founding until 1963. Following Cavalieri's departure in 1963, Drogo and Marchesini were joined by Otello Benedetti (ex-Scuderia Ferrari), Mario Allegretti (ex-Reparto Corse Maserati) and Egidio Bonfatti (ex-Carrozzeria Mariani), all of whom had stakes as financial partners in the company. Marchesini left the company in 1969, followed by Benedetti in 1970. Other Carrozzeria Sports Cars employees included Franco Bacchelli, Roberto Villa, Darles Bussetti, Elis Garuti, Walter Giusti, Ivano Ferri, and Edmondo Meletti. Design and fabrication methods The portfolio of car body designs produced by Carrozzeria Sports Cars cannot be attributed to a single person. While some sources attribute the designs to Piero Drogo, he was not a skilled body fabricator or designer. It is likely that the craftspeople employed by the carrozzeria had equal or greater influence to Drogo on the original designs produced by the carrozzeria. It was common practice among small auto body manufacturers during the period to work out design details "by hand" during the fabrication process. For many designs executed this way, the end product was the result of collaboration and improvisation during the fabrication process, without an individual designer or fixed schematic. Many of the C.S.C. original designs borrowed design elements from other vehicles such as the Ferrari 250 GTO and 250 LM, synthesizing these various inspirations in order to improve aerodynamic performance and satisfy their clients' aesthetic sensibilities. In addition to these original designs, many C.S.C. bodies were designed by clients and made to order, such as the Scuderia Ferrari-designed 330 P4 and Giotto Bizzarrini's Iso A3C and 250 GT SWB Breadvan. These designs could vary widely in style. For example, the angular bodies that Mario Tadini designed for a 250 GT SWB and a Jaguar E-type contrast sharply with the curvaceous Ferrari-designed racing cars, even though both were built by C.S.C. craftsmen. All automobile bodies constructed by Carrozzeria Sports Cars were fabricated using to the traditional, handmade techniques that were common in small Modenese carrozzeria from the post-WWII period through the 1960s. At the beginning of the fabrication process, the workshop constructed full-size wire framework in the shape of the body to be built, called a filon or manichein. This was used as the reference for the final design, and often replaced any schematics or models for those bodies designed in-house. Body panels were then individually cut and shaped using hand tools and shears, benders, rollers and mechanical hammers. Once the panel shape matched