Gigi,
… the last thing that i could even say to you
is that you never indroduced your friends to me …before flying away …
I got the fortune to met them and i want to tell you
that they are all fanastic, all….extremely beautiful !
I had no doubt anyway that … beside a great person … only the great, the greatest wonderful people
as they are, could stay !
“ Gigifriends guys… i love you all, you are really great because you make me feel like one of you…
Thanks, Roberto
Why we are celebrating Gigi
organizing car meeting and racing…
Luigicarlo (Gigi) has been cars, motors and racing enthusiast.
Since he was a baby, his dream has always been to become a pilot, a race car driver…
He was always playing his games wearing a Ferrari red racing suite…
Often i was watching him tuning his little pedal-car toys, his car models… he did not watch tv, cartoons or other kid toys…he was always preferring to stay with me in my garage…smelling oil,grease and …engines…." perfumes" !
He was trying to help me whenever i was fixing some cars…
Spanners and screw-drivers was bigger than his little hands….
He really wanted to learn car repairing….
Just only the engine sound fill his eyes with joy, smiling… whenever he could see a car, particularly Lancia Delta 4wd
and that day i gave him a small but real go-kart, he was touching the sky with his finger…
When i look him driving that kart…i realize that a new pilot was born !
Mum was so worried so we had to sell the go-kart and Gigi had to wait some years before start driving a real car…
an old Citroen Dyane… ( a real rubbish) that I was letting die in a corner of the garage garden….
One day, Mario Bianchi, one of the best Porsche expert , Gigi’ s preferred one,
came to my garage with his white beetle cabrio…
Gigi was just fourteen years old and he took an occasion of my absence for driving that cabrio.
He told me about this, just after having done it ...
and I try to show my disappointment but i couldn't really because I was very proud of this circumstance !
From that moment, Gigi was taking each single occasion for driving every car that was arriving in the garage.
For my job I was always driving to England and around Europe.
Sometimes, Gigi use to come with me and this has been really good
because we had long time for talking, for driving lessons, for situation understanding and so on….
Our travels need to be quick even if they were really long…
I remember that one night, coming back from London after a long week full of duties,
i was driving my Sierra Cosworth 3 liters, 4 wheel drive …a powerful car…
and just out from the P&O ferry, at Calais, I was feeling so sleepy and he , sixteen, looking at me said:
dad, do you want me to drive ? you are tired…better you take a sleep…
It was the way how he spoke to me
it was that this particular motorwause to be always desert...
that with any doubt, I let him drive…
i had no panic but i was trusting him a lot.
Don’t tell me please that I was wrong..i did it because I was trusting him 300%
even he was not having the age to do it and the driving licence…was just a dream...
He was driving for more than 300 km. and he gave me the steering wheel at Reims
just because day light was coming and he was scaring to meet some police patrol on the way…
This has been our secret for long time… probably I have been crazy…but
if you should ask me now, if I would let him drive again in the same situation,
for sure I reply yes I would like to let him drive again.
18 years old birthday arrived, the official driving licence arrived,
he started driving a white Fiat Panda, then a metallic-gold Y 10 and finally myRange Rover,
sometimes, during my absences, my London taxi cab full of his friends... even if this was prohibited from me.
He did good and bad thinghs ... as all the guys of his age and we all have done …
But keeping his brain switched on all the time … always smiling to evrybody...
many friends of mine, including my customers, was appreciating his style.
That afternoon when he asked me to use my car because
that night he should meet Francesca the girlfriend …
I gave him my Alfa Romeo station wagon keys …
Bloody bastard car….
he was asking me the car just because it was clean and full of fuel….
because there was the stere cd player fitted and he wanted to get smart with the girl....
I told him not to come back home late …that 19 march was father’s day ….
He replied to me smiling as usual... " dad I will not be late,
but you know that we celebrate friendship day … we are friends dad as first … do not be worried…
eight p.m sharp i will be with you...
.... that fucking winding road.. only two kilometers from home…
... that bastard shot...
… Gigi i was waiting for you …………………
… from that eve, ...I am still waiting for you, Gigi…
I love you ! ...you will be always in me !
Dad
19 march 2003
I met you just after the tragedy… i have to say that you all are beautiful and we was living our tragedy … together!
together we immediately decided to create something for Gigi's memory....
How many days, nights, we spent to organize something great for him ....
we spent hours and hours together and the first classic car meeting became a reality !
i cannot forget our meetings in the kitchen... twenty, thirty people smoking cigarettes and with the big tequila bottle sent from Antonio Bottello from Guadalajara ....Tequila was evaporating as the black label carried from our mate
Sarkis Sassounian from Los Angeles...
What a fantastic beetle meeting we organized without any skill, only with a strong wish...to deeply make something where all our soul have to be...
it has been a great, a wonderful moment for him…for our Gigi..and at the end of that day…tears was falling
from all our eyes… and we promised each other to keep going on organizing better and better meetings for Gigi.
Thanks Gigifriends
Thanks to Erika, our “ logo” designer, thanks to Valeria who made the beautiful Gigi portrait…
Thanks to Paolo (sizzo), Federico (brad pitt ),Umberto (bargio), Marco (olce), Fabio (biondino), Valerio (tano), Andrea (mero),Simone (bari), Lorenzo ( giro), Simone (zambo), Matteo (belloni),Diego (carenzi), Davide (panigada),
Corrado ( zanetti ), Battista e Roberto ( bellani), Mario ( paiunin), Michele (mazza), Gianluigi (castellini)
thanks to the beauties Francesca, Clara, Luana, Fabiana, Paola, Silvia, Sabrina, Giada, Olga.
Thanks to the “new entries” of the Gigifriends group: Balda and Silvia, Alberto,Marco,Andrea,Davide,Giancarlo,Massimo and Beppe.
Thanks to the people i am not remembering here.... to everybody who will cooperate just being our supporter
to help us in organizing the annual classic car event to remember our Gigi…
Roberto and Nuccia