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Pietro Frua (2 May 1913 - 28 June 1983) was one of the leading Italian coachbuilders and car designers during the 1950s and 1960s.
Pietro Frua (Torino, 2 maggio 1913 – Torino, 28 giugno 1983) è stato un imprenditore e designer italiano, uno dei più noti designer automobilistici italiani del Novecento
May 12, 2024 · The Fiat 1100 C Frua Barchetta from 1946 was the first creation of the Turin coachbuilder. It was a matter of patience. By 1944, Frua had opened a small, artisan-focused coachbuilding shop and two years later he presented his first creation commissioned by Fiat, a 1100 C that won second place at the Villa d’Este Concours d’Elegance.
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Feb 26, 2024 · Pietro Frua, born on May 2, 1913, in the automotive hub of Turin, Italy, would go on to become one of the most esteemed and influential automotive designers of the 20th century. Raised in a modest family, with his mother Angela working as a tailor and his father Carlo as a Fiat employee, young Pietro was surrounded by the burgeoning automotive ...
car designers in the 1960s. The car designer and coachbuilder Pietro Frua, who built some of Italy’s most beautiful cars without achieving the fame of the likes of Giovanni Bertone or Battista “Pinin” Farina, was born on this day in 1913 in Turin. He is particularly remembered for his work with Maserati, for whom he designed the A6G and ...
According to the Turin newspaper “la Stampa” he was the “custom car designer”. Literally born inside Fiat in 1913 - his father worked in the factories - his car designing talent was clear to see from a very early age. At the age of 22 he was already the manager of the style centre of Stabilimenti Farina.
