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DE TOMASO
PERMANENTLY OUT OF STOCK
From Buenos Aires to Modena: The History of a Visionary in
the Automobile Industry
By Dr. Daniele Pozzi
Translation from the Italian text by Andrea Cittadini and Alessandro Saettta Vinci
The first illustrated and complete book on one of the top
marques of the Olympus of automotive history, written in collaboration with the
de Tomaso family.
The volume traces the sporting and entrepreneurial story of
Alejandro de Tomaso, exhaustively illustrating the characteristics of the
models that have made the
Automobili De Tomaso famous around the world, such as
the Pantera, truly a cult object, especially in the United States. Many different
dimensions are interwoven in de Tomaso’s story: the world of the gentlemen-sportsmen
who animated the motor-racing competitions in the 1950s-1960s, the genuine and
somewhat ‘provincial’ charisma of the artist-mechanics of the Modena area, and the
story of the great American industrial dynasties and the intricate developments
of the Italian automotive industry.
The book is born from the collaboration with the de Tomaso
family, who for the first time have opened the private archives of the founder
of the auto maker, making available to the public at large the private
photographs, the historical images of all the models and the technical
drawings, revealing the secrets and the behind-the-scenes episodes of a
legendary production. To further enrich the book an ad hoc photographic
campaign will be realized. The texts in the volume, rigorous yet accessible to
the non-expert, will be entrusted to a scholar of the history of this Italian
business, while the technical section will be written by a team of sports car experts
chosen together with the de Tomaso family.
DE TOMASO
Alejandro de Tomaso arrived in Modena in the years of the
economic boom: in that period the district we now refer to as Motor Valley was
born, thanks to the genius of figures like Enzo Ferrari, Adolfo Orsi (Maserati)
and Ferruccio Lamborghini. De Tomaso was one of the great protagonists of that
season, first as a driver, then as a constructor of cars destined to an elite
of lovers of high-performance sports cars. But he was also an ambitious
entrepreneur, capable of dealing with the great magnates of the US car industry
‘on a par’ (he was a partner of the Ford family) and to stand as a credible
interlocutor for the revival of many Italian car industries in the 1970s
(Maserati, Innocenti, Moto Guzzi, Benelli).
- 280mm x 310mm
- 240 pages
- Over 200 images (drawings, historical photos, photos of car
models)
- Now Available!
- Click here to view sample pages
FACEBOOK FEED:
VSCC
Spring, 2016
Classic & Sports Car
March, 2016
Octane Magazine Book Of The Month
May, 2016
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Author Biography
Daniele Pozzi teaches Economic and Company History at the LIUC – Universit. Cattaneo (VA), where he is also chair of the course on Heritage & Competition, as part of the international course degree in Made in Italy: Management and Entrepreneurship. Since 2001 he has been vice-director of the Archive of Industrial Cinema and Corporate Communication, a research centre for which he has dealt with the realization of numerous initiatives of an informative and scientific nature, as well as the preparation of teaching and multimedia materials. He is the author of a number of articles both in Italian and international magazines, and of books on Corporate History.
Translator (to English Text)
Andrea Cittadini is a journalist, writer, and a communication/PR/marketing consultant based in Monza, Italy. He started working as journalist in 1985, while still attending the University of Milan where he earned a PhD in Political Sciences. Upon graduation, he worked for Yamaha, Ferrari and Maserati as Chief Press Officer until mid-2011 when he formed his own company, The Kerb Group, which includes the magazine Kerb Motori. Andrea has written two prize-winning books, Capolavori italiani dalla collezione Lopresto, (Italian Masterpieces from the Lopresto Collection), and Il Libro delle Corse, Maserati, (The Racing Book, Maserati), and has three others in preparation concerning aspects of Maserati history.
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