1940

Few weeks after the end of the war Pinin Farina starts the production with the Lancia Aprilia Bilux.

Italy, a defeated country, is excluded from participating in the Paris Motor Show. Pinin and his son Sergio set off from Turin for France driving two new cars, an Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 S and a Lancia Aprilia cabriolet. When they reach the Grand Palais in Paris they park the two cars in front of the entrance of the Motor Show, where anyone going in or out can see and admire them. It is a great success, commented on by the French press: ”Ce diable de Farina a ouvert son antisalon personnel”.

“Running Sculpture”, first car in the world permanently displayed in a Museum of Modern Art, namely the MOMA in New York, as ”one of the eight outstanding cars of our time”: the Cisitalia, realised on tubular chassis and manufactured in limited series with aluminium body welded to a skeleton of fine sheet steel, has a design which marks a decisive turnpoint of the automotive style.