Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera
Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera is an Italian automobile coachbuilder. Originally established in Milan in 1925, Carrozzeria Touring became well known for both the beauty of its designs and patented superleggera construction methods. The business folded in 1966. In 2006 its brands and trademarks were purchased and a new firm was established nearby to provide automotive design, engineering, coachbuilding, homologation services, non-automotive industrial design, and restoration of historic vehicles.
1938 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900 Mille Miglia from the Ralph Lauren collection
Touring-bodied Alfa Romeo 6C2300B
BMW 328 Touring Coupé
Alfa Romeo Disco Volante at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show
A coachbuilder or body-maker is a person or company who manufactures bodies for passenger-carrying vehicles. Coachwork is the body of an automobile, bus, horse-drawn carriage, or railway carriage. The word "coach" was derived from the Hungarian town of Kocs. A vehicle body constructed by a coachbuilder may be called a "coachbuilt body" or "custom body".
Ash body frame ready to be clad in metal mounted on a Morgan 4/4 chassis
The coachbuilder's wooden frame fixed to its replica Bentley chassis
Original 1930 Bentley Speed Six Gurney Nutting coupé
Portugal 18th century