Medardo Fantuzzi (1906–1986) was an Italian automotive engineer, known for his Carrozzeria Fantuzzi body workshop.Nunzia Manicardo, Medardo Fantuzzi from motorvalley.it
Fantuzzi was born in Bologna in 1906. In 1939 he and his brother, Gino Fantuzzi, established Carrozzeria Fantuzzi. They started an affiliation with Maserati when they got involved in building the Maserati A6GCS (44 built 1953–55),The Maserati A6 Part II from maserati-alfieri.co.uk53 Barchetta from 53barchetta.com Maserati 350S and Maserati 200S.Maserati Tipo 200SI from maserati-alfieri.co.uk Later, Medardo worked for Ferrari until 1966. He built the Pininfarina-penned Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa Spyder Fantuzzi (1961)Ferrari Racing from extractando.com and one-off Ferrari 250 GTE and a Ferrari 330.Ferrari 330 GT Fantuzzi from classicdriver.de
Medardo's Carrozzeria Fantuzzi designed the spyder bodywork for the gold and black colored one-off 1964 model Ferrari 330 LM s/n 4381SA that Terence Stamp drove in Federico Fellini's "Spirits of the Dead" motion picture from 1968. The workshop refitted the original 330 LM body in 1978.4381SA in barchetta.cc.
Fantuzzi also built, in the early 1960s, an OSCA Barchetta 1500cc 372FS for one of their mechanics. He also worked for De Tomaso, Scuderia Serenissima, AMS and Tecno. His son, Fiorenzo Fantuzzi,Marcel Massini, Cavalino Classic XII from ferrariownersclub.co.uk is still involved with the factory.
Fantuzzi died in Modena in 1986.
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