This letter regards the strange 1971 Giannini Fiat 128 NP S Sport Coupe in Obscurati. My belief is that this car has nothing to do with Adolfo Melchionda, even if chronologically it sat between two true Melchionda creations for Giannini: the Fiat 500- based Sirio 650 of 1969, built by Piero Drogo’s Carrozzeria Sports Cars of Modena, and the 1972 'Trimarano' built on a Fiat 850 platform. All three cars were shown at their respective Turin Motor Shows.
I have had regular contact with the Melchionda family over the years and, even if a lot of his old papers are missing, nothing ever appeared regarding this 1971 128 coupe, nor it is remembered within the family. What's more, Mario Morselli in a contemporary Auto Sprint article attributed the car to Guglielmo de Negris, a designer from Pisa.
Melchionda collaborated with Giannini in great part thanks to the fact that his wife, Giannini's Consigliere Delegato and shareholder Volfango Polverelli's wife were friends since childhood days.
JUST GIANNINI
This letter regards the strange 1971 Giannini Fiat 128 NP S Sport Coupe in Obscurati. My belief is that this car has nothing to do with Adolfo Melchionda, even if chronologically it sat between two true Melchionda creations for Giannini: the Fiat 500- based Sirio 650 of 1969, built by Piero Drogo’s Carrozzeria Sports Cars of Modena, and the 1972 'Trimarano' built on a Fiat 850 platform. All three cars were shown at their respective Turin Motor Shows.
I have had regular contact with the Melchionda family over the years and, even if a lot of his old papers are missing, nothing ever appeared regarding this 1971 128 coupe, nor it is remembered within the family. What's more, Mario Morselli in a contemporary Auto Sprint article attributed the car to Guglielmo de Negris, a designer from Pisa.
Melchionda collaborated with Giannini in great part thanks to the fact that his wife, Giannini's Consigliere Delegato and shareholder Volfango Polverelli's wife were friends since childhood days.