Carrozzeria Bertone was founded by Giovanni Bertone in 1912, and gained contracts to build car bodies on Fiats and other Italian cars in the 1920s. He was friends with Vincenzo Lancia and gain contracts to build Lancia bodies. By 1934 son Nuccio Bertone has designed a body for the Fiat 527S which is streamlined and modern and gains a lot of praise. During the 1940s and 1950s Bertone build for Alfa Romeo, Ferrari, Fiat, Lancia, and then in the 1960s gain the striking coontracts from Lamborghini. In the 1970s Bertone gained contracts from Volkswagen and then Citroen. Both Marcello Gandini and Giorgetto Giugiaro worked for Bertone and learned their craft under Nuccio Bertone.