#Mario Felice Boano

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Lancia Aurelia GT (B20), 1955. The coupé version of Lancia's flagship saloon was designed by Mario Felice Boano and built by Maggiora. It was named after a Roman road: the Via Aurelia, connecting Rome to Pisa and was one of the first series production cars to powered by a V6 engine.

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Fiat 500 Savio Elegance Spider 

In the late 1950s, Avv. Giovanni Agnelli commissioned Mario Felice Boano to build the first car to be used at the sea or lake as a 'tender' from the boat to the house. The first Spiaggina was born. Boano made two very famous examples, one for Agnelli and the other for Onassis (whose photo with Churchill in the car is very famous). The following year the Carrozzeria Boano was transformed into the nascent Centro Stile FIAT and Felice Boano became its director. Following this, the car's design and subsequent production were handed over to Carrozzeria Savio. Once transferred to Carrozzeria Savio, the car was renamed 'Spider Elegance'. It was a great success and soon established itself as a viable alternative to Ghia's famous Jolly, as the concept was similar but the Spider Elegance was also able to stand out as it had its own shape different from that of the production car. The design was continually updated with improvements, until the last version presented in 1965 where a folding roof appeared along the lines of the typical convertible.

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Endless summer: 1963 Fiat 500 Elegance by Savio

Felice Mario Boano, one of the most famous Italian coachbuilders of his time, was the first – while working at Ghia – to propose the ‘Spiaggina’ version based on Fiat utility vehicles. These special versions, without a roof and hood, were intended to be used as tenders for the wealthiest individuals of the time who needed a practical vehicle to use once they descended from their yachts. Of…

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Alfa Romeo 1900C SS Coupe Speciale (1955)

Designer: Mario Felice Boano

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Square styled early Fiat 1500 saloon (1961 until 1967) designed by Felice Mario Boano at Centro Stile Fiat

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The Ferrari Boano 410 Superamerica was designed by Felice Mario Boano  an Italian automobile designer and coachbuilder. He worked for Stabilimenti Farina in Turin before joining Pinin Farina in 1930. The 410 was a  revised version of Ferrari's 375 America and for many, it was the ultimate Grand Touring car of its day - its rare.

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Volkswagen Karmann Ghia Type 14 (1972) – Carrozzeria Ghia: Luigi Segre and Felice Mario Boano and others; 1972 update by Sergio Sartorelli

My dream car. It was designed to be a sporty version of the Beetle. Production ran from 1955-1975. 

Image source: Autoevolution

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Alfa Romeo 1900C SS Coupe Speciale (1955)

Designer: Mario Felice Boano

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Fiat 8V Berlinetta Rapi - 1953 by Perico001 Ex-Works Coachwork by Rapi - Fiat Chassis no. 000032 Displacing just under two liters, the Tipo 104 motor V8 featured an unusual 70° architecture, as well as advanced racing components such as a finned aluminum sump, forged crankshaft, polished intakes and ports, and tubular 4x1 stainless steel exhaust manifolds. As Giacosa later noted of the V-8 in his autobiography, "the idea of mounting it on a sports car for a small production run was attractive and aroused the keenest interest among the design engineers." And so was born the Fiat 8V, which featured the only overhead-valve V-8 that Fiat ever built during its long and storied history. Known in Italy as the Otto Vu, the new model was positioned as a luxury grand touring sports car.To maintain the necessary quality-control for such a high-end product, the fabrication of the chassis was farmed out to Giorgio Ambrosini's Siata, the tuning specialists that had long served as Fiat's in-house competition and customization department. This choice was probably further facilitated by Ghia owner Mario Felice Boano's 1950 hiring of Luigi Segre, a former Siata sales manager, as Ghia's sales director. The Otto Vu made its public debut at the Geneva Salon in March 1952, and immediately impressed all who saw it with Fiat's ability to produce such a jewel-like automobile. Over the following two years, about two hundred tipo 104 motors were produced (though more than fifty of these were eventually installed in the upcoming Siata roadster). The Otto Vu automobile was even more rare, with approximately 114 examples built through 1954. While at least forty of these cars were bodied with the factory coachwork by Rapi, the other chassis were clothed by coachbuilders such as Balbo, Pinin Farina, Vignale and Zagato. The 8V Rapi Corsa presented here was delivered new in Milan where it was owned and raced by Scuderia Ambrosiana. The car was fitted with lightweight body and sliding windows, it was raced in the 1953 Mille Miglia finishing 18th overall. Sold to Vincenzo Aurricchio in 1954 and it participated again in the Mille Miglia that same year where it didn’t finish. Zoute Concours d'Elegance The Royal Zoute Golf Club Zoute Grand Prix 2016 Knokke - Belgium Oktober 2016 https://flic.kr/p/NhBLJk

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Looking back a couple of years for #frontendfriday to this #Type34KarmannGhia. The round, Chrysler-inspired regular K-G is a familiar site in the USA but the #Type34 was never sold here. A few have trickled in over the years, however, as cars were easy to import in the 1960s and many American VW fans wanted something just a little different. The same is true of the Type 3 Notchback. There were actually three different Karmann-Ghias in the 1960s, the original, the type 34, and the Brazilian type 145 “Touring Coupe,” which looked like a blend of a Frua Glas GT and Porsche 911. The most unusual one, though, was Sergio Sartorelli’s Type 34. Born in 1928, Sartorelli was always fascinated with cars and trained as an engineer at Turin Polytechnic before working for Felice Mario Boano and later Luigi Segre at Ghia. Life at Ghia was a dream come true for him, and he was soon involved in many projects, mostly for Fiat and VW but also creating custom Chryslers for Saudi Arabian Sheikhs. Two of his earliest production projects were the Fiat 500 Jolly and the Type 34, the prototype of which was done in early 1960. Underneath it was essentially a Type 3 1500, but with it’s rakish bodywork and healthy increase in speed from the regular K-G, it was a desirable car, albeit one with a high price. Only VW’s Westfalia campers cost more in the showroom. The razor-edged sides and slim, elegant greenhouse were unmistakable, and it came with many features unheard of in regular VWs, like a power sunroof. Few luxury customers were after a VW in the ‘60s, but like the other Type 3s, the 34 was an effort to move VW beyond economy vehicles. Never explicitly a “sports car,” the Type 34 was aimed at a sort of personal/luxury car market, buyers who might previously have had a Borgward Isabella Coupe or Renault Caravelle. The car's high price and lack of availability in VW's largest export market meant relatively low production; ~42,000 were made from 1962 to 1969. A complex body with lots of sculpting and many different welds, the larger Ghia proved to be a prolific ruster, and since all the panels were unique to the Der Große Karmann, repair was not an easy task. Survivors are rare now. (at Group 2 Motorsports) https://www.instagram.com/p/CK69Z9QlXfr/?igshid=ps4841zvygbw

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1955 Alfa Romeo 1900 CSS

This one-off Alfa Romeo 1900 CSS was first presented by designer Gian Paolo Boano, son of Boano's founder Felice Mario Boano, at the 1955 Turin Motor Show. It is similar to the Boano-bodied Alfa 6C 3000 CM of Argentinian president Juan Peron.

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@Regranned from @carofthecentury Volkswagen Karmann Ghia 1955–1974 Designer: Felice Mario Boano @Regrann «Franz Briones» - #regrann — view on Instagram http://ift.tt/2AfBiUd

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Lincoln Indianapolis (one-off). 

With its sextet of faux, side-mounted exhaust pipes, proboscis-like front end and aircraft-style wraparound screens, the one-off design study looks eye-poppingly futuristic even today – so imagine how extreme it must have seemed when the wraps were first pulled off it at the Turin International Automobile Show in 1955.As is often the case with such ‘concepts’ the design was created in double-quick time, flowing from the pen of Gian Paolo Boano, the talented 20-something son of the celebrated coachbuilder and former Ghia boss Felice Mario Boano. Boano senior only founded Carrozzeria Boano in 1954, but Gian Paolo had an ex-Ford friend who suggested that, if the Boanos could create a dramatic and futuristic design based on FoMoCo underpinnings, it might serve as a starting point for establishing a potentially lucrative arrangement between the fledgling firm and the giant manufacturer.

Gian Paolo was thus handed a Lincoln chassis – Lincoln being Ford’s luxury marque – and set to work creating large-scale sketches that he and the carrozzeria’s skilled craftsman brought to life using a combination of steel tubing and sheet metal. The hugely exaggerated hood was flanked by suitably long wheel arches (or ‘fenders’ in U.S. speak) that each held twin stacked headlamps and culminated in shrouds from which those fake exhaust tips ostentatiously protruded.

The feature was balanced by forward-facing air vents set into door-mounted cowlings that flowed seamlessly into the rear wings which, in turn, book-ended a sloping tail that made the roof seem even more ‘canopy’ like to reinforce the design’s aviation influences.

The 2+2-seater ‘cockpit’ was trimmed, chequered flag-style in black and white and featured a wraparound dashboard and bucket seats separated by a prominent, stepped centre console. And, just to make sure Boano’s futuristic creation didn’t go un-noticed, its already dramatic bodywork was finished in a coat of flaming orange paint.

With Carrozzeria Boano being based just a few miles west of Turin, it was an easy job to get the freshly-finished, freshly-named ‘Indianapolis Exclusive Study’ to the 37th Salone dell'Automobile, where it wowed the crowds and provided visiting motoring journalists with ready copy. Auto Age magazine even made it the cover star of its November issue, teasing its readers with the tantalising caption: “Is this the next Lincoln?”

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One of few: 1956 Alfa Romeo 1900 Primavera by Boano

It has been a long time since we have seen a 1900 Primavera on sale, probably also because less than 300 were produced.

  There is another peculiarity that characterizes this special model: it is one of the few models made by the Boano Lavorazioni Speciali bodywork in its three years of activity, founded in ’55 by Felice Mario Boano immediately after leaving Ghia. Indeed, the 1900 Primavera was…