Italian automotive customization firm Garage Italia, one of the more promising tuner startups of the last decade, recently unveiled its most ambitious project: the Dallara Stradale ‘PAN LX Anniversary’.
The Milan-based firm prides itself on a multi-disciplinary creative approach to design, and sees itself as a haven for the bon vivant as well as a creative corporate solutions provider. And the Garage Italia experience was developed to comprise a turnkey lifestyle; the company website puts it thusly: ‘Fusing lifestyle, craftsmanship and technology…’ The gourmet restaurant inside the company headquarters is perhaps more telling still.
Garage Italia takes on boat and plane customization as well as automotive tuning projects, so the PAN LX Anniversary commission was something of a natural for the firm. The client wanted to fuse the visual evocations of the G.91 modified F-86E Sabre jet into their Dallera Stradale; the result employs the plane’s livery flourishes—the three colored arrows that adorned its fuselage—and imbues the car with the spirit of the Frecce Tricolori patrol pilots who staffed the National Aerobatic Patrol of Italy from the early 1960s to the early 1980s.
Garage Italia’s website also cites the recent inspiration for the tuning job: a Zonda Cinque that was given a similar treatment by Italian exotic car designer Pagani in 2010—the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Frecce Tricolori.
