[DeTomaso] Dennis Fugnetti RIP...

[Larry Stock]

Best said, only coming from Scott

On 1/31/20, 7:40 AM, "DeTomaso on behalf of Scott Mead Photography" <detomaso-bounces at server.detomasolist.com on behalf of scott at scottmeadphotography.com> wrote:

    Such sad news. I’ve know Dennis since I was a kid. I have vivid memories of Dennis, blasting past my grandfather and I, on a trek to Monterey in the ‘80s - twin turbos at full song. He was an amazing photographer, and one of my inspirations to shoot vehicles myself. His sense of lighting, scale and design is unparalleled. He could make an ugly duckling look like a prince, and a Countach the lust of every boy that could afford a poster. His rear-quarter shot of a Lamborghini Miura that was posted last year, captured the complete essence of the car in a single shot. 
    
    Aside from being a fantastic shooter, he was true car guy and one of the nicest people I’ve ever met. RIP, Dennis. Keep those turbos spoiled at full song. 
    
    
    Sent from my iPhone
    
    >> On Jan 29, 2020, at 1:14 PM, Mike Drew via DeTomaso <detomaso at server.detomasolist.com> wrote:
    >    All,
    > 
    >   Those who were around in the 80s may remember the name Dennis Fugnetti.
    >    He was a well-known fine arts automotive photographer in Southern
    >   California, who owned an exquisite twin-turbo Pantera. He produced
    >   several posters featuring his car (one inexplicably including stylized
    >   representations of a polished Mangusta wheel?), and his car was
    >   featured on the cover and inside the first really fine book on the
    >   marque, Panteras For The Road by Henry Rasmussen:
    > 
    >   [cid:ABB23469-668F-4040-BBCB-D55370791076-L0-001]
    >   [cid:C26B6DC1-4F99-4A95-8849-A4C416ACC38F-L0-001]
    >   [cid:EAC00BF7-F951-40B3-AAD5-1FBB3B1C97F3-L0-001]
    >   [cid:7CF1991B-0F9C-4ED5-BB89-DD0E5954A82F-L0-001]
    > 
    >   Jeff Maxwell informed me the other day that Dennis has passed away. His
    >   business lives on, shared with his daughter:
    > 
    >   [1]https://www.fugnettiimages.com/page/about2
    > 
    >   I only met him once, at Concorso Italiano long after he sold his
    >   Pantera. He was much younger than I was expecting him to be, not all
    >   that much older than me. He was also extremely friendly and personable.
    >   My condolences to his family for what has to have been an untimely
    >   passing. :(
    > 
    >   I once found his old Pantera rotting at a used car lot in Monterey,
    >   sitting outdoors. This was in the early 1990s. The beautiful polished
    >   engine looked like crap as the elements had taken their
    >   toll--everything was corroded.  I took it for a test drive and it ran
    >   like crap too.  The turbos weren't dialed in so it ran terribly, then
    >   spectacularly overheated and blew its water all over the place. We
    >   barely made it back to the dealer.  It had been a fine car when he
    >   owned it, so it's sad the subsequent owner or owners really let it fall
    >   apart.
    > 
    >   It was later bought by a Silicon Valley guy who retrofitted a standard
    >   motor, then quickly tired of it and sold it to buy a Ferrari 308 from
    >   the divorcing Lee Majors and Farrah Fawcett-Majors. I then lost touch
    >   with it. I think it's still floating around in So-Cal?
    > 
    >   Spare Dennis a thought each time you admire his timeless poster, which
    >   many, many of us have hanging on our walls.....
    > 
    >   Mike
    >   Sent from my iPad
    > 
    > References
    > 
    >   1. https://www.fugnettiimages.com/page/about2
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