{"id":1660,"date":"2018-10-23T08:01:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T06:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/internationalclassic.sicomunicaweb.com\/william-gatti-elettrocontadino\/"},"modified":"2019-05-07T16:40:47","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T14:40:47","slug":"william-gatti-auto-electrician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/en\/william-gatti-auto-electrician\/","title":{"rendered":"William Gatti, Auto Electrician"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h3>The Electrofarmer<\/h3>\n<p>\u2013 I\u2019m an <em>electrofarmer<\/em>.<br \/>\nHe says that with a mix of pride and shyness, nearly as if he wanted to anticipate what I\u2019m about to ask, and suggest the reading key to all of his history.<br \/>\n\u2013 An <em>electrofarmer<\/em>? How?<\/p>\n<p>He brushes himself aside with a general gesture as if he had already said everything.<br \/>\n\u2013 Yes\u2026 an <em>electrofarmer<\/em>. Someone who is both an auto electrician and a farmer. My parents worked the land: I always lived with them and&#8230; I always helped them. When my father passed away, I carried on. Actually, I bought another bit of land. In Solara, you know? Eight kilometres away from here.<\/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-1660 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=\"794\" height=\"578\" src=\"https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"William Gatti, Auto Electrician\" srcset=\"https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1.jpg 794w, https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1-768x559.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 794px) 100vw, 794px\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>His red face, his blue eyes which smile seemingly friendly, behind a crevice: William Gatti looks younger than sixty-eight. His workshop is pristine and clean: it looks like the hall of a luxurious hotel. When I point that out, he looks towards his son, Christian.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 He\u2019s the tidiness freak, not me!<br \/>\nChristian lifts his head and nods.<br \/>\n\u2013 That\u2019s true. You should have seen the mess he used to work in when I was little: boxes, junk everywhere\u2026 What a disaster! He could actually always find everything in that chaos.<\/p>\n<p>William Gatti doesn\u2019t answer. He smiles to himself and he even looks a little proud in remembering the garage of his house, where he\u2019d started working on his own from back in 1986.<br \/>\nThat\u2019s right, his house and shop: with his wife and children upstairs and him downstairs, lost between the cables and those systems which he reconstructed with passion and painstaking patience.<\/p>\n<p>Electricity is a contained fire, blood which pulses impatiently in a car\u2019s veins. An identikit which perfectly matches the first impression you have of William Gatti when you meet him: a contained fire which floods through every pore and which flames at the height of his face. It might be due to that passion that \u2013 he underlines several times \u2013 you need to put into everything you do: as much as in the care for the vineyard, and in the attention you put into giving the vital spark back to the classic car.<\/p>\n<p>Today, he\u2019s moved from his <em>garage<\/em> to the top floor \u2013 from rags to riches, as you say \u2013 the large loft of the workshop which he opened a little less than 10 years ago. And if at first glance the difference to the garage seems obvious, it is also true that in this movement of curtains there is a point in common: the need for concentration, rather than for isolation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I need silence to work \u2013 Gatti confirms \u2013 My son likes listening to the radio, but I cannot work with background noise. Luckily, we get on and he can hear well, so we found a compromise: he keeps his radio down and I work here, upstairs. You need concentration to create a system. Up here I do my own stuff\u2026 peacefully. On my own. I cannot do two things at once, also because you need all wires in an electric system. I mean, I always need to pay attention to the smallest of details: if I forget something, that means trouble.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, you only need to look at his workbench to understand that, when talking about the complexity of his job, he\u2019s completely right. Just to be clear, it isn\u2019t messy (you notice Christian\u2019s input here too), but seeing an electric system like that, as if it was lying down on an operating theatre\u2019s table, is enough to understand how articulated its structure is.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Multi-coloured wire balls are hanging from the walls. Christian tells me that when he was little when he went to his father\u2019s <em>garage<\/em> with this friends, he used the wires to create bangles and actually \u2013 if you look at them with the eye of an amateur \u2013 those newly made electric systems look somewhat recreational. As if they were some giant <em>Scooby Doo\u2019s<\/em>.<br \/>\nYou only need to focus on a few details though, to realise that there must be a strict method behind the result, which has been established through the years. William Gatti nods. There is a method, but it created itself: a little like the vineyard, which grows and provides its fruit under his vigilant gaze.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 There are some systems which I\u2019d already worked on in the past. In that case, I start off from the wiring diagram, which is downstairs\u2026 in the library.<br \/>\n\u2013 In the library?<br \/>\n\u2013 Yes, I\u2019ll show you later.<br \/>\n\u2013 Are you referring to instruction booklets?<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 No, cars only started to have their own maintenance booklet from the \u201980s: previously there was no handbook.\u00a0 And, in any case, the handbook only provides you with an overall ideal, when you make repairs\u2026 reconstructing is something different all together.\u00a0 Downstairs, in the library, I have the wiring diagrams of all of the systems which I\u2019ve worked on through the years. I start from there when I happen to work on a car of the same kind. I take the wiring diagram and\u2026 off we go! Everything is already there: measurements, colours of the wires and everything else. Whereas, when I happen to work on a car, which I never put hands on, I have a different approach: I need to have the car in my hands.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>The wiring diagrams<\/h3>\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-1660 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=\"1142\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Diapositiva6.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"William Gatti, Auto Electrician\" srcset=\"https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Diapositiva6.jpg 1142w, https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Diapositiva6-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Diapositiva6-768x424.jpg 768w, https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Diapositiva6-1024x565.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1142px) 100vw, 1142px\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Gatti describes an articulated process, which is conducted side by side with the other \u201cactors\u201d who intervene during the different phases of the restoration: the body shop mechanic, the mechanic, the upholsterer. The car arrives at William Gatti\u2019s workshop in bare condition. Or better: it gets there stripped, deprived of any detail: it is stripped from the mechanics and upholstery so that it\u2019s easier to extract its electric system. The lights and the dashboard are dismantled, afterwards, the dashboard is given to the upholsterer, who will upholster it from scratch. Then, the car is given to the body shop mechanic (who will take care of the metal sheet and to re-varnish it) and then, it goes back to Gatti\u2019s workshop, with no engine nor interiors\u2026 with nothing but fresh varnish.<\/p>\n<p>At this stage, William Gatti equips it with the refurbished electric system, which is tested out. Now the car goes back to the body shop mechanic and the other restoration professionals: the mechanic \u2013 who will mount the engine \u2013 and the upholsterer, who will upholster the interiors. An actual <em>concert of work<\/em>, which \u2013 Gatti confirms \u2013 takes quite a long time.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 In total, considering the different stages, the restoration of a car may even take years. Our job takes around a month and a half. And the job of the auto electrician is barely mentioned. Everybody thinks about the mechanic, the body shop mechanic, but let\u2019s be honest: the car won\u2019t start without the electric system!<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=&#8221;WE ALL HAVE A STORY, TELL US YOURS!&#8221; style=&#8221;outline-custom&#8221; outline_custom_color=&#8221;#990000&#8243; outline_custom_hover_background=&#8221;#fce523&#8243; outline_custom_hover_text=&#8221;#000000&#8243; shape=&#8221;square&#8221; size=&#8221;lg&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; button_block=&#8221;true&#8221; link=&#8221;url:http%3A%2F%2Flocalhost:10372%2Fracconta-la-tua-storia%2F||target:%20_blank|&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The electric system, indeed: I ask Gatti to tell me how he creates a diagram when he puts his hands on a car for the first time.<br \/>\n\u2013 First of all, we deal with extracting the old system, we lie it on the bench and we compare it with the wiring diagrams in our archive. Often, we need to re-make everything from scratch because each classic car is a world of its own. Once we compared the system with the wiring diagram, I trace the first drawing, with pen and paper. I include everything in the drawing: we take the measurements of the different cables, we indicate the function of each exit\u2026 Then we make the second drawing: the cut list. We take all cables, one by one (starting with the front ones, for the lights, to the dashboard) and we report everything: colour, length, diameter. Afterwards, I trace the third drawing: the large one, which you can see here, on the table.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Is that the first life-sized drawing?<br \/>\n\u2013 No, here I only report the dashboard and the fuse block, which is the heart of the electric system. I make a large drawing in 1:1 scale and I work directly on that. As far as the rear and the front are concerned, I build them based on the first drawing and on the cut list. \u00a0Afterwards, it\u2019s about assembling everything: to join the parts into one. It\u2019s a little like having a body, cut in several parts, lying down on the operating theatre table, with different exits: they need to be connected to the different veins. Finally, we proceed to the taping, we place the rope ends (that is, the iron junctions), we connect the wires to the fuse block and we add the different accessories (switches, buttons, etc.), just to check that everything works. Then, we remove them to mount them on the car.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 What about the wiring diagrams library?<br \/>\n\u2013 That\u2019s right, the library\u2026 come with me, and I\u2019ll show you.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m facing no less than the treasure chest. The \u201cwiring diagrams library\u201d is as colourful as the wires of the systems that William Gatti braids patiently. There are many red binders, with a ream of multi-coloured folders peeking out. In there, there are over forty years of history and experience, detailed radiographies of the venous systems of cars which made history\u2026 the same which appear on the workshop\u2019s walls, with the drawings that Christian has traced with his experienced hands.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re historical cars, which Gatti worked on: Lamborghini Miura, Auto Avio Costruzioni 815, Lamborghini 350 GTV, Maserati A6G Frua\u2026 William Gatti points them out proudly, calling one by one by name. He does that as if they were something hybrid, half-way between a hunting trophy and a photo album full of memories. And especially, he does that as if \u2013 in a certain way \u2013 they were \u201chis\u201d. He\u2019s a little like a physician when helping a new life coming to life is equivalent to taking its paternity, to a certain extent.<\/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-1660 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=\"896\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Diapositiva7.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"William Gatti, Auto Electrician\" srcset=\"https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Diapositiva7.jpg 896w, https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Diapositiva7-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Diapositiva7-768x617.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 896px) 100vw, 896px\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You would never say that everything started off with some cardboard boxes! William Gatti smiles when he tells me about it. It\u2019s true, he always had a thing for cars\u2019 electrical systems, but he took the road which leads him to where he is today fortuitously following logic based on the stricter practical sense \u2013 very farmer-like.<br \/>\n\u201cYou don\u2019t want to study anymore? That\u2019s fine\u201d, his father told him, a clever man who didn\u2019t choose to work in the fields but he had found himself doing it as if it was a too heavy burden to carry. He would have liked something different for his son, for example, that he continued to study.<\/p>\n<p>But William didn\u2019t want to know, and he attended only the legally compulsory schools: primary and junior high school. That was it. His father had taken the refusal without complaining and he immediately found him a job, working for a friend of his who made cardboard boxes. Deep down, he probably wished to flatten his path, so to avoid that he would end up being a farmer like himself. William indulged him, but he had never cut his ties to the land, so he continued to help his parents during his spare time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI continued to make boxes for six, seven years \u2013 Gatti tells me \u2013 Then, in 1970, a position became available at Scaglietti: I didn\u2019t have them asking me twice! At Scaglietti, we worked on a chain. I started lying down the cars\u2019 systems, then, I was lucky enough to have a boss who switched me to all the different stations. That is how I learned my job, on Ferrari\u2019s of course, because at that time, that is all they did at Scaglietti.<\/p>\n<p>In \u201978, they moved our department to Maranello: I stayed there for 3 days, then I resigned. It was too far for me and I received an offer to go into business with a workshop close to me. That\u2019s how I began to put my hands on other cars too, such as Maserati and Lamborghini. Then, I started to wander through other workshops, until \u201986, when I became self-employed and I started working on my own.<\/p>\n<p>In the garage of his house, a little like Steve Jobs, with the difference that, at the time, William Gatti, knew his job in every detail and he already knew exactly what to do. The systems were made at home (<em>home-made<\/em>, in the most honest sense of the term) and then they were taken to the location. The hard \u2013 but stimulating \u2013 life of a <em>freelancer: <\/em>you need to be born with talent, in order to accept its burden and lightness.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 A big difference to when I was a regular employee at Scaglietti\u2019s. Please be honest, did you like working on your own?<br \/>\n\u2013 Well, yes: it was a clever and profitable method. However, the other side of the medal was that the end customer didn\u2019t know that I had worked on their car. In any case, things went round, with their pros and cons. Years went by and I had already decided to shut down shop and retire. At that stage, my son arrived and he broke the eggs in my basket!<\/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-1660 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=\"959\" height=\"719\" src=\"https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"William Gatti, Auto Electrician\" srcset=\"https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1-1.jpg 959w, https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1-1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 959px) 100vw, 959px\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Father and son, history goes on<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4256 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/PADRE-E-FIGLIO-LA-STORIA-CONTINUA-FOTO-3-2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"343\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/PADRE-E-FIGLIO-LA-STORIA-CONTINUA-FOTO-3-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/PADRE-E-FIGLIO-LA-STORIA-CONTINUA-FOTO-3-2.jpg 646w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 343px) 100vw, 343px\" \/>He went to Turin, to study car design. Then, they told him that in order to do his job, he would have had to go abroad, far away from Modena\u2026 and he didn\u2019t like that at all. \u00a0One day, I saw him arriving and he told me: \u201cDad, I\u2019ll come to work with you!\u201d What should I answer? Nothing, I put aside the idea of retiring and I got back on track. That is how, ten years ago or so, we decided to change our working system and we re-opened the workshop, here in Bomporto.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Why did you do that? Was that to escape anonymity?<br \/>\n\u2013 Well, no, it wasn\u2019t: it was for convenience reasons. It is difficult to work in someone else\u2019s house because you may find a car in the cold or under the sun and you have to get on with it\u2026<br \/>\nWilliam Gatti will never admit to it, but I\u2019m secretly convinced that there is a lot more than a pure and simple convenience issue behind his decision to open a workshop. The alchemical process, with which a Name is turned into a Brand \u2013 what, in \u201ccorporate\u201d terms is called <em>personal branding <\/em>\u2013 presupposes an underlying reason: an awareness of your own professional identity. A process of individualisation which conflicts with some characteristics of the farmer <em>humus, <\/em>where, as well as Gatti, the majority of the artisans that you meet in the Modena area come from.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen someone asked Enzo Ferrari why his factory was in Maranello and not elsewhere \u2013 Christian points out \u2013 he answered that here there are farmers and that no one is better than farmers in turning the matter of nothing and create great works of art, with their own hands and talent\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s true. As it is also true though, that the farmer\u2019s mind often wishes to remain anonymous, in virtue of a loyalty to their origins, which goes hand in hand with the intolerance towards those who tend to have too big an ego. Modesty is an obligation, just like how I notice when Gatti talks to me, with a reproachful tone, of his colleagues who tended to show off too much.<br \/>\nFlying is fine\u2026 as long as you fly low, with an eye towards the sky and one towards land.<\/p>\n<p>He always fits within this same frame \u2013 the \u201cobligated modesty\u201d \u2013 which is inscribed into the artisan\u2019s creative expression: a secret signature, left between the lines as if it was written with invisible ink. Because even the scrupulous job of the auto electrician presupposes a creative approach. William Gatti himself points that out.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 When I re-make an electric system, it happens that I put something of mine into it. It\u2019s to do with making improvements: adding something which doesn\u2019t attack the originality of the system, but which today is necessary to drive the car peacefully on the road and to have a minimal functionality. For example, the supplementary radiator vent. Or the emergency indicators.<\/p>\n<p>Yes\u2026 actually, it is an actual restoration, strictly speaking. The confines between artisanship and art aren\u2019t a wall, but a permeable membrane. Even when it is about restoring a car\u2019s electric system, rather than a painting or a fresco. William Gatti is aware of that. Even if maybe he doesn\u2019t know anything about the nineteenth-century squabbles between John Ruskin and Viollet-le Duc, about what (and how) is licit to restore, Gatti is the first one to pose himself the problem of the difficult balance between respecting the originality and adapting it to the passing time.<\/p>\n<p>A problem, which, with modern cars, has lost its reason of existing from the start. To the extent that at the end, I have a spontaneous question: in the world of serial mechanisation, where the human role seems to become less and less necessary, what is the role (and the future) of artisanship?<br \/>\nWilliam Gatti shrugs once more, with a peaceful smile.<\/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-1660 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=\"1110\" height=\"619\" src=\"https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Diapositiva5.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"William Gatti, Auto Electrician\" srcset=\"https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Diapositiva5.jpg 1110w, https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Diapositiva5-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Diapositiva5-768x428.jpg 768w, https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Diapositiva5-1024x571.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1110px) 100vw, 1110px\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4252\" src=\"http:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Diapositiva4.jpg\" alt=\"William Gatti, Auto Electrician\" width=\"1112\" height=\"594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Diapositiva4.jpg 1112w, https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Diapositiva4-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Diapositiva4-768x410.jpg 768w, https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Diapositiva4-1024x547.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1112px) 100vw, 1112px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 I believe that there is a future now and there will always be one. Classic cars are those which are made by artisans, both in terms of the bodywork (have you ever seen a metal sheet bent with a hammer?) and the electric systems made on a bench. \u00a0And then there are the interiors, made by the upholsterer who knows the car and restores it to what it was like originally. That is our job: a world of its own. It ends where electronics begin. The key difference is that modern cars are made in sequence. Which means that they will never become prestigious items: you will easily find spare parts for them, even in twenty-years\u2019 time.<\/p>\n<p>Whereas, classic cars are a whole different matter. If we take the door of a Merak e we try to mount it on a different Merak, you will notice straight away that it doesn\u2019t work. Classic cars are all different from one another, maybe even just in terms of small details, but this doesn\u2019t change things. For example, when I deal with a Miura \u2013 besides the three different models \u2013 I always need to consider the fact that, at the time, things worked differently than they do today. I mean, one could get up one morning with an idea, and put it into practice: just like that, based on his own idea!<\/p>\n<p>This is just to say that with classic cars you need to adopt a peculiar approach, which is a little broader: by taking into consideration the idea which went around at the moment of the construction. This is a general rule, not only for Miura, but also for Mistral\u2026 each car has its own history and it carries it with it, differently from modern cars. Just like a work of art.<\/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-1660 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=\"1042\" height=\"718\" src=\"https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Diapositiva1-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"William Gatti, Auto Electrician\" srcset=\"https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Diapositiva1-1.jpg 1042w, https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Diapositiva1-1-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Diapositiva1-1-768x529.jpg 768w, https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Diapositiva1-1-1024x706.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1042px) 100vw, 1042px\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\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-1660 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=\"1074\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Diapositiva2.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"William Gatti, Auto Electrician\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-7-4260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Diapositiva2.jpg 1074w, https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Diapositiva2-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Diapositiva2-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Diapositiva2-1024x686.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1074px) 100vw, 1074px\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-7-4260'>\n\t\t\t\t\tPic by Angelo Rosa\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m thinking about Walter Benjamin, who, nearly one hundred years ago, wrote his essay \u201cThe work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction\u201d, I wonder if Benjamin even imagined that today, the subject of the reproduction on series and the \u201closs of the aura\u201d, would have been applicable to classic cars too.<\/p>\n<p>But our chat comes to an end. Gatti goes back to the things which he cares the most for: his son who, (you can see it a mile off!) he\u2019s bursting of pride for, and his land, who he tirelessly continues to work every weekend.<br \/>\n\u2013 But, I mean, do you ever rest? This question comes spontaneously to me.<\/p>\n<p>He doesn\u2019t get perturbed by it. Of course\u2026 for William Gatti, working in the fields is resting: he allows himself a holiday while his wife takes care of the ninety-eight-year-old mother. There is no mention of great holidays, for now. \u00a0On the other hand, the countryside is there, waiting for him every weekend: it is always the same but yet, always new. With his grain, the sorghum \u2013 a round seed which is used to make feed for geese and hens \u2013 and of course, the vineyard. This is the land of Lambrusco, and William Gatti likes Lambrusco very much.<\/p>\n<p>With the exception of the manual picking of the historical vine in the new land, Gatti has arranged things as modernly as possible, and the picking of the grapes has been mechanised too. It is strange to think that this man &#8211; a living and breathing monument to the values of manual skills &#8211; has peacefully opened the doors to modernity and automatism in his fields. But maybe this is also an underlying prejudice. Past and present coexist with two historical tractors \u2013 one is a Landini and one is a Gualdi \u2013 which Gatti talks about as his pride and joy. And which maybe, act as a red thread between the world of cars and the fields.<\/p>\n<p>When William Gatti leaves, he gives me a jar of honey from his fields. \u201cIt is millefiori\u201d, he specifies. His father left him the hives after developing an allergy to bee stings, and he cares for his bees, and the fifty kg of honey that they give him every year.<\/p>\n<p>I look at him as he leaves, straight as a dime, proud of his cars, of his vineyard and of his protruding belly which he cultivates with the same care. \u201cOnce, they told me that anorexia is a bad disease. I do my best to fight against it!\u201d He smirks as he says that.<br \/>\nHappy, poised: a man who oozes electricity from each pore. There isn\u2019t anything nervous about him though: his flame is mature, tempered through the years. It is the ace in the hole \u2013 or the brand name \u2013 which distinguishes a common auto electrician from William Gatti. The <em>Electrofarmer<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>By International Classic, written by Martina Fragale<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/en\/exhibitor\/gatti-william-elettrauto\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Visit the shop window<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=&#8221;WE ALL HAVE A STORY, TELL US YOURS!&#8221; style=&#8221;custom&#8221; custom_background=&#8221;#990000&#8243; custom_text=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; shape=&#8221;square&#8221; size=&#8221;lg&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; button_block=&#8221;true&#8221; link=&#8221;url:http%3A%2F%2Flocalhost:10372%2Fracconta-la-tua-storia%2F|||&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The Electrofarmer \u2013 I\u2019m an electrofarmer. 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