The Ferrari Pinin Sedan Concept Car for sale (without my interior)

Robin Capper

09 Oct 2011 — 2 min read

I was interested to see reports that the 1980 Ferrari Pinin Sedan concept is going to be sold.

Ferrari Pinin Concept to be auctioned in London - www.eurocarblog.com

1980 Ferrari Pinin Concept, the one and only sedan with a Ferrari badge ever made, will soon be up for auction. This outstanding one-off was built to celebrate designer Pininfarina 50th anniversary… (continues with Ferrari Pinin Concept photo gallery)

1980 Ferrari Pinin Four-Door Sedan Concept up for Grabs – Carscoop

I first saw the Pinin in Car Magazine, which I have been buying since late 1979. It made quite an impression on me and (in a very distant way) possibly played a part in kicking off my “career” in drafting, design, and CAD.

High School Tech Drawing: “The Forty Hour Project”

High School Technical Drawing (as today’s “Design & Technology” was then called) was a subject I enjoyed. Part of the Fifth (or Sixth?) Form requirement was a “Forty Hour Project”. You could choose any subject but had forty hours allocated to come up with a pencil drawing set documenting something reasonably complex. I think plan & elevation plus perspective/isometric were required.

I did a concept sketch for the Pinin interior loosely based on the concept car but with a rather BMW (or maybe Giugiaro pod dashboard ala Uno, Piazza) inspired instrument binnacle. I also had most of the centre console controls folding flush when the car was not in use (like the current Jaguar XF/XJ?). It was a design decision but also avoided drawing a lot of ellipses (without guides in those days) for all the buttons!

Hard to see but this is the best I could get. 1980’s pencil on an A1 sheet hard to shoot!

Plan & Elevations

My Ferrari Pinin Dashboard (40 Hour Project)

Isometric, think I got an exemption to use ink for the LEDs!

Going to Tech on a Pinin?

This project was part of my application portfolio for the Product Design Diploma at Carrington Tech, now Unitec. I didn’t expect to be accepted (was happy to go back to Seventh Form High School & try again) but was. Who knows if the Pinin dashboard played a part in this but I suspect it did. A year or so later at we had to do a quick pen/pastel sketch exercise, any design, so I did another version of the Pinin interior (below).