The story of Zagato Milano
The 1910s: Aeronautics Ugo Zagato was born in Gavello, near Rovigo, on June 25, 1890. He began his coachbuilding career in 1919 when he…
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Porsche 356 Coupé Sanction Lost
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When approached in 1957 by Porsche racing driver, Claude Storez, Italian carrozzeria Zagato agreed to build a special aerodynamic body for his 1957 Porsche 356 Carrera Speedster. Leaving Zagato’s Milan workshops in the latter half of 1958, the body was finished in white, featuring a single-piece curved windshield with red longitudinal fins on the rear wings. Once the body was complete, Zagato shipped this car back to Stuttgart, where Porsche fine-tuned the mechanics and then delivered the car to Storez.
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The driver entered his Porsche-Zagato into a stage race of the Tour De France Automobile in September 1958. It is believed that Storez finished in 2nd place in the GT race at Reims, behind Olivier Gendebien in his Ferrari 250 GT TdF; a side-shot photograph of Storez in his “139”-numbered Porsche-Zagato from this outing remains one of the select few of this car in circulation. Storez subsequently entered his highly competitive Zagato-bodied Porsche 356 in a French rally in February 1959. Tragically, however, he was killed in an accident on the last stage of the rally, and his Porsche-Zagato disappeared after the wreck was cleared from the track. Decades later, a prominent American collector, Herb Wetanson, approached Zagato and commissioned a Porsche-Zagato 356 Speedster identical to the car driven by Storez car. Zagato termed this recreation as ‘Sanction Lost’, and the Speedster was dedicated to marking the 60th anniversary of Porsche’s founding. The term ‘Sanction Lost’ is used by Zagato in this instance—rather than the “Sanction II” descriptor often applied to carefully researched continuation cars created by their original builder—as the original Porsche-Zagato has never been found. Using the latest photometric technology, Zagato was able to scan original photographs of Storez’s car to render an accurate digital design of the body. While Zagato searched their archives, however, they discovered a concept drawing for a Zagato-bodied Porsche Carrera Coupé dated 11 September 1959. It was decided that alongside the nine units built to commemorate Storez’s Speedster, that nine examples of the Coupé would be manufactured. All 18 of these cars were built using genuine Porsche 356s as donor cars, though only one Speedster and two Coupés were fitted with Carrera engines. Just like Storez’s car, the Speedster and one of the Coupés were finished in Bianco Gardenia with Red highlights on the iconic Zagato tailfins, matching the original colour scheme of the Storez’s Speedster.
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