Franco Sbarro was born in 1939 in Lecce, Italy, and moved to Switzerland at eighteen, working first as a lathe operator before joining Georges Filipinetti in 1963 to restore vintage cars and build prototypes for the Scuderia Filipinetti. In 1967, with Filipinetti's backing, he set up his own workshop in an old smithy in Grandson, converting Le Mans-winning Ford GT40s into road cars and later performing similar conversions for French…
