About Carrozzeria Vignale

Alfredo Vignale was born in 1913. As a seventeen-year-old boy he already worked for Stabilimenti Farina, then managed by Giovanni Farina, the older brother of Pinin. He became an all-round technician, and his first steps in coachbuilding only started in his mid-thirties, when he traded an old motorbike for a Fiat Topolino. The coachwork of the Topolino was so rusty that Alfredo decided to give it an aluminium body. A second body for a Topolino was made, and this one even got attention from the English ‘Autocar’ magazine.

In 1948 the Carrozzeria Vignale was founded at Via Cigliano, Turin. It became a well-known Italian coachbuilding company. Vignale designed and built cars for Ferrari, Maserati, Lancia and many others.

Alfredo Vignale also started producing cars under his own name. In 1961 he opened a factory near Fiat’s Mirafiori factory in Grugliasco/Turin. (The Vignale logo shows the famous church in Turin.) In this factory a whole range of Vignale cars was produced using conveyor-belt production methods.