{"id":13878,"date":"2019-06-15T11:26:39","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T09:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.internationalclassic.com\/?p=13878\/"},"modified":"2019-06-15T11:26:39","modified_gmt":"2019-06-15T09:26:39","slug":"alfredo-vignale-en","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/en\/alfredo-vignale-en\/","title":{"rendered":"Alfredo Vignale"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A talent for forming bodywork runs in Alfredo Vignale<\/strong>\u2019s family. His father, both of his uncles and brothers were car painters. At the age of eleven, he joined a metalworking firm as a workshop apprentice, and when he was 17 he became a full-time assistant panel-beater<\/strong> at the Stabilimenti Farina<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In late 1946, he was duly established in via Cigliano, in Turin<\/strong>, where Carrozzeria Vignale<\/strong> was born. His two brothers were also involved in the new enterprise.
\nItaly was undergoing a period of economic recovery<\/strong>. It was a moment for new energies, new projects and implementations in the automobile industry too.[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”13786″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Carrozzeria Vignale started off their production with three special aerodynamic coup\u00e9s<\/strong> on behalf of Cisitalia<\/strong>. The next body they fitted was a second hand Fiat Topolino<\/strong>. When the Carrozzeria Vignale won the second prize in a design competition it was soon receiving direct commissions<\/strong> from both Fiat<\/strong> and Lancia<\/strong>.[\/vc_column_text]