Giovanni Battista "Pinin" Farina (later Battista Pininfarina) (November 2, 1893 - April 3, 1966) was the founder of the Carrozzeria Pininfarina coachbuilding company, a name forever associated with many of the best-known postwar sports cars (especially Ferraris). Giovanni Battista Farina was born in Turin, Italy. The tenth of eleven children, his nickname, "Pinin" (little, in Piedmontese), referred to his being the baby of the family. Wikipedia
Twenty-seven-year-old Battista "Pinin" Farina was so curious about cars and how to design and build them that he traveled from Turin to the United States in 1920. www.autonews.com/files/euroauto/inductees/pininfarina2002...
In 1961, the President of the Italian Republic, acting on a proposal made by the Minister of Justice, authorized the change of his last name to Pininfarina in consideration of his achievements in social and industrial activities. www.pininfarina.com/index/storiaModelli/biografie/bPinin
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Battista Farina. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battista_Farina
