{"id":11674,"date":"2019-01-15T13:01:29","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T12:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.internationalclassic.com\/?p=11674\/"},"modified":"2019-02-05T11:00:18","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T10:00:18","slug":"oscar-sergio-scaglietti-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/en\/oscar-sergio-scaglietti-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Scaglietti: \u201cI want to make a car\u201d &#8211; Chapter 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2013 You were still at school during those years, weren\u2019t you?<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 No, I had already finished. I didn\u2019t like school. It\u2019s not that I didn\u2019t do well there, but I couldn\u2019t develop a liking for Latin at all. The PE teacher was a despot, always ready to tell you off. I used to tell myself \u201cI need to do something to become better than him! So, when the law that made the school compulsory until 14 years old was passed, I thought about repeating the second year of middle school twice. To sum it up: I turned 14 on 16<sup>th<\/sup> June, on the 12<sup>th<\/sup> I finished school and, on my birthday, I went to work at my father\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t<style type='text\/css'>\n\t\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\t\twidth: 100%;\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='dt-gallery-container gallery galleryid-11674 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-full'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"999\" height=\"887\" src=\"https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Sergio-e-Oscar-Scaglietti-1.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-11662\" srcset=\"https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Sergio-e-Oscar-Scaglietti-1.jpeg 999w, https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Sergio-e-Oscar-Scaglietti-1-300x266.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Sergio-e-Oscar-Scaglietti-1-768x682.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 999px) 100vw, 999px\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-11662'>\n\t\t\t\t\tOscar and his father Sergio Scaglietti in the workshop, from the volume &#8220;L&#8217;\u00ea and\u00e9da acs\u00e8&#8221; written by Franco Gozzi, Artioli Editore\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 What was working in the workshop like, during the early days?<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 What was it like? I was accepted like I was the resident idiot. The comment was: \u201cCretin, you failed the school year, come on\u2026 put the tyres on! Sweep the floor! Sort out the wood shavings!\u201d We worked hard all day long, until the evening. There were some people who welded and had the blowtorch with the tubes, the gasometer with the silicon carbide in it, to make gas (because we made it), acetylene, oxygen\u2026 We had to close the taps, make sure that they didn\u2019t stay open overnight and then we had to \u201cwrap up the rubbers\u201d so that the tubes didn\u2019t twist.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 And did you do your best?<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 I had to, otherwise, it was a big problem!<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 What was your father like with you? Besides him reprimanding you for failing the school year, did he treat you as a son, in the workshop?<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Oh no, absolutely not! He constantly told me off, so that the others understood that there were no preferences. We had to do things well, there was no escaping that. When my father got angry, he kicked the bins hard and used to shout \u201cyou don\u2019t understand a thing, you\u2019re an idiot, I was right about that!\u201d But I never saw him getting majorly angry\u2026 If he said \u201cdo it like this\u201d, it meant that that was how we had to do it. And if something was wrong, I was the one that he shouted at in front of everyone. Well \u201ceveryone\u201d\u2026 there were eleven of us back then. Not that many.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 It must not have been easy. How did you feel?<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 How do you think I felt? Bad, of course. I never dared to contradict my father in front of the others. At home I did, often, we had discussions to justify our choices and to clear the air between us. If I was right, my father was the first to admit that. I thought: it\u2019s hard to climb the ladder! Then one blow with Afro Gibellini, one with <a href=\"https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/en\/gian-carlo-guerra\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Giancarlo Guerra<\/a> and one with Amleto\u2026 a day he put me to work as a help in the manufacturing department. How did it work? They gave me a piece of cardboard with the shape and I had to cut out the metal sheet. The masters used to tell me \u201cHere there is a 1cm bend and you put it in this mask, then you hammer all around it\u201d and so I already made the little pieces that the others assembled later.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Do you mean your teachers?<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Yes. My first teacher was my father, a teacher in life and at work.<span style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-align: center;\"> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t<style type='text\/css'>\n\t\t\t\t#gallery-2 {\n\t\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t#gallery-2 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\t\twidth: 100%;\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t#gallery-2 img {\n\t\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t#gallery-2 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-2' class='dt-gallery-container gallery galleryid-11674 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-full'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"5184\" height=\"3456\" src=\"https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Oscar-e-Sergio.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Oscar e Sergio Scaglietti\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-11616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Oscar-e-Sergio.jpeg 5184w, https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Oscar-e-Sergio-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Oscar-e-Sergio-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Oscar-e-Sergio-1024x683.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 5184px) 100vw, 5184px\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-11616'>\n\t\t\t\t\tOscar and his father Sergio Scaglietti\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 And what about the others, what were they like as teachers?<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Oh, they were anything but tender. When I made a mistake soldering, some of them burned the hair off my hand!<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Really?<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Yes, but each one of them helped me in their own way. Of course, the methods were what they were: a slap and that\u2019s it.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Would you have liked to become a panel beater? Or was that only a starting point for you, before you moved on to something else?<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 I liked that, but I had something else on my mind. Beating metal isn\u2019t easy, but you need to be careful not to put anywhere there is already too much of it, or not to remove it where it\u2019s missing. The best tools are your eyes and your sensitivity of intuition, hearing if the hammering is solid or a tic, tic, tic. You know, there are some people who hammer too much, which is useless. The hammering needs to have a purpose: the hammer shouldn\u2019t be stroked but dominated. However, as I mentioned previously, my head was elsewhere. What I really wanted was to make a car.<\/p>\n<p>Playing with cars\u2026 all children started like that: with the car seen as a toy, a little like a first (rudimental) treasure. That is why desiring to <em>make <\/em>a car has a lot of meaning. It\u2019s a sort of threshold, an open door on adulthood.<\/p>\n<p>An obvious question comes to mind.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2013 What was the first car that you made?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Well, I started when I was 14 years old and we made the long wheelbase California and the Tour the France. I made the California\u2019s doors with Afro Gibellini, who, as well as Ferrari Franco, was in charge of making niches, small doors, air inlets and the mouth of the GTO. Then, I worked with <a href=\"https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/en\/gian-carlo-guerra\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Giancarlo Guerra<\/a> and I learned to make the underbody, the shells\u2026 He knew how to make everything! I learned how to make the windscreen\u2019s frames when they were manufactured over three pre-shaped and pre-cut metal sheets with adaptable development, because we bent the metal sheet when it was already shaped, and when it was finished, it was shaped like a cone. We made all of the different developments out of cardboard, with the first piece made, you adapted it to the mask, then you piled the development, you put it back on the metal sheets and you cut out pieces which were all the same and with the right development, so that when you bent it, it went to its own position spontaneously, without needing corrections, hammering or further soldering. Fiat already pressed that kind of metal sheets, but they wasted a whole sheet to make a frame, and it was a large sheet too. Whereas, as we cut out the developments, we placed one inside the other, therefore there was less waste. On the other hand, all pieces were cut out by hand: therefore, the labour cost was higher for the product, but there was a significant saving in terms of material.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t<style type='text\/css'>\n\t\t\t\t#gallery-3 {\n\t\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t#gallery-3 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\t\twidth: 100%;\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t#gallery-3 img {\n\t\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t#gallery-3 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-3' class='dt-gallery-container gallery galleryid-11674 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-full'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"3823\" height=\"2888\" src=\"https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Tour-de-France.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-3-11618\" srcset=\"https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Tour-de-France.jpg 3823w, https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Tour-de-France-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Tour-de-France-768x580.jpg 768w, https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Tour-de-France-1024x774.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3823px) 100vw, 3823px\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-3-11618'>\n\t\t\t\t\tFrom the volume &#8220;L&#8217;\u00ea and\u00e9da acs\u00e8&#8221; written by Franco Gozzi, Artioli Editore\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Roughly speaking, we got to the 60\u2019s:<strong> the golden age<\/strong> for the <strong>Carrozzeria Scaglietti<\/strong>. I wonder how many important people came to you\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Yes, in the 60\u2019s I saw many of those: lucky people. Look at Marzotto, for example, an excellence within the weaving industry. \u00a0You should have seen Marzotto when he came to our workshop, enthusiastic to see the metal sheets being hammered, he was very fond of cars. Another person who I remember in particular was Greg Garrison, TV producer and director, a friend of Frank Sinatra, of Sammy Davis Jnr, of Dean Martin\u2026 I liked him because he could make the artist, the oil company director and the politician roles all together. He enchanted me! In Montecarlo, he used to rent an attic and invite all of his friends, there were people there of all social statuses. He dealt with everybody. He could sell stuff to everybody and he had his own cut. He was a quick-change artist, and he made a lot of money. He had something like nine or ten Ferraris, all with personalised finishings and he lived on others\u2019 work. I considered him to be a chameleon and that was what aroused my curiosity. I used to think to myself: if I could juggle between kings, princes, billionaires, politicians, actors!<\/p>\n<p><style type=\"text\/css\" data-type=\"the7_shortcodes-inline-css\">#default-btn-d8a1819b9074ef6ca9274586c28b226e.ico-right-side > i {\n  margin-right: 0px;\n  margin-left: 8px;\n}\n#default-btn-d8a1819b9074ef6ca9274586c28b226e > 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-d8a1819b9074ef6ca9274586c28b226e\" 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]<\/p>\n<p>I remember when Sergio made the Ippocrate\u2019s car for the Mille Miglia, a Tour de France.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Is Ippocrate truly his own name? It sounds like a stage name.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 It was actually his pseudonym: he used it so that his wife wouldn\u2019t recognise him, as she would have never allowed him to race. This gentleman driver, the owner of the Timavo paper factory in Trieste, signed up for races with his stage name \u2026. X car, without adding the chassis name and the registration number, so that even if his wife looked at the newspaper and said \u201clook at this idiot\u201d she didn\u2019t realise that it was actually her husband! She read \u201cIppocrate\u201d and she didn\u2019t raise any problems with him. These gentlemen were my father\u2019s first sponsor. \u00a0Even Marzotto, before he went to Enzo Ferrari, used to stop by at my father\u2019s \u201cSergio, I\u2019m going to order a car, can you make it?\u201d There was a friendly and human relationship between them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t<style type='text\/css'>\n\t\t\t\t#gallery-4 {\n\t\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t#gallery-4 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\t\twidth: 100%;\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t#gallery-4 img {\n\t\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t#gallery-4 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-4' class='dt-gallery-container gallery galleryid-11674 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-full'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"3503\" height=\"2440\" src=\"https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Marzotto-Mille-Miglia.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-4-11622\" srcset=\"https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Marzotto-Mille-Miglia.jpg 3503w, https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Marzotto-Mille-Miglia-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Marzotto-Mille-Miglia-768x535.jpg 768w, https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Marzotto-Mille-Miglia-1024x713.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3503px) 100vw, 3503px\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-4-11622'>\n\t\t\t\t\tGiannino Marzotto at Mille Miglia, from the volume &#8220;L&#8217;\u00ea and\u00e9da acs\u00e8&#8221; written by Franco Gozzi, Artioli Editore\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Can you mention a few names?<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Well, there were the singers: Mario Del Monaco, who wanted the personalisation, the golden nested initials in the steel knobs, which were handmade. I liked Del Monaco. I met him because he came here, to ours, dad took the California to his house. He lived right next to Tito Schipa. Actually, do you know that they used to call on each other singing, from one balcony to another? Yes, that\u2019s right! When my father took the California there, Del Monaco called on Schippa with a high note to invite him to go and see the new car.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Can you remember any other famous people?<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 When <strong>King Leopold<\/strong> came with his wife, I saw him, do you know that? The queen was beautiful. I was also charmed by my father\u2019s simplicity, who spent time with all of those people. He was the same Sergio as ever with anybody, and this is not something that everybody would do.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t<style type='text\/css'>\n\t\t\t\t#gallery-5 {\n\t\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t#gallery-5 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\t\twidth: 100%;\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t#gallery-5 img {\n\t\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t#gallery-5 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-5' class='dt-gallery-container gallery galleryid-11674 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-full'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"3669\" height=\"2679\" src=\"https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Re-Leopoldo-e-Lilliane-De-Rethy.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-5-11620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Re-Leopoldo-e-Lilliane-De-Rethy.jpg 3669w, https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Re-Leopoldo-e-Lilliane-De-Rethy-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Re-Leopoldo-e-Lilliane-De-Rethy-768x561.jpg 768w, https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Re-Leopoldo-e-Lilliane-De-Rethy-1024x748.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3669px) 100vw, 3669px\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-5-11620'>\n\t\t\t\t\tKing Leopold and Lilian de R\u00e9thy, from the volume &#8220;L&#8217;\u00ea and\u00e9da acs\u00e8&#8221; written by Franco Gozzi, Artioli Editore\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Oscar laughs.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 I have to tell you what happened with the doves!<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 What do you mean, what happened with the doves? When the Belgian king came to try the California with the queen, my father, very politely, said \u201cCome here, madam, I\u2019ll let you try the seat. Here, this is your car.\u201d Then, he started chatting and talking about the family, my father told them that my brother really liked carrier pigeons. Back then, we had a small dovecote in the company, which a dove enthusiast, kept racing doves for long and short races. Thus, the king sent his driver with a little cage containing two pigeons and he had it delivered to the workshop. When my father saw the cage he said \u201cOh, look at how chubby they are! Now we\u2019ll give them to Carola to stuff them!\u201d Everybody laughed, while the driver was alarmed: \u201cMr Scaglietti, these are racing pigeons! They\u2019re not to be eaten, they\u2019re the King\u2019s racing pigeons!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 And what happened to the pigeons?<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 My brother and his pigeon enthusiast friend had them mating with ours and when we put the hybrid pigeons on the field, those which had been crossbred with the \u201croyal\u201d ones always came first.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t<style type='text\/css'>\n\t\t\t\t#gallery-6 {\n\t\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t#gallery-6 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\t\twidth: 100%;\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t#gallery-6 img {\n\t\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t#gallery-6 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-6' class='dt-gallery-container gallery galleryid-11674 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-full'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"5184\" height=\"3456\" src=\"https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Oscar-Scaglietti-1.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-6-11671\" srcset=\"https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Oscar-Scaglietti-1.jpeg 5184w, https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Oscar-Scaglietti-1-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Oscar-Scaglietti-1-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Oscar-Scaglietti-1-1024x683.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 5184px) 100vw, 5184px\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-6-11671'>\n\t\t\t\t\tOscar Scaglietti\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>\u2013 One day, we got a call. \u201cWe need to race in Mont Ventoux, there are forty days to go, please organise everything\u201d. We got to work straight away, to put the team together to build the Ferrari 206 Dino Sport. We worked day and night for this prototype, which was smaller and lighter than the P1, 2, 3, with the engine of the Dino. The Cavallino restaurant was in charge of bringing us food every five hours: a pasta dish, a main course and a side dish. The team was made up of seven people, I was the eight: I worked as a panel beater. They assigned us shifts, we worked without a break for even 13 hours a day. The Knight Commander came to check the work and always gave us satisfaction: \u201cOh, you have already finished that!\u201d He said every time. On the fortieth day, the Dino left for the mountain GP at Mount Ventoux and it came first\u2026 Ferrari, with Ludovico, won the European championship on that year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He smiles happily and a little touched. <strong>Scaglietti\u2019s golden years<\/strong>, for Oscar also correspond with the years of his personal growth.<\/p>\n<p>The apprenticeship comes to an end, it\u2019s time to look to the future and to do that with an adult mind, also because the automobile industry is changing and you need to keep up with such changes: maybe looking beyond the obvious too. That is how Oscar momentarily moved to <strong>Pininfarina<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 That\u2019s where I built most of my career, because the two \u201cSergios\u201d, my father and Pininfarina, agreed on the fact that I was to grow as a corporate figure.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t<style type='text\/css'>\n\t\t\t\t#gallery-7 {\n\t\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t#gallery-7 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\t\twidth: 100%;\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t#gallery-7 img {\n\t\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t#gallery-7 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-7' class='dt-gallery-container gallery galleryid-11674 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-full'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"5184\" height=\"3456\" src=\"https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Scaglietti-e-Pininfarina.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Sergio Scaglietti and Sergio Pininfarina\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-7-11626\" srcset=\"https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Scaglietti-e-Pininfarina.jpeg 5184w, https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Scaglietti-e-Pininfarina-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Scaglietti-e-Pininfarina-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Scaglietti-e-Pininfarina-1024x683.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 5184px) 100vw, 5184px\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-7-11626'>\n\t\t\t\t\tSergio Scaglietti and Sergio Pininfarina\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At Pininfarina, they placed me alongside the general director: I had a very small desk in a corner of his huge office. It was curious that Pininfarina had introduced a small book, titled \u201cthe lexicon of bodywork\u201d, so that they all spoke the same language. I still have a copy of it with me, that I keep with affection and nostalgia. I learned a lot during that period. I also attended many ergonomics courses, for example, how the worker had to move. I was often in Turin, even for eight days at a time, to attend these courses. I conducted studies about work, about how you enhance the value of a right handed and a left handed person, because designing and equipment need to take such things into account. A machine\u2019s working process had to consider who is soldering and how the job is developed, you need to consider the different metals\u2019 shrinkage, you might find defects by a few centimetres in soldering jobs, due to the width and thickness of the metal sheets. We understood that by placing at the two sides of the car a right handed and a left handed person, the soldering work was restricted and were symmetrical. That is, there was always a bit of shrinkage, but it was always symmetrical. Thus we started measuring shrinkage and experience lead us to creating parts which were upsized in function of their shrinkage, so that at the end of the manufacturing process, the chassis were perfect, just like in the drawing.<\/p>\n<p>Oscar talks. He repeats several times that \u201cstarting to move around\u201d made his fortune, he\u2019s convinced about that and while I listen to him, he makes me think that this is one of the many joining points between yesterday and today. With a changing world in the background, the best strategy certainly consists of looking around, being open to change and renouncing the conveniences of your comfort zone. Between the experience at Pininfarina and at Fiat, Oscar learned several things which range between organising work and expertise in different areas<\/p>\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<p><em>By International Classic, written by Martina Fragale<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Keep following the story\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/en\/oscar-sergio-scaglietti-3\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Scaglietti: \u201cI want to make a car\u201d &#8211; Chapter 3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read also:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/en\/oscar-sergio-scaglietti\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scaglietti: \u201cI want to make a car\u201d &#8211; Chapter 1<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/en\/oscar-sergio-scaglietti-4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scaglietti: \u201cI want to make a car\u201d &#8211; Chapter 4<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/en\/oscar-sergio-scaglietti-5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scaglietti: \u201cI want to make a car\u201d &#8211; Chapter 5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Have you also a story to tell?<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Do you know anyone who would like to tell his one?<\/em><\/h4>\n<div class=\"text-centered\"><a href=\"https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/en\/your-story\/\" class=\"btn-shortcode dt-btn-m dt-btn default-btn-color default-btn-hover-color default-btn-bg-color default-btn-bg-hover-color fadeIn animate-element animation-builder\" id=\"dt-btn-1\"><span>Write it!<\/span><\/a><\/div>[\/vc_column_text]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2013 You were still at school during those years, weren\u2019t you? \u2013 No, I had already finished. 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