Enrico Nardi, or better, engineer Enrico Nardi, although he did not achieve the notoriety of other four-wheel 'greats', gave and left an imprint on his era.
His is an enthralling story, full of behind-the-scenes stories, whispers, friendships that were sometimes whimsically original, sometimes important in business terms.
Nardi, an engineer and a man of fine intuition and great practical sense, applied his multifaceted genius to everything that, in some way, could be linked to the automobile and this brought him into contact with the great pioneers of motoring.
Like Vincenzo Lancia, one of the first to believe in Nardi's skills and to want him at his side with increasingly important tasks and responsibilities, from test driver to his trusted man.
An inexhaustible passion for four-wheelers and a great talent pushed him towards a career as an entrepreneur with a varied and original production, which at first took the form of his cars and components, and later of his famous steering wheels.
Nardi. A Story of Cars and Steering Wheels, published in 1987, describes all this and much more.
Contents:
- the "Nuvolari" of engineering who wanted to manufacture steering-wheels with special cherry wood.
- The exciting diary of an adventurous life.
- Baghetti recalls a triumphant Reims in 1961 with the heat, his cunning and the terrible Porsches.
- "A shy, courageous and ingenious man who was a one-man show".
- "The hill-climb record which made the Italian champion green with envy".
- Ferrari tells why Paul Frère asked to have his Le Mans steering-wheel.
- Why Nardi steering-wheels became fashionable.
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