Inside Ferrari is a rare book inside the Ferrari factory at how the world's greatest automobiles are engineered and constructed. From the beginnings of Scuderia Ferrari in 1929 to the founding of Ferrari Automobili and through to the current Ferrari factory of 1990, this is the first in-depth look behind the walls ... written and photographed in cooperation with the Ferrari factory.
Inside Ferrari is a history of the cars as never before told, based on the remembrances of the men who were there ... world champion driver Phil Hill, engineers Gioacchino Colombo and Carlo Chiti, race shop employee Bob Wallace, photographer Jesse Alexander and others. More than 220 photographs chronicle the race shop, assembly lines, coachbuilders such as Pininfarina and Scaglietti, parts subcontractors, foundry, test tracks and the cars.
This is an examination of a work of art ... Ferrari automobiles ... from the viewpoint of the creative engineering process, maintaining that to apreciate the cars totally, one must also understand the engineering of form and function. This is also an examination of an artist ... Enzo Ferrari ... providing new insight into the artist's life and his expression of genius and inspiration.
Author and photographer Michael Dregni dispells some Ferrari myths and discovers new ones --- drawing new conclusions and relating fresh anecdotes --- all adding significantly to Ferrari history and putting you truly Inside Ferrari.
Inside Ferrari has been very interesting reading. It's the first book I've read on Ferrari that says it all ... and will be of great interest to Ferrari lovers.
Inside Ferrari is a history of the cars as never before told, based on the remembrances of the men who were there ... world champion driver Phil Hill, engineers Gioacchino Colombo and Carlo Chiti, race shop employee Bob Wallace, photographer Jesse Alexander and others. More than 220 photographs chronicle the race shop, assembly lines, coachbuilders such as Pininfarina and Scaglietti, parts subcontractors, foundry, test tracks and the cars.
This is an examination of a work of art ... Ferrari automobiles ... from the viewpoint of the creative engineering process, maintaining that to apreciate the cars totally, one must also understand the engineering of form and function. This is also an examination of an artist ... Enzo Ferrari ... providing new insight into the artist's life and his expression of genius and inspiration.
Author and photographer Michael Dregni dispells some Ferrari myths and discovers new ones --- drawing new conclusions and relating fresh anecdotes --- all adding significantly to Ferrari history and putting you truly Inside Ferrari.
Inside Ferrari has been very interesting reading. It's the first book I've read on Ferrari that says it all ... and will be of great interest to Ferrari lovers.
