Race car tuners form a very important part in the history of motor sport: they lay the foundations for victory or defeat. Not just mechanics but much more: real characters from a novel in some cases.
And Virgilio Conrero is precisely one of these, a self-taught man, one who worked during the day and attended professional schools in early 20th century Turin in the evening. Fiat Aviazione as starting point and teacher of life, Cisitalia and friendship with the brilliant Savonuzzi to take flight.
Years spent learning to talk to "horses", used to become great, first with Alfa Romeos, then with Opels. In rallies and on track. Virgilio Conrero, the "Mago" as he did not like to be called because - he used to say - "Ho lavorato e studiato e imparato, non sono uno stregone" (I have worked and studied and learnt, I am not a wizard), was probably the greatest Italian tuner of the post-war period, from the "roaring fifties" to the threshold of computer age.
Virgilio Conrero L'uomo che parlava ai "cavalli" has 192 pages and hundreds of b/w and colour images.
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