Last Friday, during a public auction at the Court of Turin, Mrs. Bertone bought back the car collection of 70 specimens designed by her husband. She paid 2,200.000 euros, while Giorgetto Giugiaro offered 2 millions. The cars 'll stay at the Bertone museum in Caprie, near Turin, in the building beside the Bertone design center. The 6 show-cars (Zero, Sibilo, Testudo, Marzal, Athon and Bravo) auctioned by RM at Villa d'Este in May are in private collection actually.
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Lilli Bertone, the car auction and the "betrayal" of Giorgetto In the chic bars of Turin and between fans of the automotive topic of discussion this weekend, about the effort that Lilli Bertone made to keep with them 70 historic cars parked in the museum dedicated to her husband Nuccio.
The tenacious Lady has paid 2.2 million to win the auction which was attended - and many here were surprised - that Giorgetto Giugiaro favorite student just Nuccio. Giugiaro accasatosi a year Volkswagen has dropped the first raise. In Turin, the participation of Giorgetto has raised concerns and questions. "Never Bertone's widow would have imagined that you are against Nuccio's protégé," says a family friend. Who knows what was his plan. Keep the "treasure" or take it as a tribute to VW in Wolfsburg?
__________________________________________________ _________ The cars go home Nuccio Bertone Lilli blows to GiugiaroThe widow has secured 2.2 million paying the collection. Seventies vintage cars in the museum that will end in view of the centenary of Caprie bodySTEFANO WORD
There was still a piece of the tormented story linked to Bertone. Administrators who have the destiny to be sold over time, the factory Allamano (with Fiat) and the brand (at Lilli Bertone, widow of Nuccio, that the man who brought the company into vogue). But still had to sell the last piece, ie the collection of historic cars which the company owned. Tuesday the story ended: the prized cars were auctioned and the highest bid was found to be the one of Lilli Bertone. Spending that has put 2.2 million hands of 70 vintage cars were born from the pen of her late husband. But it was not without a purchase of twists. Because in front of the notary has submitted another question, represented by his attorney: Giorgetto Giugiaro. The designer from Turin has had in fact offered 2 million for the collection. But when Ms. Bertone has raised the threshold of 200 thousand euros, the lawyer has given up explaining that it is not allowed to raise. Lilli Bertone was disappointed we did not expect competition from Giugiaro, who began to draw the first sketches car right under the aegis of her husband and that the company also designed a few models. "I do not know what he would do, but there were none of his cars," said the widow, who for more than a year was put back on track recasting the Bertone and making no more than a manufacturing
but design and engineering. Mrs. Lilli, however, does not hide the satisfaction of having put his hands on 70 cars: "Next year will start the celebrations for the centenary of our company and I want to put this museum, housed at our headquarters in Caprie, available to all" . The future museum will not, however, boast low Valsusa of five of the most beautiful models in the original collection, which were auctioned at Villa d'Este this past spring and ended up in the garage of Russian and Arab millionaires. Their offers were unattainable for Lilli Bertone, but there can be no defeat. To celebrate its first century of his company has already prepared a new piece to add to his collection: a brand new prototype, to be presented at the Geneva Motor Show in 2012.
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