BATTISTA FARINA

Battista Pinin Farina, founder of Carrozzeria Pininfarina, at his Turin workshop

The Italian Who Walked Away From Henry Ford Detroit, 1920. The Rouge plant was still being built but Highland Park was already running flat out, churning out Model Ts at a pace nobody in Europe could match. Henry Ford himself sat down with a 27-year-old visitor from Turin and offered him a job. Stay in … Read more