Marks und Classic Driver by Marcello Gandinis Keilwunder in Munich

The Automobilwelt hat in those years is a legend lost, as the einflussreiche Autodesigner Marcello Gandini on the market in 85 years verstelb. As a young designer in Bertone-Studio Gandini has created a sports car of the 1960s and 1970s, which the Lamborghini Miura and Countach, the Maserati Khamsin and the Lancia Stratos uses. The Italian super sports car is part of the Maestro from Turin with modesty, but is one of the most influential cars with the BMW Garmisch Konzeptauto and the first BMW 5er, the Citroën BX and the Fiat X1/9. Marcello Gandini, who was aware of the geometric design movement, has long influenced the shape of the cars and fell on the fuhrende designer who was very inspired.

On September 13, Marks & Cars and Classic Driver of Erbe Marcello Gandinis and the Ära des Wedge-Designs with a tribute installation at Marks Feinkost in Munich and a selection of Gandinis great creations: Where BMW Classic was lost and geschlich revived Garmisch Concept and the first to inspire the BMW 5er, Audi Tradition from Ingolstadt no longer traveled with a shining Audi 50 – a car, of the non-fallen era, that is von Gandini was designed – and, under the futuristic Audi Quartz. The show car from the year 1981 was not by Gandini, the son of Pininfarina, who was strongly of the Wedge-Design-Movement of the harmful Zeit-influence.

The cultural creations Gandinis for Bertone have put together a private collection and enthusiasts from Marks & Cars: Dirk Rumpff from the Flitzer Club and Stephan Sigrist from the einflussreichen Denkfabrik Wire both came from Zurich in matching green Maserati Khamsin and Ferrari 308 GT4 Dino, while local Marks Mitstreiter Christophe Schmid from Weekend Heroes noticed local Gandini Einhörner – a silver Lamborghini Miura S, the perfect Lamborghini Diablo GT and his Bugatti EB110 in an elegant color.

Kurz said: Marcello Gandini has found the prototypes of both 1990-Jahre-Supersportwagens, but is not waiting for the final designs. The Tributa-stellung which had a beautiful orange color at Alfa Romeo Montreal, a Lamborghini Espada and a Maserati Quattroporte IV was great – it was one of the most fantastic results of the work of the design masters.

Where Gandinis spoke big credits on the street, the inner von Marks in Rahmen were one of the current programs of the current and the ideas of designers on the automotive development and the creative culture in general. As moderator of Design Talks were Classic Driver CEO J. Philip Rathgen of the fuhrendenontwerper and creative designers, together with Tobias Krengel, BMW designer and mitbegründer of The Hofmeisters, the Audi designer Stephan Fahr-Becker and Marco dos Santos the inner architect Robert Stephan .

After the first Ausgabe of Marks & Cars began to grow in the course of the years of the Munich Auto Industry, the second Ausgabe, spoke the car culture in the positive and safe atmosphere of their lives. One of the temperature and rain wars that the city’s motorists need are one of the most famous car brands on the Kufsteiner Platz.

Together with BMW Design Chief Adrian van Hooydonk, the fascinating design style of Garmisch will be heading back, while racing legend Karl Wendlinger will be taking in a gold version of the Formula 1 from the 1990s. Keildesign follows, parking an orange BMW M1 and a black Ferrari Testarossa alongside the spirited front-ends in the form of two yellow Ferraris, a Daytona and a Dino, last played by a certain Elton John. In the meantime, Munich has proven itself over time as a treasure trove for collector cars, with a beautiful, mid-size Mercedes 300SL Roadster and a white Porsche 911 2.7 RS braving the pouring rain. BMW M wählte Marks & Cars as a platform, one of the Petrolhead Community brand new M5 Touring prototypes.

Another story is that Grund zum Feiern: Marks Feinkost, das von Cornelius Dornier and his Geschäftspartner Kaspar Triller are involved, who in those 60s. Geburtstag. The renewed Feinkostgeschäft and Bistro on the Kufsteiner Platz in Munich was in 1964 in Türen – over time, as the young Marcello Gandini Nuccio Bertone zum ersten Mal um eine Ausbildung bat. After all, Marks is a Munich Institution, a Soul for Feinschmecker and Genießer der feinen Dinge des Lebens – and a Meeting Point for the living Sammlerautoszene der Stadt.

The Marks & Cars events that Dornier and Triller can call upon in their lives and use their machines for a few late summer afternoons together. Classic Driver was inspired to support the Marks & Cars event to the second Mal as a media partner – and we could discover it, with the planning of the next trip in the coming years to begin.

Photos: Stephan Bauer for Classic Driver © 2024