Osella – history 2018-05-30T12:54:04+02:00
A young Enzo Osella laying on the family pickup truck Lancia 3RO and already seems to indicate what will be on his way.
Top: Enzo Osella at the start of the circuit of Cesenatico of 1962; below, in full action with his Lotus while, on the opposite page, bounced back to Bologna-Raticosa of the same year.

Vincenzo Osella was born just outside Turin on a hot morning of August of 1939, eight days before the outbreak of World War II, as you often remind himself. Papa Luigi and Maria run a delicatessen and a small trucking business to change, the country where they live.

For little Enzo, his sister Christina of ten years older and his parents, the war turns out all in all less dramatic than the reality of many other families; "I got lucky" Debuts Enzo, "as a child I never go hungry and indeed, the Delicatessen of the family during the war offered the option of eating in almost any country."

The hostility to Luigi Osella comes the need for a major change as radical, give to your business of grocer industrial footprint or as an alternative a complete change of address. Luigi decides for the second option and sold the charcuterie and the transport company buy a garage with attached workshop and Carwash in Via Guastalla 14 in Turin, just below the "Mole Antonelliana". “

Our House had a dramatic story hidden within its walls; during the bombing had been hit by a bomb which did not explode. The owner of the building taken by fear temporarily moved elsewhere and soon the House sprang into the air, killing those who still lived there.

So he decided to discard it and bought my father that the restructured completely; We moved them toward the end of the years ' 40. To me that while I cultivated a kid already unbridled passion for mechanics, it was as if I had come to the land of toys, a workshop always available to me and a chance to fumble between engines, gearboxes, transmissions and the most varied technology then offered thanks to cars of customers who were standing in the garage.

Of this enormous opportunity will unfortunately expenses my desire to study, so much so that I struggle to remember how many free revisions was forced to make Papa Luigi, the cars of my professors, to allow me to grab the diploma of surveyor! " Finished the school year Enzo Osella goes to work at his brother-in-law's Domenico Bechis sand pit for a couple of years, but not before he made his debut in the race. All this happens by a customer and friend of the family, the printer via Guastalla "Cino" ....

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Read the whole story of Enzo Osella

through the pages of the first chapter of the book '' origins '' by Gianni Tomazzoni (Enzo Osella-Schena Editore)
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