Practice Makes Perfect?
The controversial Rolls-Royce Camargue designed by Pinninfarina and was release in 1975.
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In fact it was designed in 1970 at Pininfarina not by Sergio, but by Paolo Martin. These are his actual design sketches.
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And also his renderings dated 1970.
![](http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/1362/3474/1600/182130/Camargue.Sketch.jpg)
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It is a car that I, personally, really like, and spotted many in the 1980's here with this as an example.
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It does seem however, that Paolo Martin at Pininfarina did a bit of a University standard, and handed in the same assignment for multiple classes, with just a little tweeking, to try and confuse the professors.
Let's take a look at the 1969 Fiat 130 coupe.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_fZDzRbVQE4wSWBVHLfql6HAb5bDqfQN6mXPL7so-A3uYPMpPOJQ9kTWOiBO3GWMV19zboHmIT2OWZQYL0jL8DPDseo89Oj20dRKYQNp_jCNymQrsO4xuubqPDyF_NMYlpBR5/s640/Fiat+130+coupe-739483.jpg)
And the 1976 Ferrari 365GT 2+2 / 400GT.
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Get the picture?
Now also there is a lesser known example, it must have been a minor class at University or some detention homework for re-submitting his work multiple times.
It is a 1969 Mercedes-Benz 300SEL 6.3.
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Only one was made.
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I hope Rolls-Royce got a good deal on an updated old design.
Ferrari definitely got the left overs in 1976.
(posted by David Irvine)
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