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At Pininfarina, in the late sixties there were quite a concentration of design talents that would become renowned world-wide in the following decades: Aldo Brovarone, Leonardo Fioravanti, Paolo Martin, Filippo Sapino, just to mention a few. Each of them delivered a number of masterpieces and a least a successful design for Ferrari.

It was an undeclared confrontation between Sapino and Martin that led to two outstanding Ferrari show cars: the 1969 Ferrari 512S Berlinetta Speciale and the 1970 Ferrari Modulo.

Both cars were originally conceived a couple of years earlier but Sergio Pininfarina and his brother-in-law Renzo Carli could not make their mind about which of the two proposals from Filippo Sapino and Paolo Martin they should approve for actual construction. Eventually they decided for the 512S only to give the green light also to the Modulo a year later.

Through decades the show-car that has resisted the test of time best and continued to stimulate the imagination of young enthusiasts has been the Ferrari Modulo. Hundreds of young designers have taken inspiration from the Modulo and drawn their own interpretation. The most famous among all the emulative efforts is the 2005 Maserati Birdcage 75 by Ken Okuyama who often conceded he decided to become a car designer when he was a child and saw the Ferrari Pininfarina Modulo at the Osaka World Fair.

Forty years later an Italian enthusiast and illustrator, Aldo Cerri, has proposed on the internet his own vision of the 2010 Ferrari Pininfarina Modulo.

2010 PAOLO MARTIN “ENZO MODULO” SHOW-CAR

2010 PAOLO MARTIN “ENZO MODULO” SHOW-STRADALE.

His work attracted the attention of Paolo Martin, the designer who actually did the original 1970 Modulo. He was so pleased to see that after such a long time there still is people that dream about his Modulo that he decided to have some fun himself and do his own “2010 Modulo”. The intriguing trick of his new design is that it is greatly inspired to a couple of sketches Martin did in the late sixities (1967)

for the Pininfarina Modulo.

The outcome is here to be seen. With the addition of the theoretical “Stradale” derivative of the virtual 2010 Ferrari Enzo based “modulo” by Paolo Martin.