PietroFrua (2 May 1913 - 28 June 1983) was one of the leading Italian coachbuilders and car designers during the 1950s and 1960s. Frua was born in Turin...
FRUA or Frua may refer to: AC Frua, a British GT built by AC Cars from 1965 to 1973 PietroFrua, Italian coachbuilder and car designer Families for Russian...
precarious state of the company finances. The AC Frua may be confused with the very similar looking PietroFrua-designed Maserati Mistral. However, only the...
encouraged Kalikow to approach PietroFrua, who had styled and built the AC Frua—a car generally similar in concept to the Mirage. Frua said that he would make...
two-seater coupé with a body designed by PietroFrua in Turin. Some of the Monteverdi's details continued features of Frua's earlier work, with notable similarities...
(1972–1973). Styling was by Pelle Petterson under the tutelage of PietroFrua when Frua's studio was a subsidiary of the Italian carrozzeria Ghia, and the...
generation — as a rear-engine, rear-drive open two/four-seater designed by PietroFrua of Carrozzeria Ghia, using the floorpan and engine of the Renault Dauphine...
Alemán to build and sell customized cars. Heiderich contracted with PietroFrua to produce a new body on a Porsche 914 platform. The car, named the Vizcaya...
Longchamp as the base to save the development costs of the new model. PietroFrua was commissioned by De Tomaso to undertake the restyling of the Tom Tjaarda-designed...
Montefeltro, and Luigi Segre took over. Ghia then brought in PietroFrua, appointing Frua as head of Ghia Design (1957–60), designing the Renault Floride...
street, rather than competition use. These were bodied by Pinin Farina, PietroFrua, Ghia, Bertone, Carrozzeria Allemano, Zagato, and Vignale. These have...
commissioned two-door and four-door redesigns from Francis Lombardi and PietroFrua respectively. These were first shown in November 1960, at the Turin Auto...
1906 to 1928 before he in 1930 established what became Pininfarina. PietroFrua worked here from 1928 to 1939 before starting his own company. Up until...
task of styling the Quattroporte was given to Turinese coachbuilder PietroFrua, who drew inspiration from a special 5000 GT (chassis number 103.060)...
produced the AC 428 Frua on a stretched Cobra 427 MK III coil spring chassis. The steel body was designed and built by PietroFrua until 1973. (EF/EFX...
by Trevor Fiore, of Carrozzeria Fissore, although some sources credit PietroFrua. A second car was made with a longer wheelbase and minor detail changes...
six-cylinder engine and styled by PietroFrua. In 1963, the company's first saloon was launched, the Quattroporte, also styled by Frua. If the 5000 GT inaugurated...
of the spyders built were right hand drive. The body was designed by PietroFrua and first shown in a preview at the Salone Internazionale dell'Automobile...
Stefan Dierkes. "British International Motor Show: Locations and Dates". Pietro-frua.de. Retrieved 17 January 2014. "Olympia Beauty - Home". olympiabeauty...
Geneva Motor Show Lamborghini Chrysler V8 Faena 1978 Turin Auto Show PietroFrua V12 Athon 1980 Turin Auto Show Marc Deschamps / Bertone V8 LM001 1981...
appeal to wealthy customers. AC contacted the famed Italian coach builder PietroFrua to design an appealing GT body that could be fitted on a MKIII Cobra...
Head of Opel at the time and was keen to produce the car, commissioned PietroFrua to advance the concept and produce two road-going prototypes. In 1971...
chassis designed by Chief Engineer Michel Têtu with fibreglass bodywork by Frua. Four different engines were used at different times - two versions of the...
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