ARRIGO PERINI - 21.10.32 RIVA DEL GARDA:
 

I feel embarassed and at the same time flattered in remembering my father, who passed away on 29.09.2001, because he certainly had a genius for creativity.

With the classical "hammer and block" he always managed to model plates as he wanted, and he also praised the classical "plate-worker", a figure which has now almost disappeared.



  The Course:

His talent allowed him to build handmade vehicles: from the first Coupè 600 (’55), to the Spider (’60) to a small train for the seashore of Senigallia and later for the gardens of Riva del Garda; until he built, in 1966, a small special car called "Scoiattolo" (squirrel), with the engine of the Fiat 500, which could "climb" basically every mountain-road. In the ex Caproni workshop in Arco, through the help of 27 workers, he built a "Scoiattolo" a day.

 

After the big success of this model, he broadened the production creating the "Super Scoiattolo", a vehicle with much higher performances and an aggressive body.

His creation surely reached a huge success, characterizing the 60es in such an important way, that it was necessary to ask for contributions and financial supports.

He never got them anyway, since during his life he always found people who never helped him to continue the production of his "creature".

     

 




  Shop's Origin:
 
   

 

In 1983 he founded the "Workshop Perini Bros.", which became an individual shop from 1987.

The tradition and the innovation, the care for the particular still continue today, in a modern workshop of design… and the legend goes on.

   

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