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Tonight I sat next to and BS'd for hours with the guy who painted this car in the 80's up in Chicahhhhhhhhhgo.
Sorry for the tiny pictures, they're all I could find.
Farina (Italy)
" Gian-Battista Farina [1895-1966] a.k.a Pinin or "the little guy", younger brother of Giovanni, Italian automobile designer and coach-builder, started working for his brother then branched off on his own. In 1920, at the age of 25 he spent 2 months in the USA, of which 50 days in Detroit. Fifteen years later, in 1930, at the age of 35 he founded the Stabilimenti Pinin Farina located on Corso Trapani in Milan. Farina designed many bodies for the Cadillac chassis including, in the first year of operation, a unique boat-tail speedster on the Series 452 V16 chassis - largely inspired by a Hispano Suiza speedster with a boat-tail body by Gallé - for the Maharajah of Orccha; that car has survived and is presently (2000) in the USA where, in my opinion, it was unfortunately over-restored.
The Farina car was commissioned by the Maharaja of Orccha, one of the princely
Indian states before the country freed itself from British rule in 1947
In the early sixties the car was acquired by a Pakistani film director, Sheikh Mukhtar.
He had the car starring in a movie (photo above) in which he played the role of an Indian Maharaja
Restoration in the eighties "over-restoration" by Fran Roxas, Chicago, IL in the black."
Sorry for the tiny pictures, they're all I could find.
Farina (Italy)
" Gian-Battista Farina [1895-1966] a.k.a Pinin or "the little guy", younger brother of Giovanni, Italian automobile designer and coach-builder, started working for his brother then branched off on his own. In 1920, at the age of 25 he spent 2 months in the USA, of which 50 days in Detroit. Fifteen years later, in 1930, at the age of 35 he founded the Stabilimenti Pinin Farina located on Corso Trapani in Milan. Farina designed many bodies for the Cadillac chassis including, in the first year of operation, a unique boat-tail speedster on the Series 452 V16 chassis - largely inspired by a Hispano Suiza speedster with a boat-tail body by Gallé - for the Maharajah of Orccha; that car has survived and is presently (2000) in the USA where, in my opinion, it was unfortunately over-restored.
The Farina car was commissioned by the Maharaja of Orccha, one of the princely
Indian states before the country freed itself from British rule in 1947
In the early sixties the car was acquired by a Pakistani film director, Sheikh Mukhtar.
He had the car starring in a movie (photo above) in which he played the role of an Indian Maharaja
Restoration in the eighties "over-restoration" by Fran Roxas, Chicago, IL in the black."
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