Attic Find

[TheBender]

Grabbed a ride from my dad to pick up my car from my mechanic after a yearly once over for the great Spring Driving in Texas. On the way we had a conversation about the days when he was working for GM and visited the Fiat guys in Turin. Stories of staying at the Asti Spumante mansion with wine tastings all night, where he could barely stand in the elevator afterwords and the Italian guys simply drove home.

Then the conversation turned to something the guys had given him as a gift. A sketch of some sort of factory as he remembered. He even thought he might have it stored up in his attic somewhere and wanted to know if I had any interest in it. Well duh

So the following week I dug around in his attic and found it. Wow, it is a hand sketched drawing of the original Fiat Corso Dante factory (via 1899). From the information on the sketch it looks like they commissioned an Italian artist C. Molinari in 2000 to produce 30 sketches. I have #14 of the set.

With a little google magic, is how I figured out the information about which building it is, then took a little virtual google maps drive around the area and found the portion of the building he sketched. I also found an original picture of the building tying it all together. Here are pictures of the sketch and the other things I came across that I thought might be interesting to some....

[joelittel]

Very cool. Tell your dad thank you for saving it all these years.

[sonosml]

wow! that is amazing

[F16Waldo]

Impressive history and back story! Thanks for sharing.