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2006-12-07 08:17:03 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Car Makes ➔ Porsche
Congratulations BILL....you are very specific and very RIGHT!!
Now here is mine:
On May 25th,1923 as my nonno(granfather) recalls, Enzo Ferrari won his race at the Savio track, near Ravenna, the parents of Francesco Baracca, approached him, and the mother, Paolina Baracca, presented him with the emblem (heraldic device..lol) saying<<"Ferrari, take this.Put it on your cars and it will bring you Good Luck" >>...Cavallino Trampante..Prancing Horse....
2006-12-07 09:10:17 · update #1
During 1923, while driving and winning at the Circuit of Savio at Ravenna, Ferrari was introduced to Count Enrico Baracca, whose son had been Franco Baracca, Italy’s top scoring fighter ace of the First World War. Before he was killed in 1918, Baracca had sported, on the side of his French-built SPAD XIII fighter, the Prancing Horse emblem of his squadron. Ferrari was given permission to use this Cavallino Rampante for himself and he placed it on a yellow shield with the green, white and red bars of the Italian national colours above it. This Prancing Horse emblem was to be seen on all of Ferrari’s cars from 1933 as the official badge of the Scuderia Ferrari.
2006-12-07 08:27:03 · answer #1 · answered by Bill P 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Just to add a little more trivia to this since the question mentions both Ferrari and Porsche: I don't believe this was ever confirmed, but is retold from many seperate sources, that Franco Baracca had obtained the horse in the first place from a downed German fighter he saw that bore the Coat Of Arms of the city of Stuttgart, which features an identical prancing horse in the center of it's emblem (the city was famous for horse breeding). The entire coat of arms, horse inlcuded, make up Porsche's logo.
2006-12-11 12:10:28 · answer #2 · answered by Paul S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some guy who was shot down in a war had the prancing horse on his plane. Enzo made that his logo to commemorate the guy's death.
2006-12-09 17:48:56 · answer #3 · answered by King Ferrari 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Enzo Ferrari used to work for Alfa Romero...that symbol different territories at that time....snake & cross
2006-12-07 08:21:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋