars a day. It wasn\u2019t easy. Yes, we nearly had to shut down shop: the trade unions were very tough around here. When there were company\u00a0negotiations, things got resolved, but when they wanted to make national agreements with different realities, they ended up causing massive contrasts all over Italy. Our company always went well, until the trade unions merged together.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 How did your father deal with this situation?<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Well, as chief of the group, dad used to say: \u201cOkay, I\u2019m fine with giving you a pay rise but please, you have to work, I want you to be present and please be careful to work safely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Did many of them strike?<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 The employees were half and half. If you want the full story, the slackers were the ones who struck the most. All of that happened in \u201968 and it lasted for many months, then, in \u201973 and \u201974, my father invited the trade union representatives to sit down around a table. 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