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GIORDANI

THE PEDAL CAR LEGEND (LIMITED EDITION OF 750 COPIES)

Gigi Soldano & Piero Pini

ISBN 978-88-7911-919-1

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Publication: 26 OCTOBER 2023
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ISBN: 9788879119191
Price: £80
Binding: Hardback

Format: 270 x 240 mm
Extent: 384
Illustrated: Hundreds in B/W & colour
Thema: WGCB Cars

English / Italian language

Comparative title: 9788879118613Lamborghini
Countach

Giordani's pedal cars represented an authentic dream for
more than one generation of children who, at the wheel of
Gigi Soldano is a sociologist who switched to professional photography in these extraordinary scale cars, were able to step into the
the late 1980s. Today he mainly works on sports photography. His passion shoes of their favourite drivers, even if only in their own
for toys, and specifically for Italian-built pedal cars, soon led him to backyard.
investigate and research them in depth: he focused on their technical and
historical background and studied them from a photographic point of view. Objects of many shapes and colours, masterpieces of a
Together with his friend Alberto Lavit, he published the first and now craftsmanship lost to us today, metal-bodied pedal cars tell
unobtainable book “Auto per Gioco.” His motto as a photographer is: “A a unique and unrepeatable story, one traced in this
shot is not only about technique, it’s also about conveying a feeling”. invaluable book from their origins to the dawn of the 1970s
Piero Pini, a former technical automotive gas system components when plastic overwhelmed the world of toys, just as it did
designer, is now a “collector of collections” with his wife. Above all, he is to the rest of society.
interested in children’s pedal-powered toys, which he collects and studies
from a functional and constructive point of view, thanks to his impressive This book – which sold out its first edition and is still much
and unique documentation. He prefers Italian firms, especially Giordani, sought after by collectors – is an authentic journey back in
and is an important reference point for enthusiasts and collectors. time with hundreds of documents and photographs, in
colour and black and white, together with a painstaking
historical reconstruction written by in-depth connoisseurs
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without notice. 01/08/2023