Pininfarina Battista

Giovanni Battista Pininfarina was an Italian automobile designer and the founder of the Carrozzeria Pininfarina coachbuilding company, a name associated with many well known postwar cars.
Giovanni Battista Farina was born in Cortanze, in the region of Piedmont. The tenth of eleven children, his nickname, Pinin , referred to his physical resemblance to his father Giuseppe, and in later years it also referred to his short stature of 5 feet. He started working in his brother Giovanni Carlo's body shop at the age of 12, and it was there that his interest in cars was born. He stayed at Giovanni Carlo's Stabilimenti Farina for decades, learning bodywork and beginning to design his own cars....