Porsche 356 Carrera Speedster Zagato Comes Alive from Lost Designs
Petrolicious takes you through the story of Zagato’s Sanction Lost program and the Porsche 356 Carrera Speedster Zagato.
Well-known automotive design company Zagato recently turned 100. The current CEO of Zagato, Andrea Zagato, is the third generation of the family to be at the head of the table running the company, and he believes that his company has made 440 designs in its 100-year history.
Of that lot of 440, not all of the cars have survived. They are referred to as “the lost designs,” but they are not lost forever. Zagato started a program aimed at retracing and reproducing early lost designs, giving them new life and calling them “Sanction Lost.”
“We decided to retrace the creative journey and history of design of this company,” said Zagato.
In a new video by Petrolicious, Andrea Zagato and Petrolicious CEO Afshin Behnia let viewers virtually experience Sanction Lost via Behnia’s very own Sanction Lost Zagato. Through the special relationship Behnia and Petrolicious have with Zagato, Behnia was offered one of the Sanction Lost Porsche’s, but not just any one.
Zagato’s plan was to recreate nine lost designs and they even had the blessing from the Porsche Museum to do it. Behnia’s would be the prototype model not counted in the nine. The blessing from the Porsche Museum would be key as many photos and sketches of the original designs are held in the archives at the museum. From those photos and sketches, digital models were made. As Zagato said in the video, that is the only contemporary tool used in building the Sanction Lost cars.
Regarding why Zagato was only doing nine designs,”Normally one would expect an author, writer, sculptor, or painter to do an artists proof and then produce nine copies of that proof. With nine copies destined for collection we decided to restrict ourselves in not producing more, even if the interested clients numbered far greater.”
The cars aluminum was hammered by hand and they even recreated the original assembly process the same way it was done in the 1950s. The result is the work of art you see in the video.
The video ends with a visual montage of the Speedster driving through the mountain side by Behnia. “It is more than enough to put a million smiles on your face,” Behnia praises.
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