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2005 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance to Celebrate Alfa Romeo, Pininfarina

Pebble Beach, Calif., 2005-02-08 (WDB). ...The 55th annual Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance will have a distinctively Italian flair: Alfa Romeo and Pininfarina are being honored at the Aug. 21 event. “The 95-year history of the (Milan, Italybased) Alfa Romeo race cars and street cars is remarkable, and the vehicles are of utmost importance in the collector car world,” said Pebble Beach Concours Co-Chairman Glenn Mounger. “We’ve chosen to celebrate everything from the full array of pre-World War II classes to postwar custom coachwork, and we expect to be hosting the most significant Alfa Romeo collection anyone’s seen in quite a few years.”

Of special interest will be the display of Alfa Romeo B.A.T.s (Berlinetta Aerodinamica Tecnica). “We’ll be hosting the complete collection of B.A.T.s, which are considered some of the most inspired designs of the last century,” Mounger said.

Like Alfa Romeo, the name Pininfarina is synonymous with many of the world’s mostsignificant automobiles. Founded by Battista ‘Pinin’ Farina in 1930 (his name was officially changed to Pininfarina in 1961 by the president of Italy) “it became the most influential and successful design house in history and has revolutionized automotive styling,” said Mounger. Battista Pininfarina died in 1966 and was posthumously inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame in 2004.

His inventive legacy is shared by his son Sergio, who joined the Pininfarina Group in 1950, becoming president in 1966. “Sergio is an incredibly talented, gracious man who’s one of the living legends of automotive design,” said Concours Co-Chairman Sandra Kasky. “We’re honored to celebrate the ingenious and alluring work of the Pininfarina family, and we’re proud to have Sergio participate in our awards ceremony at the 2005 Concours

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