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So, now let’s use these five minutes
to tell I story I have that would take,
I don’t know, like three hours to tell the things that were built.
Regarding my life, I mean,
what I would study, I wanted to take architecture,
then I didn’t want architecture anymore, I wanted law school,
because my father was a professor at college,
and it got a bit complicated.
I really liked motor racing,
I was really interested in all that.
In 1963, I had begun to race with Willys-Oveland,
with the Willys race cars, and then later,
I was racing with a team from DKW-Vemag,
racing their cars,
and also, I had the opportunity to meddle in the building of cars.
And it all grew from that. I’m a designer,
I photograph, I paint... That’s the life I lead.
So, it’s a bit hard for me
to tell you all , of this I see here
in a very small timeframe.
Here, for example,
This farm is a Chimbó family,
of the Malzoni family.
and I had the opportunity to create an automobile,
and later manufacture this car, in addition to designing it.
So, drawing on paper was a very simple thing.
I thought I had to build those wire things,
like I did with toy airplanes,
we used those wooden ones...
Yes, here it is mixed...
- The one in the middle? - The one in the middle is being designed.
Ah, great!
It's something very interesting.
When I was in this farm--
And this here, below, is Chimbó, who made cachaça, in the Malzoni family,
I asked Rino Malzoni, Genaro,
to lend me this Volkswagen platform so that I could
not only design but also use these wires
that would create a tridimensional model.
So, it all happenned very quickly, and with a very efficient result,
because at the time, there were no ergonomics at all.
So, to me, this was an unforgettable job,
because this was made during part of a morning.
We started at 8 or 9 a.m. and at noon it was ready.
This could become an automobile,
all it took was covering it, so they could make a mock-up.
But it was an exercise.
This Carcará is another car
I was involved in, I designed this body, which is a streamlined,
that established this back in 1960,
on a road that leads from Rio de Janeiro to São Paulo,
or from São Paulo to Rio de Janeiro,
today that is Recreio dos Bandeirantes, that region.
This car has a one-liter engine.
Right here it is racing in Interlagos
on a straight line, to measure the performance.
The speed it reached, with the one-liter, three-cylinder engine
the DKW has, was a speed of 218.903 km.
Buggy! This buggy was also something that...
received american magazines...
this was the dune buggy, to drive on the sand.
So, this is Kadron’s first buggy, they bought the project.
Evidently it was meant to drive on dunes, since Brazil has a huge coast,
this was the ideal car for all the Brazilian coast.
This car was also created by Rino Malzoni,
I created these various designs for Quatro Rodas mag,
so the reader, who bought the magazine, could vote.
But there was no real voting, because the car was already under construction.
But... no... that was tactics, Abril held a contest...
It’s true!
I mean, each magazine that came out
featured another design, which was more interesting,
to increase magazine sales.
But the truth was that the original, the one that had appeared, was almost ready.
And until the voting ended...
Three cars were drawn.
And the people who had the right numbers won the automobiles.
This design is a design we raced with. With the Karmanguia Porsche.
The body-- My knowledge was very...
I had no problem in creating a fiberglass body.
The car was much lighter, and its engine was very interesting.
And powerful.
This car won almost every race it took part in.
And this is the Hollywood team.
It was the first Brazilian racing team with the single spot race cars,
Germany’s Porsche 908.
And these are the kart guys.
And up there, that’s a bench.
It’s a bench you used to place the body on.
You got in and you were on driving position.
This other car here, on the left, was a car that could “change outfits”.
That glass back there could simply be removed,
and then it became a little pick up truck.
Look at this one.
This is the speed, I have to take it, this speed of the thing.
A table.
Let’s go! Let’s go!
But now, I have mastered this!
This is a table my daughter got when she got married, last April.
She asked me to design a table for her.
So, I tried it, doodled a lot,
I had design number 1, number 2, number 3, number 4, number 5, number 6.
And I couldn’t do it.
Furniture is a bit far from me.
And there came a time when I was like:
“Ah! I can’t work with these straight lines,
a table with four legs, I need to let it go,
I have to do something like this, I’ll just draw it at once.”
And as my work advanced,
from that reaction, this butterfly was my vision.
And I was like: “Look at that”.
So, a worked a little bit on it,
and this is an interesting table,
because it has a 19 mm glass, and a 1.8 m diameter, which was precisely--
My daughter wanted a dining table for eight people.
So, I really studied the dimensions,
and this was made with a router, who worked on it,
and I supervised, working on the surface of the wood.
This wood’s called Sellow.
This kind of work--
I had already worked with furniture, back in the 1960s,
but then I stopped.
This work is interesting
because at this moment, I can only make them
when the production is like...
10 tables every six months. You know?
Because the stripping work, to make the surface nicer, is very--
Let me see what else...
This is a car we made back in 2006.
It went to the United States.
It was the obvious, a car based on another car I’d made for Dacom.
There I am, in that part,
here...
Then, three young designers.
And this was a 3-seat car.
The interesting thing is that it had...
No, don’t do that...
Tha’ts it!
Look! 00!
I’d like to thank you for the round of applause I was promised.